Joyce

Joyce & Tutty Moreno “Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas”- OUT NOW!

" A fine songwriter whose work has been covered by celebrities from Milton Nascimento and Gilberto Gil. New songs include the charming Compositor where she stretches her vocal range with rapid fire artistry....."
The Guardian
Far Out are proud to announce the release of ‘Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas’ the new album from Joyce, in collaboration with her husband Tutty Moreno.

With ‘Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas’Joyce and Tutty have turned to their samba-jazz roots to create an album that is influenced by the golden-era of bossa-nova and US jazz from the 60s. All tracks feature Joyce on vocals for a mix of high-octane samba-jazz and ethereal bossas with either full lyrics or samba-scats; the latter seeing Joyce hark back to classic tracks such as ‘Feminina'. The album also contains a wonderful new version of the scat-anthem ‘Magica'.
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Joyce is a sophisticated urbanite whose personal musical style was nurtured in Rio’s fertile samba scene and influenced by the jazz sounds of Ella, Miles and Monk, introduced to her as a child. Joyce’s sound has never strayed far from these influences, mellifluously combining Brazilian rhythms, jazz harmonies and intelligent lyrics through a beautiful expressive voice.
‘Samba Jazz and Outras Bossas’ is the latest recording in an incredibly successful career spanning 39 years. She recorded her first album at the age of nineteen and shortly after provoked immediate controversy for its first-person feminine voice never before attempted by any female songwriters in Brazil. Alongside Tropicalist artists of the time, Joyce infused conservative Brazilian music with the spirit of 60s counter-culture, creating bossa nova with a feminist edge that gave Brazilian women the voice they had longed for.
Twenty-six albums later, Joyce has become one of the most respected artists in Brazil, not only as a musician – indeed, her compositions have been interpreted by Brazilian greats; Milton Nasciemento, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil and Astrud Gilberto- but as a novelist (in 1997, Joyce published a collection of memoirs on popular Brazilian music), a newspaper columnist and a TV presenter.Joyce's latest album ‘Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas’ sees her sharing the limelight with her partner in music and life, drummer Tutty Moreno. Joyce and Tutty have turned to their samba-jazz roots to create an album that is influenced by the golden-era of bossa-nova and US jazz from the 60s. All tracks feature Joyce on vocals for a mix of high-octane samba-jazz and ethereal bossas with either full lyrics or samba-scats; the latter seeing Joyce hark back to classic tracks such as ‘Feminina’; the album contains a wonderful new version of the scat-anthem ‘Magica’.
‘Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas’ was produced by Joyce and Tutty themselves and marks a milestone – 30 years – of them working together. Tutty’s dexterous percussive swing has underpinned Joyce’s forays across Brazilian music over the last 30 years, creating one of the most prolific musical partnerships in jazz & Brazilian music.
Described by Antonio Carlos Jobim as “one of the greatest singers of all time”, Joyce sheds a little light on the album: “Samba jazz is a style that grew popular among Rio’s youth in the late ‘60s. It is a mix of bossa and jazz, and it’s the music that nurtured our generation. Samba jazz has always been the base for everything that myself and Tutty have done; if you check some older compositions of mine, such as 'Feminina', written in 1977, that's pure samba-jazz, and on this CD we have brought this vibe to the fore again.”