A1 	Este Seu Olhar 	
A2 	Lamento 	
A3 	Lobo Bobo 	
A4 	Siete Notas de Amor 	
A5 	El Reloj 	
A6 	Hô-Bá-Lá-Lá 	
B1 	The Diary 	
B2 	Stupid Cupid 	
B3 	My Heart Sings (Ma Mie) 	
B4 	Adios 	
B5 	Quizás, Quizás, Quizás 	
B6 	Perfidia

Walter Wanderley was a talented and gifted organist with an acute ear for new harmonies. With 46 recorded solo albums in his entire career, both in Brazil and the U.S., he reached number 26 on the Billboard pop charts in September 1966, opening a large pathway of success only menaced by himself and his complex character. Ten years after his death from cancer, with a new fad coming, he was repackaged by the entertainment industry as a mere lounge player, carrying his record sales even further and sending the cost of his out-of-print albums to the stratosphere, but all at the cost of minimizing his significance. It is forgotten that the time lag worked against him and what today is lounge music was then innovative and revolutionary. With all those fans of samba-canção divas feeling personally insulted by those percussive rhythms reminiscent of a Brazilian black tradition that was not dear to the average Brazilian, it has to be stressed that the bossa nova movement, and Wanderley within it, had the role of affirming Brazilian identity in a broader cultural industry which was developed out of the folkloric redoubts. In fact, he also has an upbeat production full of that energy provided by his distinctive staccato stuttering style, immediately reminiscent of authentic Brazilian rhythmic and percussive impetus. He also improvised extended melodic solos without reheated licks, but that was obviously also left out of his most popular albums.

At five, he was already playing the piano. At 12, he attended the Licee of Arts for a year of theory classes, later studying harmony and arranging. Beginning his professional career while still in Recife, a most lively city with a vibrant cultural life, he worked every night either at the piano or at the organ. At 26, in 1958, he moved to São Paulo and immediately became an active player in nightclubs such as the Claridge, the Captain's Bar, and Oásis. Wanderley's first recording was in August 1959 for Odeon, with Carlos Lyra's "Lobo Bobo." Backing his wife, Brazilian singer Isaurinha Garcia (with whom he had a daughter, Monica), he recorded for the second time one month later. At that time, he was Garcia's accompanist and arranger. ---Alvaro Neder, allmusic.com

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01 - Cried, Cried (Chorou, Chorou)       play
02 - Take a Chance with Me
03 - A Different Beat (featuring Luiz Henrique)
04 - Mar Amar
05 - So Nice (Summer Samba) (featuring Astrud Gilberto)
06 - Beloved Melancholy (Saudade Querida)
07 - Errinho à Toa
08 - Here's That Rainy Day (featuring Astrud Gilberto)
09 - Você e eu
10 - In My Automobile (featuring Luiz Henrique)
11 - It Hurts to Say Goodbye             play
12 - It's a Lovely Day Today (featuring Astrud Gilberto)
13 - Sensuous
14 - O Menino Desce o Morro
15 - Cabaret (featuring Luiz Henrique)
16 - On the South Side of Chicago
17 - Menino das Laranjas
18 - Minha Saudade

Back in the dim and proverbially misty days of antiquity when CDs were the latest newfangled thing, I found Walter Wanderley's album Rain Forest on the Verve label. His signature juicy, fat Hammond organ sound, smack in the middle of the great bossa nova tradition, delighted me. The album quickly became a favorite.

For all these years I've been looking for a worthy sequel to RAIN FOREST. There was a collection from Verve that came out to ride the "cocktail music" wave that sloshed through, 10 or 20 years ago now, but it didn't suit. (I'm sorry to admit it, but I'm not especially charmed by his Fender Rhodes playing.) There was a collection of recordings Mr. Wanderley made in Germany (if I recall correctly), but those tunes lacked the polished pop production and arrangement that had helped make RAIN FOREST so much fun.

Finally this HAMMOND BOSSA FROM BRASIL album has hit the sweet spot. There are tunes I've never heard before and all the polished poppiness any fan could ask. In the iTunes era, I haven't even heard the whole album yet, much less made it a dear friend, but every time one of the cuts has come up on my "Fresh" playlist, I've been delighted. So I think this one, finally, is the album which for all these years we RAIN FOREST fans have been waiting. ---Steve Smooth, amazon.com

Walter José Wanderley Mendonça was born in Recife/Brazil in 1932. At the early age of 5 he started taking lessons at the piano, at age 12 studying musical theory. Well before he was out of his teens he moved to São Paulo and began his musical career playing the piano. Only some time later Walter found the organ to be his favorite instrument. He adopted samba and bolero rhythms and interpreted well known songs in his own melodic and harmonic way.

Brazil in the early 60's discovered the bossa nova - a huge wave swept over the country, and also Walter Wanderley was enlightened by this fever. He got one of the leading bossa nova musicians, made recordings with João Gilberto in 1961 and much more on his on. It was Tony Bennett who persuaded Walter to take off for New York in 1966. Bossa nova artists like Stan Getz, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto had provided their label Verve with huge successes. Wanderley joined in and became the Boss of the Bossa Nova. One of his songs, "Summer Samba", reached no. 26 on the pop hit ladder.

In the course of the 70's, the bossa nova fever found its end, and also the career of Walter Wanderley. He died, nearly forgotten, in San Francisco/USA on 04 september 1986.

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