Brazil Song (Cancões Do Brasil)

Brazil Song (Cancões Do Brasil) is the 20th album by American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy.

In his book A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald pointed out that Murphy dedicated his late nightclub sets to Brazilian rhythms in his Birdland engagements.

[2] In the liner notes to Brazil Song, he told Michael Bloom, "We've lost the great era of singer/songwriters and the Broadway stage.

"[3] Also in the liner notes Murphy writes about his experience visiting a museum dedicated to Carmen Miranda "who personally brought the Samba (her country's gift to popular music) to the USA and the world".

Murphy dedicated the album to her and to "Elis Regina, the greatest of the contemporary Brazilian singers - who brought us so much joy and excitement and died much too soon" who "must be mentioned in this dedication as well, as must my two new favorite Brazilian lady singers.

"[3] The recording was made with a San Francisco-based group, Viva Brasil, who Murphy found to be authentic interpreters of Brazilian songs.

[5] Authour Will Friedwald said, “When it comes to the bossa nova, no other American jazz singer can touch Murphy”.