Walter Wanderley: Feelings

Brazil’s Greatest Hits, Crescendo GNP S-2137 The most successful instrumentalist of the bossa nova movement, Wanderley had a huge Top 40 pop hit with “Summer Samba,“ from his Verve album, Rain Forest. Although he had hits in Brazil from the early 60s on, Wanderley (pronounced “Von-der-LAY“) was at the tail end of the bossa nova wave for U.S. audiences. World Pacific and Capitol licensed his Brazilian recordings for U.S. release, but it wasn’t until he moved to the U.S. and Creed Taylor signed him to Ver