Jorge Ben Jor S/D

this album! begins with one of the absolutest most alltime-enest jams ever.

wow yeah that slays! never heard this record before

Taj Mahal later recorded a song called "Jorge Ben." True!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, February 10, 2003 1:45 PM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is cracking me up.

I just got the s/t from 1969 after having it on mp3 on an old ipod for years and remembered it's one of my favorite albums ever. Just gorgeous. I used to listen to it on the beach over the summer with my wife's family. Like a salve on a hot day.

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The Gil e Jorge album is just the perfect album to groove to and get lost in on the weekend.

been playing a lot of negro é lindo lately, what an album closer "palomaris" is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lriSjRl77A

xp lol at Taj Mahal "Jorge Ben." All the albums mentioned in this revive are fantastic. I'll add one that I don't see discussed much: 10 Anos Depois (1973), which is a series of medleys of his best-known material from the first 10 years of his career, all performed in the early 70s style of the Ben and A Tábua de Esmeralda albums. Basically Jorge Ben megamix, a non-stop samba-rock party

I know a bunch of his albums but not Negro e Lindo. I'll give it a listen this week.

that’s a good one

força bruta is incredible

I listened to Negro e Lindo while on the beach a couple of weeks ago. Perfect music for cooling off while baking in the hot sun.

I'd say Solta o Pavão is the most slept-on classic Ben album of at least several.

negro e lindo is the one from his ultra classic run that i've yet to add to my collection proper. the muhammad ali tribute is alltime.

i heard solta o pavão in passing once and when i was told what it was it just seemed like, "yeah this is predictably badass in that case." still haven't procured a copy of it, for whatever reason.

i love jorge ben so much, i would fall to pieces if i ever saw him perform live

I saw him live in London in the early 00s. A few times he did that medley thing where he appeared to think 'yeah I can chalk off a few favourites here', which to me sounded a bit cheesy and 'Las Vegas years'. But he was charming and it was of course amazing to see this icon on stage.

A few times he did that medley thing where he appeared to think 'yeah I can chalk off a few favourites here', which to me sounded a bit cheesy and 'Las Vegas years'.

That's a pretty good summary of the entire "10 Anos Depois" album. I thought it'd be fun too have all the jams on 1 record, but they don't do justice to the originals at all.

(for my money, Força Bruta is peak JB)

The hits set his audience want to hear [or what he thinks they want to hear] and the golden period in the late 60s/early 70s including Força Bruta, the self-titled one, A Tabua de Esmeralda, Solta.., etc seem to be two different worlds.

i love jorge ben so much, i would fall to pieces if i ever saw him perform live

I'd say Solta o Pavão is the most slept-on classic Ben album of at least several.

― Dexter Holland's Opus (Deflatormouse),

its got some heaters for sure, "cuidado com o bulldog", "para ouvir no radio", "dorothy" top my list

Never even heard of that one! Will have to give it a spin soon.