An Elis Regina Trove

A friend gave me an original copy of the DVD "Elis Regina: MPB Especial--1973" complete with booklet -- what a treasure! If you search for it on amazon, as of 8/30/09, 2 are available from amazon's mom-&-pop alliance sellers @ approx $60. Well worth it. Also, the boxed set 3 DVD collection "Elis" is available off/on the same way for $80-100. Elis was just a musical goddess, an amazing musical gift, such a voice and passion, plus the quality of those who performed with her. And now comes another gift to us all, her daughter Maria Rita, whose CDs "Maria Rita" and "Segundo" are just knockouts. The DVDs of these are treasures too, to watch her perform along with her spectacular band. Brazil's MPB is truly the world's music.

I think this DVD is available through sambastore.com.

paulo braga on drums and luisão maia on bass.

These are delightful, thank you. I've been wishing for some of these.

We need an anthology of Elis,an appropriately comprehensive recorded collection including items such as these elusive tracks. I'm thinking of her work with Toots Thielmanns, for example.

Drummer is the great Paulo Braga, bassist's name escapes me ("Luizino...")... Lucky me, I bought this DVD in a shop in Copacabana in 2006, when its sister DVD (going by the title "Carvallo Costa", and also originally a Brasillian TV show in full, this time in colour and with a larger band, also directed by C.C. Mariano) had just come out, brand new, on the same label. All of Rio de Janeiro (it was the talk of the town), it seemed, was utterly knocked out and thrilled that it had become available. Me too!

This is a treasure trove of the real thing. There is something special in real Brazilian music -- notably from that era -- that has a wonderful and sensual passion and a lush harmonic sense, yet is free and unpretentious about it. Thanks for the heads-up, Doug!

Those are amazing--thanks Doug!