Jorge Ben Jor S/D

Do it. Just uh skip something in the future to justify the $80 plus

Searched "jorge ben" on twitter and recent tweets were divided between those loving the NYC show, and those complaining about how much they hate B.B. King's club in NYC where Jorge played. The folks who book that place also book the Howard Theatre in D.C. (with high prices at both)

Couldn't make it and don't love that place. Last time I went was years ago to see the Yardbirds with Mr. Fine Wine whose childhood friend was in the band, so I got to meet Giorgio Gomelsky and Jim McCarty. Had no such connection for this show.

Why no NPR concert (like Bill Callahan) or NPR Tiny Desk Unit show (like lots of indie folks) for Jorge Ben. C'mon Bob Boilen

I've never heard "O Bidu: Silencio no Brooklyn" or his s/t 1969 album, but apparently they're both hella wild and very free sometimes.

I just heard this album and while it doesn't get very free or wild, it sounded wonderful. His singing is GREAT, cooler and chill (not quite as dense as a lot of his other stuff I've heard, less syllables per bar). And the texture of his voice has this wonderful grain to it, a perfect rough/smooth balance (maybe due to the production? the overall sound of the album is great, if a bit rough). And the songs are catchy as hell.

this album = O Bidu

That is a great tune, and his vocal delivery is marvelous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bjIRHGNGHQ

o bidu is the missing link tween samba-era jorge and what came later, a more important listen than '69's s/t imo

supposedly there's two v diff mixes of that album floating around but I've never been able to track down the dry mix (t'other is heavily reverbed)

He sings on a track on the recent Natalia Lafourcade album. Its her tribute to Agustin Lara album, and their rendition of the cut has a bit of a Brazilian feel to it. I don't know Lara's music (his prime was 1930 to 1960s) and I haven't tried to find other versions to compare. But its good to see Ben in the public eye (at least the Latin rock public eye if not crossover with US or UK or elsewhere)

Dusty Groove has Africa Brasil back in stock and reasonably priced:
http://www.dustygroove.com/item/700774

Still waiting on those other reissues. . .

His best record in my opinion but many prefer A Tábua de Esmeralda

BENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
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get at me when this is ready

whoa huge jpg

I know. They're saying August now.

x-post -Not in stock anymore:

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Played Jorge doing "Taj Mahal" on the Spotify playlist at my wedding reception this past weekend....It made me very happy

Congrats.

Which version?

I recall grabbing a short one from a comp I think

man that doesnt help there are like 5 versions of taj mahal

does it start with 4 on the floor and a horn section and some cuica?

chill out dude's on his honeymoon

actually it's really crucial and time sensitive that we know exactly which version he played. curmudgeon?

JORGE BEN IS RLY IMPT TO ME

Bear up, m bison

Played Jorge doing "Taj Mahal" on the Spotify playlist at my wedding reception this past weekend....It made me very happy

good drunk song

Back in stock for $13.99 + postage:
https://www.dustygroove.com/item/700774

(along with a few other great JBJ titles)

thanks

Those Dusty Groove reissues that were listed for August no longer show up in search results on the site.

Sorry. Maybe they'll get more back in soon (Japanese editions). Glad I jumped on and bought Africa Brasil while it was available.

Back when I covered Luaka Bop's 21rst Anniversary collection, I started off by thinking out loud about this Ben song, one of my all-time faves by anybody anywhere; any comments on its (and his) back story etc. would be welcome:

Is "Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)" really about where slaves
arrived in Brazil? Or did I just expand a mental legend over the
years, trying to explain and contain the unsettling, unsettled poise
and expanse of Jorge Ben's rolling, grinding samba soul classic?
Literally, it's about soccer, but the key line "um ponta de lan a
Africano" doesn't match the title ("Point of the African Lance",
ouch!), and the line's translation---"an African point man" (also "Um
ponta de lan a decidio", " A man whose mind is made up")—is pretty
pointed too. Word to Brazil's 60s junta, and to its polite society,
which has long tended to insist that Brazilians aren't hung up on
race. But it sounds like big Ben's got all of the above and something
else on his mind, that he's listening to, listening for. Sounds like
he's still listening.
The restless example of Ben (who could have played it safe, with
respectably salt-of-the-earth pop star status established early)
further schooled Beleza Tropical, the reputation-making debut release
on Luaka Bop, the New York City label founded by David Byrne in 1988
Beleza… arrived like a ship from post-bossa nova Brazil, mostly filled
with discreetly fabulous and accomplished descendants of the
tale-telling, refugee gamesters in Boccaccio's Decameron. The crew of
Beleza… can mostly be ID'd as members and fellow travelers of the '60s
Tropicalia movement, who had been exiled or isolated because of yadda yadda; he's the point man get it.

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.

https://tomhull.com/ocston/blog/

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),