| Kicking Cans | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Dori Caymmi |
| Cover: | Kicking Cans.jpg |
| Released: | 1993 |
| Label: | Qwest[1] |
| Producer: | Dori Caymmi |
| Prev Title: | Brazilian Serenata |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Dori Caymmi: 2 Em 1 |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Kicking Cans is an album by the Brazilian musician Dori Caymmi, released in 1993.[2] [3] "Brasil (Aquarela Do Brasil)", featuring Herbie Hancock, was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Jazz Instrumental Solo".[4] [5]
Kicking Cans was produced by Caymmi. Herbie Hancock, Billy Childs, and John Patitucci contributed to the album.[6] [7] Branford Marsalis played a saxophone solo on "Migration". Caymmi, who wrote eight of the album's songs, scats on the title track.[8] [9]
The Los Angeles Times wrote that "throughout the recording, Caymmi's intimate voice and romantic guitar establish a haunting presence."[10] The Sun-Sentinel determined that "Caymmi exquisitely showcases his feathery voice, which hovers gracefully over sumptuous, spacious Brazilian-flavored jazz arrangements."[11] The Huntsville Times noted that "Caymmi's signature sound is his soft, floating tenor, accented by sparkles of his acoustic guitar."[12]
The Virginian-Pilot called Caymmi "a versatile, consistently inventive tunesmith ... to his credit, he has shown no tendency to contemporize his sound with modernistic cliches."[8] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette stated that "Caymmi's chanting vocals ride on a wave of melodic acoustic guitar and light percussion, a style common to northeast Brazil."[13] The Lewiston Tribune deemed Caymmi "silken and sublime," writing that "the songs are expressions of moods and feelings not defined by words."[14]
AllMusic wrote that "the shifting time signatures and skewed melodies conspire to keep the listener comfortably off balance—the music goes where it has to go, like a river meandering lazily through a rain forest."[6]