CD 1 [79:22]

Gramophone Company, Paris

20 June 1928

Brazilian Columbia, Rio de Janeiro

early 1930

Gramophone Company, Paris

26 September 1933

Liberty Music Shop, New York

RCA Victor, New York

1941

*The unpublished Liberty Music Shop recordings contained here were originally recorded on lacquer-coated aluminum discs. These unique test discs were in private hands for many years but have now apparently been lost. Fortunately, a magnetic tape transfer of the discs was made in the 1970s which we have used for this issue. We hope that the original discs survive somewhere.

The following selections are re-recorded from copies in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence C Witten II, the Yale Collection of Historical Sound recordings, Yale Music Library: Tracks 7 and 8

Accompaniment: Tracks [1-4] with Lucilia Guimarães Villa-Lobos, piano; [5 and 6] with Gaó, Zezinho, Jonas, and Chaves; [7] with Gaó, Zezinho, and Jonas; [8] with Gaó, Zezinho, Jonas, and Petit; [9 and 11] with Carlitos and his Brazilian Orchestra; [10] unaccompanied; [12] with unidentified percussionist; [13] with unidentified guitarists; [14-20] with unidentified pianist; [21 and 22] with Cy Walter, piano, and ensemble; [23-41] with Pablo Miguel, piano

Languages:
Portuguese [1-9, 11, 13-14, and 23-34];” dialect of the Makumba religion [10, 12, 15]; Spanish [16, 18, and 35-41]; Galician Portuguese [17]; French [19-21]; English [22]