tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750183527845564120.post8230311470167958420..comments2023-06-29T11:27:48.193-07:00Comments on The Brazilian Sound: Another Side of Jazz Samba: An Interview with Buddy DeppenschmidtUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750183527845564120.post-50072509489856809452015-11-18T01:31:47.989-08:002015-11-18T01:31:47.989-08:00What an absolute hoot it is to find your article o...What an absolute hoot it is to find your article on Deppenschmidt!<br />It was sheer happenstance that I discovered, in the mid 80s that there was more to Brazilian music than Bossa Nova. I was living in Boston when MPB grabbed me by the throat. In very short order I had a large collection of LPs, culled from shops in Allston, Rio and DC, and started taking Portuguese courses to find out what those beautiful sounding lyrics meant. Soon, I made friends with Dennis Miller who did a weekly show on WERS, the Emerson College radio station, feeding him with material for his show, and getting free tickets to all the visiting MPB stars’ shows in exchange. I like to think that I had a role, however modest, in promoting Brazilian music in Boston. Dennis was gracious enough to acknowledge my contribution on his final show. <br />Of course, I bought your book! And Perrone’s too.<br />A decade later I found myself in the cultural backwaters of Pennsylvania, in Doylestown, with hundreds of MPB LPs and CDs and no one to share this trove with. At the time my neighbor Curt was taking drum lessons with a local teacher and one day threw a party for him. I was introduced to his teacher as the fellow crazy about Brazilian music. That’s when Buddy Deppenschmidt told me the story about how he got corralled into the session that produced Getz’s earliest Bossa Nova recordings. Curt had been plying us with beers and while my conversation with Buddy was definitely under the influence I remember that evening well. In gratitude, I rushed home and returned with your book. Buddy thumbed through it and, on impulse, I said, “Keep it - it’s yours.”<br />I am guessing that your interview with Buddy transpired several years later - a decade perhaps - enough time, at any rate, for Buddy to have forgotten how he came to have a copy of The Brazilian Sound. I doubt that he made the connection between me and his interviewer. As I said, we’d had a few beers that night. I did enjoy your book before I gave it away; I thought the giving was an apt gesture.<br />Narayan Acharya<br />Doylestown, PA<br />18 Sep 2015narayannoreply@blogger.com