Getz/Gilberto
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Getz/Gilberto is a jazz bossa nova album released in 1964 by the American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, and featuring composer and pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim. Its release created a bossa nova craze in the United States and internationally. It brought together Stan Getz, who had already performed the genre on his LP Jazz Samba, João Gilberto (one of the creators of the style), and Jobim, a celebrated Brazilian composer (and also one of the main creators of the genre), who wrote most of the songs in the album. It became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, and turned Astrud Gilberto, who sang on the tracks "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado", into an internationally celebrated musician.
Reception
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It won the 1965 Grammy Awards for Best Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental Album - Individual or Group and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "The Girl from Ipanema" also won the award for Record of the Year in 1965. This was the first time a jazz album received Album of the Year. It was the last jazz album to win the award until Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters 43 years later, in 2008.
JazzTimes (11/94, pp. 88–89) - "...essential for all serious jazz collections...served as proof that it is possible for music to be both artistically and commercially successful...this relatively sparse setting with the great Getz perfectly fit the music, resulting in a true gem..." Vibe (12/99, p. 158) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century. In 2003, the album was ranked number 454 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as one of the 100 best Brazilian albums in history.[3]
Track listing
For the 1997 Verve Records CD Reissue, 521414.
| # | Title | Songwriters | Length |
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| 1. | "The Girl from Ipanema" | Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel | 5:24 |
| 2. | "Doralice" | Dorival Caymmi, Antonio Almeida | 2:46 |
| 3. | "Para machucar meu coração" | Ary Barroso | 5:05 |
| 4. | "Desafinado" | Jobim, Newton Mendonça | 4:15 |
| 5. | "Corcovado" | Jobim, Gene Lees | 4:16 |
| 6. | "Só danço samba" | Jobim, de Moraes | 3:45 |
| 7. | "O grande amor" | Jobim, de Moraes | 5:27 |
| 8. | "Vivo sonhando" | Jobim | 3:04 |
| 9. | "The Girl from Ipanema" (45 rpm issue) | Jobim, de Moraes, Gimbel | 2:54 |
| 10. | "Corcovado" (45 rpm issue) | Jobim, Lees | 2:20 |
Tracks 9 and 10 are the single versions, released as bonus tracks with the 1997 reissue.
Personnel
- Stan Getz - tenor saxophone
- João Gilberto - guitar, vocals
- Antonio Carlos Jobim - piano
- Sebastião Neto - bass
- Milton Banana - drums
- Astrud Gilberto - vocals (in "The girl from Ipanema", "Corcovado", "The girl from Ipanema (45 rpm issue)" and "Corcovado (45 rpm issue)")
Reissues incorrectly list Tommy Williams as bassist,[4][5] and Dori Caymmi as composer of "Doralice".[6]
References
- ^ Simons, David (2004). Studio Stories - How the Great New York Records Were Made. San Francisco: Backbeat Books..Cf. especially, pp.60-61.
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "Os 100 maiores discos da música brasileira" (in Portuguese). Umas Linhas. 2007-12-20. Retrieved 2009-04-20.
- ^ Castro, Ruy, 1990. Chega de Saudade - A História e as histórias da bossa nova, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, ISBN 85-7164-137-4 (Recording session photos showing bassist Sebastião Neto)
- ^ [1] (Liner notes by Arnaldo deSouteiro from a 2004 compilation, mentioning incorrect listing - PDF file)
- ^ Dorival Caymmi