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MORELENBAUM2/SAKAMOTO
Casa
(Sony Classical)
Conceptually, at least, this project sounds like a dream come true: Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Japanese pianist of impeccable musical taste with a natural adoration for the frothy rhythms of Brazil, visits the Rio de Janeiro home of the late Antonio Carlos Jobim, the ultimate composer of the bossa nova genre.
Sakamoto sits at Jobim's piano and performs some of the master's more obscure nuggets, joined by two of Jobim's closest collaborators and current bearers of...