A wonderful mix of MPB and Brazilian pop music is what we get on Carol Saboya's fourth release Presente. After impressing everyone with the duo album dedicated to the music of Jobim (Janelas Abertas with friend of the family, guitarist Nelson Faria), Carol Saboya again delivers a welcome piece of music. Saboya (born in 1975) has never been a stranger to music. Being the daughter of composer, arranger and pianist Antônio Adolfo, she has been exposed to music (bossa, jazz) during her youth. A few years in the United States (1989 - 1991) added to her musical education. As her main influences Carol names Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Diane Krall among the North American singers and Elis Regina and Zizi Possi among the Brazilians. It's no compliment for the Festival da Música Brasileira that her participation stayed unnoticed (singing the powerful choro-canção "Imaginária" by Suely Mesquita e Mário Sève, with her father's arrangement). This time the singer invited Ricardo Silveira to be the musical director. And what a wonderful job he did! The arrangements are the best possible for her beautiful voice. The repertoire was chosen with care. The album's opener is the João Donato/ Lysias Ênio composition "Vento no Canavial/ Sugar Cane Breeze," delightful swinging and confirming already that this cd can't be bad. Perfect instrumentation with acoustic guitar (Silveira), piano (Luiz Avellar), acoustic bass (André Rodrigues), drums (Renato Calmon) and Armando Marçal on percussion.