| Kicking Cans | ||||
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| Released | 1993 | |||
| Label | Qwest [1] | |||
| Producer | Dori Caymmi | |||
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Kicking Cans is an album by the Brazilian musician Dori Caymmi, released in 1993. [2] [3] "Brasil (Aquarela Do Brasil)", featuring Herbie Hancock, was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Jazz Instrumental Solo". [4] [5]
Kicking Cans was produced by Caymmi. [6] Herbie Hancock, Billy Childs, and John Patitucci contributed to the album. [7] [6] [8] Branford Marsalis played a saxophone solo on "Migration". [9] Caymmi, who wrote eight of the album's songs, scats on the title track. [10] [11]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [7] |
| MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide |  [6] |
The Los Angeles Times wrote that "throughout the recording, Caymmi's intimate voice and romantic guitar establish a haunting presence." [12] The Sun-Sentinel determined that "Caymmi exquisitely showcases his feathery voice, which hovers gracefully over sumptuous, spacious Brazilian-flavored jazz arrangements." [9] The Huntsville Times noted that "Caymmi's signature sound is his soft, floating tenor, accented by sparkles of his acoustic guitar." [13]
The Virginian-Pilot called Caymmi "a versatile, consistently inventive tunesmith ... to his credit, he has shown no tendency to contemporize his sound with modernistic cliches." [10] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette stated that "Caymmi's chanting vocals ride on a wave of melodic acoustic guitar and light percussion, a style common to northeast Brazil." [14] The Lewiston Tribune deemed Caymmi "silken and sublime," writing that "the songs are expressions of moods and feelings not defined by words." [15]
AllMusic wrote that "the shifting time signatures and skewed melodies conspire to keep the listener comfortably off balance—the music goes where it has to go, like a river meandering lazily through a rain forest." [7]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Migration" | |
| 2. | "Forever Lover and Friend" | |
| 3. | "It's Raining (At Buriti Farm)" | |
| 4. | "From the Sea" | |
| 5. | "Brasil (Aquarela do Brasil)" | |
| 6. | "Kicking Cans" | |
| 7. | "Spring" | |
| 8. | "Northeast" | |
| 9. | "Hurricane Country" | |
| 10. | "My Countryside" |
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