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Three questions...

1) Who or what the heck was "Moacir Santos Maestro"?

2) What and where is the building on the cover of this album??

3) What in the hell is this doing on Blue Note???

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It's the Brazilian Parliament in Brasilia. Architect was Oscar Niemeyer:

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Three questions...

1) Who or what the heck was "Moacir Santos Maestro"?

2) What and where is the building on the cover of this album??

3) What in the hell is this doing on Blue Note???

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1) Moacir Santos was one of Brazil's greatest musicians with an extraordinary career, he wrote some of the most beautiful music I ever heard. I cherish each and every one of his recordings. He was rooted in Brazilian popular music but incorporated classical and jazz influences. The quality of his tunes was praised by the jazz musicians who encountered them. "Maestro" was the title of the LP.

2) that building is the National Congress in Brasilia, the country's capitol. This archictectural masterpiece was designed by Oscar Niemeyer.

3) Blue Note went "beyond" in the late 1960's, so why not? I'm glad these albums exist.

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