title: Batucada (Walter Wanderley album)
text: # Batucada (Walter Wanderley album)
  
  Batucada is a 1967 album by Brazilian musician Walter Wanderley. Batucada refers to a fast and repetitive style of samba music played with percussion instruments and is used as an intro on the third track, "Batucada."
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  John Bush of AllMusic described Wanderley's organ sound as "veer[ing] close to the edge where cool jazz becomes easy listening," but said that "fans of Wanderley's work on Astrud Gilberto's A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness will enjoy this as background music."
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
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  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  
  ## Use in media
  
  The song "Os Grilos (The Crickets Sing for Anamaria)" was used in an episode of Breaking Bad titled "Hermanos."
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Walter Wanderley – organ, piano
  * Jose Marino, Sebastian Neto – bass
  * Acy R. Lehman – cover design
  * Irv Elkin – cover photo
  * Val Valentin – Engineering Director
  * Dom Um Romao, Paulinho – Drums
  * Lee Herschberg, Rudy Hill – Recording Engineer
  * Marcos Valle – Guitar
  * Marcos Valle (tracks: side one - 3, 5; side two - 1, 4,), Walter Wanderley (tracks: side one - 2; side two - 2, 3, 5, 6) – Mixer, Arranger
  * Lu Lu Ferreira – Percussion
  * Creed Taylor – Producer
  * Claudio Miranda (tracks: side two - 5), Talya Ferro (tracks: side two - 3, 5) – Vocals
  