Tropical Postcards Explained

Tropical Postcards
Type:	Album
Artist:	Roseanna Vitro
Cover:	Tropical Postcards.jpg
Released:	June 8, 2004 ^[1]
Recorded:	Charlestown Road Studios, Hampton, N.J.^[2]
Genre:	Vocal jazz, Brazilian jazz
Length:	61:43
Label:	A Records SAAL73244 ^[3]
Producer:	Paul Wickliffe, Roseanna Vitro
Chronology:	Roseanna Vitro
Prev Year:	2001
Next Title:	Live At The Kennedy Center
Next Year:	2006

Tropical Postcards is the 9th album by jazz singer Roseanna Vitro, released in 2004 by A Records, an imprint of Challenge Records International. Brazilian jazz and popular music predominate, with seven of the album's eleven tracks provided by Brazilian composers (one by Edu Lobo and two each from Jobim, Milton Nascimento, and Ivan Lins), plus one familiar standard – Sammy Fain's I'll Be Seeing You – performed as a bossa nova .

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 3½ stars; describing it as "among her best, most inspired and memorable projects," reviewer Alex Henderson cites Vitro's willingness to depart from the "all-standards-all-the-time" formula:

Vitro -- true to form -- also surprises us with some gems that jazz vocalists haven't paid nearly as much attention to, including Tom Harrell's "Terrestris" and Ivan Lins' "I Just Need Your Kisses." Clearly, Vitro is smart enough to realize that a song doesn't have to be a Tin Pan Alley warhorse to have value, and she knows how important it is for a jazz vocalist to put his/her stamp on some lesser known pearls.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Song of the Jet" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) - 5:43
2. "Land of Wonder (Terrestris)" (Tom Harrell, Cheryl Pyle) - 6:49
3. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) - 3:54
4. "Certas Canções" (Milton Nascimento) - 5:25
5. "Kisses" (Ivan Lins, Vítor Martins, Alan and Marilyn Bergman) - 5:31
6. "I Just Need Your Kisses" (Ivan Lins, Vítor Martins, Paul Wickliffe) - 5:21
7. "Reza" (Edú Lobo, Ray Guerra) - 5:53
8. "I Remember You" (Victor Schertzinger) - 3:50
9. "Wave" (Jobim) - 5:30
10. "Cravo e Canela" (Nascimento) - 5:52
11. "In Search of My Heart" (McCoy Tyner, Roseanna Vitro) - 7:55

Personnel

• Roseanna Vitro – vocals
• Kenny Werner – piano, arrangements
• Joe Lovano, Don Braden – tenor saxophone
• Chieli Minucci – guitar, electric guitar
• Dean Johnson, Robert E. Bowen – bass
• Cecil Brooks III – drums
• Mino Cinelu – percussion

With special guestsTrio da Paz (on tracks #1, 3, 5, 9):

• Romero Lubambo – guitar
• Nilson Matta – bass
• Duduka da Fonseca – drums, percussion

Notes and References

1. Henderson, Alex. "Roseanna Vitro: Tropical Postcards" AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
2. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/812989105 "Tropical Postcards (Music, 2004)"
3. http://www.roseannavitro.com/?page_id=26 "Discography"