Like many a listener, Resonance founder George Klabin was bewitched when he heard Milton Nascimento’s singing voice for the first time. Introduced to him by Airto and Flora Purim when they were playing at a small NYC club, Klabin learned that the young man was in town to record at Rudy Van Gelder’s legendary New Jersey studio. Issued in 1969 on CTI Records, the resultant album was Courage, a classic-in-the-making (Klabin’s all-time favourite, in fact) featuring Herbie Hancock and orchestral arrangements by Eumir Deodato. Now, fifty-six years after its release, renowned clarinetist Eddie Daniels offers a fresh re-take of Courage, his third tribute album to a Brazilian music icon after earlier ones focusing on Egberto Gismonti and Ivan Lins.

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