Edison Machado & Boa Nova –Edison Machado & Boa Nova

Edison Machado was a revolutionary figure in Brazilian music in the 1960s. In addition to collaborating with Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto and Milton Nascimento, Machado invented the samba no prato, the cymbal-played samba that would become a defining feature of bossa nova. In 1976 he fled from the Brazilian military dictatorship to New York. There, in early 1978, he recorded 80 minutes of music with the short-lived ensemble Boa Nova, which was first released that year on Far Out Recordings. The sextet of Brazilian and American musicians combines the best of both worlds, fusing samba, bossa nova, and hard bop into a rarely heard amalgam.