On Bossa, Jazz ânâ Samba, São Paulo, Brazil-based singer Patty Ascher presents a collection of 11 exquisite songs in English and Portuguese, in collaboration with Brazilian music legends Roberto Menescal, Dori Caymmi, and many others.


11 MP3 Songs in this album (38:16) !
Related styles: Jazz: Bossa Nova, Latin: Brazilian Jazz, Solo Female Artist

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Singer Patty Ascher and her expert crew of Sao Paulo,
Brazil-based sidemen led by music director Marco Ponte and production
supervisor Marco Menescal expertly navigate the sensuous territory of
Bossa, Jazz ânâ Samba in ten Patty Ascher originals, and the classic
evergreen The Summer Knows.
⢠Pattyâs version of The Summer Knows by Marilyn & Alan Bergman and Michel
Legrand has an arrangement by Dori Caymmi, a Brazilian singer, guitarist,
songwriter, arranger, and producer who is a two-time Grammy Award winner.
⢠Doriâs arrangement is a tribute to another inspiration in Pattyâs
career, the French pianist and composer Michel Legrand, who has won 3
Oscars and 5 Grammys. Patty has already toured with him in Brazil twice,
in 2008 and 2009, and further US dates together will be announced shortly.

Brazilian singer Patty Ascher has a bachelor's degree in Literature from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, but she always had music in her life: her father Neno was part of a very successful Brazilian band from the 70s, Os Incríveis (The Incredibles). In 2007, Patty released her debut album: Bacharach Bossa Club. The album featured famous Burt Bacharach songs recorded by Patty with bossa nova arrangements and was a best seller at Uol â the biggest internet portal in Brazil. Her first album was released around the world, including the US.
In both September 2009 and 2010, Patty performed at Feinsteinâs, the exclusive supper jazz club in the Loews Regency Hotel on Park Avenue in Manhattan. On Labor Day 2010, Patty also appeared at legendary comedian Jerry Lewisâ MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association) Telethon, a 21 hour-long fundraising event which is broadcast from Las Vegas to over 170 stations throughout the US.
Patty Ascherâs new album, released in Brazil under the title Deu Jazz no Samba, but in the rest of the world by ZOHO as Bossa, Jazz ânâ Samba, is a collection of 11 exquisite songs, with Patty singing both in English and Portuguese. She wrote most of the songs with co-writers Marco Pontes. Many great Brazilian musicians participate in this album, and Patty explains that it is kind of a tribute recording to them.

âWe have so many talented musicians in Brazil, so we thought about making Bossa, Jazz & Samba as a tribute to these brilliant musicians. For me, itâs an honor to be able to have so many of these incredible players in our teamâ, says Patty.

With the talent, personality and elegance of Dori Caymmi, Amilson Godoy, Jota Morais, Eduardo Lages, Gilson Peranzetta, Aluisio Pontes, Cristovão Bastos - some of the great names, and arrangers who participate in this recording â and Pattyâs one-of-a-kind voice, the result is an album filled with pop and jazz, bossa and samba, and a handful of latin ballads.
Roberto Menescal â a famous Brazilian songwriter and jazz guitarist and Patty Ascherâs mentor - is the production supervisor on this new album. Menescal, with Antonio Carlos Jobim a founding father of the Bossa Nova genre in the late 1950s and 60s, has performed and composed in a variety of Latin music genres, including Brazilian pop, Música Popular Brasileira, and Samba. He was also nominated for a Latin Grammy for his work with his son's bossa group Bossacucanova in 2002. In addition to his role as production supervisor, he also plays his distinctive âbossa-jazz-guitarâ in Sunrise: an English version, with English lyrics written by Patty, of the Brazilian song Amanhecendo, composed by Lula Freire and Roberto Menescal.
On the albumâs opening track, Springtime, Patty comments, âI wrote this song when were coming from a gig in Chicago, in 2008: Whatâs âJazz ânâ Sambaâ? Well, here is our answer â this is what this song is all about.â
The Summer Knows by Marilyn Alan Bergman and Michel Legrand has an arrangement by Dori Caymmi, a Brazilian singer, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and producer who is a two-time Grammy Award winner. His arrangement is a tribute to another important musician and inspiration in Pattyâs career, the French orchestra conductor, pianist and composer Michel Legrand, who has won 3 Oscars and 5 Grammys. Patty has already toured with him in Brazil twice, in 2008 and 2009, and is looking forward to being back on stage with him in the near future.
Another song of special importance to Patty is How Much I Care: âI wrote this song when we went to see famous comedian Jerry Lewis in Saginaw, Michigan. We traveled 15 hours non-stop just to be there, halfway through the world literally â¦It was pure magic to see him, my childhood idol, a man from the golden age of Hollywood. I was thrilled to be asked to perform in his MDA Telethon in Las Vegas later.â
About her song Saudade, Patty explains, âIn Portuguese, we have this very special word saudade. You canât really translate it into any other language â the closest in English might be âhomesicknessâ or âlongingâ - thatâs why we wrote this soft and warm Bossa Nova to musically express its meaning.

The last two songs on the album, Talvez (âMaybeâ) and Pela Manha, are both sensuous ballads sung by Patty in Portuguese, with the latter song developing a powerful, string orchestra- and vocals-driven climax, before the strings appear to be fading into spaceâ¦.
Patty Ascher & Joachim âJochenâ Becker

Recorded at Gravodisc Studios, São Paulo, Brazil. Strings recorded at Estudio do Gato, São Paulo, Brazil. Mixed and mastered at Estudio do Gato, São Paulo, Brasil. Production supervisor: Roberto Menescal. Produced by Marco Pontes & Patty Ascher. Photographer: Paulo Cabral. Photography Coordinator & Styling: Keith Takarashi. Special thanks to Fause Haten and Valerio Araujo. Package design: Jack Frisch. Executive producer of ZOHO CD release: Joachim âJochenâ Becker.