Rafael Hanuman

This guy is obscure to me.

I was at a Sebus. Do you know what that is?

It was a place that sold old books and records for enthusiasts.

If someone couldn’t import a desired record from a label’s catalog, they would go to Sebus.

It was a pure treasure-hunting activity. People went into Sebus without knowing what they would find.

And one day, at a Sebus in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, I found Ed Motta, rummaging through the rare records there.

I had played a little saxophone, and in Brazil, there were no options; the closest thing to jazz was his music.

Ed Motta had emerged as Tim Maia’s nephew, he had a breakthrough, then a downfall, and later went abroad to find success.

At that time, I think people liked him in Brazil as much as they do today, which is to say, not much. And he wandered around without much disturbance.

So I asked him what he would recommend internationally. And he recommended this album, DONALD FAGEN: THE NIGHTFLY.

Listen: this is sophisticated.