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The Western motif on the double-fold album jacket -- with
in costume -- signals this as another companion album to a TV special. But there is a deeper significance to this LP, for shortly after its release, a burned-out, personally troubled
disbanded
and retired from music for awhile. Indeed, stretches of this record reveal a tired group and a leader whose trumpet has lost much of its old zip. Even so, as on all
albums, there are several gems -- the stunning shifts in texture and tempo that enliven the worn-out
the chugging bluegrass-tinged arrangement of
"The Little Train of the Caipira" that masquerades under the name of the title track, a haunting rendition of
"I'll Be Back," the fast samba treatment of "Anna."
and
contribute an occasional orchestration, and
does a modest vocal turn on the lush "You Are My Life." But this time, the old sales magic was gone;
had suddenly become unhip in polarized 1969. ~ Richard S. Ginell