| Rain Forest | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Walter Wanderley |
| Cover: | Walter Rain Forest.jpeg |
| Released: | September 1966 |
| Recorded: | May 16–17, 1966 |
| Studio: | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 34:05 |
| Label: | Verve V6-8658[1] |
| Producer: | Creed Taylor |
| Chronology: | Walter Wanderley |
| Prev Title: | Cheganca |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness |
| Next Year: | 1966 |
Rain Forest is a 1966 album by Walter Wanderley. It contains the pop crossover hit "Summer Samba", which reached No. 26 on the US Hot 100; the album itself reached No. 22 on the Top LPs chart.[2]
Billboard magazine reviewed the album in their September 3, 1966 issue and wrote that the "young Brazilian organist plays superbly" and that ""Summer Samba" has the power to pull this delightful package right up the LP chart".[3]
Judith Schlesinger reviewed the reissue of the album for Allmusic and wrote that the album "does evoke strong water images, like "poolside" and "ice skating rink."" and that the listener is "catapulted straight back to the '60s when bossa nova was new in the U.S. and everyone wanted a piece of it". Schlesinger commented that the shortness of the songs left the "jazzmen...underutilized", but praised Urbie Green's work on "Rain" and "Beach Samba".
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