Fresh from the sudden success of and asked the 28-year-old, strikingly gifted to arrange a album for big band as a follow-up. is always his debonair, wistful, freely-floating self, completely at home in the Brazilian idiom that he'd adopted only a few months before. usually keeps things nice and spare (although is uncharacteristically cluttered and a bit too discordant for the material), letting his pungent voicings stab the air now and then, while allowing the soloists all the room they want within the confines of producer 's tight timings. Four of the eight songs are by (none of which would become standards), and makes relaxed impressions with takes the role of acoustic guitarist from with his usual fluidity, and ruminates in a boppish way on piano. This album also charted quite respectably (number 13) in the first flush of the boom. ~ Richard S. Ginell