Stacey Kent Jim Tomlinson So Nice
Stacey Kent Jim Tomlinson So Nice Songwriters Norman Gimbel, Marcos Kostenbader Valle, Paulo Sergio Kostenbader Valle Album Brazilian Sketches Released date April 22, 2003 Recorded date April 1314, 2001 Label Candid Producer Jim Tomlinson Personnel Jim Tomlinson (tenor saxophone), Stacey Kent (vocals), Colin Oxley (guitar), John Pearce (piano), David Newton (piano), Simon Thorpe (double bass), Chris Wells (drums) So Nice ( also known as Summer Samba or its original Portuguese title, Samba de Verão ) is a 1966 bossa nova song by Brazilian composer Marcos Valle, with Englishlanguage lyrics by Norman Gimbel; the original Portuguese lyrics came from Paulo Sérgio Valle, brother to the composer. The song was first popularized by the Walter Wanderley Trio in 1966 the album Rain Forest on which it was issued reached platinum status in 197, also reaching the Listening chart in versions by Johnny Mathis, Vikki
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