Aqua do Brasil
Well-Known Member
Dear Mendes Fans,
Although not an A&M release, the 1977 Atlantic/WEA records release ‘PELE’, the soundtrack of the movie about the life of the extraordinary Brazilian soccer legend PELE produced by SERGIO MENDES has a hidden question for me:
In the musicians credits lines, the name CHICO SPIDER is mentioned on keyboards.
I’m not quite sure, but in my humble opinion, it’s SERGIO himself according on his particularly trademark-keyboard sound.
The album is a nice mix of electric fusion West Coast LA ’70, Jazz and Brazilian sounds and some tracks sung by PELE himself along with the great profesional vocal support by GRACINHA LEPORACE.
Great perfomances by the late Jazz Baritone Sax legend Gerry Mulligan, here on soprane sax (very, very rare), and Oscar Castro Neves who set the rhytmic guitar groove all over the place.
Further amongst others, with Jim Keltner on drums, Laudir Soares Oliveira and Steve Foreman on percussion.
Especially the track ‘THE SADNESS OF GOODBYE is a highlight moment for me.
Sergio, a big soccer fan was very into this soccer situation at he mid- seventies of the 20th. century, see the cover on his 1977 Elektra/WEA release ‘SERGIO MENDES AND THE NEW BRASIL ’77’ with Pele as Doctor
on the ‘SOCCER’ cover.
Pele was in these days terminating his great career as a player with
the WEA-NEW YORK COSMOS soccer team.
With kind regards,
Aqua do Brasil
Although not an A&M release, the 1977 Atlantic/WEA records release ‘PELE’, the soundtrack of the movie about the life of the extraordinary Brazilian soccer legend PELE produced by SERGIO MENDES has a hidden question for me:
In the musicians credits lines, the name CHICO SPIDER is mentioned on keyboards.
I’m not quite sure, but in my humble opinion, it’s SERGIO himself according on his particularly trademark-keyboard sound.
The album is a nice mix of electric fusion West Coast LA ’70, Jazz and Brazilian sounds and some tracks sung by PELE himself along with the great profesional vocal support by GRACINHA LEPORACE.
Great perfomances by the late Jazz Baritone Sax legend Gerry Mulligan, here on soprane sax (very, very rare), and Oscar Castro Neves who set the rhytmic guitar groove all over the place.
Further amongst others, with Jim Keltner on drums, Laudir Soares Oliveira and Steve Foreman on percussion.
Especially the track ‘THE SADNESS OF GOODBYE is a highlight moment for me.
Sergio, a big soccer fan was very into this soccer situation at he mid- seventies of the 20th. century, see the cover on his 1977 Elektra/WEA release ‘SERGIO MENDES AND THE NEW BRASIL ’77’ with Pele as Doctor
on the ‘SOCCER’ cover.
Pele was in these days terminating his great career as a player with
the WEA-NEW YORK COSMOS soccer team.
With kind regards,
Aqua do Brasil