Sergio Mendez has been with me since the mid 60's, when he started adding that Samba beat to regular 60's tunes-The Look of Love, Fool on the Hill, and i believe his own, Mas Que Nada. But i never knew that he had a purely instrumental album out there, and with Antonia Carlos Jobim to boot. This was part of the Exotic culture that your grandparents were into in the early 60's. My favorite track has to be the Girl From Impanema, practically a standard in the early to mid 60's. This is nice as background music for a quiet dinner party, or if you're just sitting back and reading from your Kindle that you got from Amazon. The liner notes indicate that there was more material that came from this meeting, but was unfortunately destroyed in a NJ warehouse fire in '78, where Atlantic had all their demos and sessions work stored. Pity, because a deluxe version of this would be fantastic!