Sérgio Mendes — North Sea Jazz Festival, 2008

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Why this recording

A month after Encanto, the follow-up to his will.i.am collaboration Timeless, Sérgio Mendes played the Nile hall at Rotterdam's Ahoy on 11 July 2008. The chapter list posted by the festival's archive channel mixes Jobim standards (“Agua de beber”, “One note samba”), “The look of love” and “Mas que nada”, which arrives at the 55-minute mark, before “Tristeza” closes the show. Four singers surround him, including Gracinha Leporace, his wife and stage partner since the early 1970s.

— Simon Janvier, live-sound professional and editor of the catalogue

Recording technical sheet

Rights-holding channelNorth Sea Jazz Archive
Source statusOfficial — broadcaster or organiser
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Exact runtime
ResolutionHD (720p+)
Source qualityProfessional (multi-camera)

Metadata checked on YouTube on 29 September 2026; direction, camera setup and sound documented by the editors.

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Published on September 6, 2026 by Simon Janvier

Full concert by Sérgio Mendes filmed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam in 2008. The Brazilian musician and composer (1941–2024), who did more than anyone to popularise bossa nova and samba with Western audiences, delivers a sunlit live full concert blending Latin, bossa, samba and Brazilian pop. Backed by a band rich in percussion and voices, he revisits his great hits, including the essential Mas Que Nada, as well as his Brazilian reworkings of standards. An elegant bandleader and refined melodist, Mendes brings Brazilian rhythms, groove and warm harmonies into dialogue in a festive atmosphere. This high-definition capture, made on one of the world’s biggest jazz stages, conveys the infectious joy of his music and his innate sense of tropical swing. A live concert perfect for lovers of Latin music, bossa nova and Brazilian sounds, paying tribute to a major 20th-century artist, captured in the Netherlands in 2008, a few years before his passing in 2024. A warm, uplifting full concert.

Setlist

  1. E Menina (Hey Girl)
  2. Lugar comum
  3. Roda
  4. Agua de beber
  5. One note samba
  6. Ela é Carioca
  7. Malaguena
  8. Surfboard
  9. Berimbau / Consolação
  10. Instrumental
  11. The frog
  12. The look of love
  13. Let me / Deixia
  14. Mas que nada
  15. Funky bahia
  16. Tristeza

Personnel & credits

  • Sérgio Mendes — piano, keyboards, conductor
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