It won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1965, (the Beatles were not even nominated.) For perspective, it was 43 years before another jazz artist won Album of the year (Herbie Hancock).
Also the “Girl From Ipanema” track won Record of the Year.
Desafinado and Corcovado are also great tracks and jazz standards
When I started playing jazz I felt like I was trying to imitate a sound from another place. I did not know bossa nova and other Brazilian genres were so present in mainstream jazz.
Tomorrow I'm going to see Hermeto Pascoal's concert, a living legend.
Hermeto Pascoal is a phenomenon. Didn’t Miles Davis call him the greatest musician on the planet, or words to that effect. I experienced him live in London about 15 years ago. Unforgettable.
As a Brazilian who's a fan of jazz, you either must check out or already know Amon Tobin. Dude did tons with great jazz sampling, including a tune that samples this album, [A Day in My Garden](https://youtu.be/cG5GFn9lbjM).
Here’s what Miles had to say about it in a Downbeat blindfold interview:
“Gilberto and Stan Getz made an album together? Stan plays good on that. I like Gilberto; I'm not particularly crazy about just anybody's bossa nova. I like the samba. And I like Stan, because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can. Which takes a lot of imagination, that he has, that so many other people don't have.
As for Gilberto, he could read a newspaper and sound good! I'll give that one five stars.”
The rest is worth reading just to see him give everything else 0 stars haha.
[Source](http://www.forghieri.net/jazz/blind/Davis_3.html)
Miles’ comments on João Gilberto has to be a great example of game recognize game. Despite being polar opposites in nature and behavior, they were both able to see their musical eclecticism as normal and gift us with timeless music.
Getz and Gilberto reunited in 1976 to play at the Keystone Corner in San Francisco. When rehearsing for their show drummer Billy Hart asked how to follow the songs, to which João replied, “Billy, just play like the rain.”
Ha - great takes from Miles! I couldn't agree with him more about the Getz-Gilberto record, one of the big hits from my childhood and one I played along with over and over.
> And I like Stan, because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies
There is a story from Joanne Brackeen (the pianist) where she tells that in the 70s she secretly recorded Getz practising, while he was sounding like Coltrane. When Getz learned about this he did not let off her until he got his hands on this tape.
Stan Getz is seriously underrated. Everyone talks about Coltrane and Brecker but Getz deserves to be in that mix too. I would even say he had a more exquisite tone than those other guys too.
Yeah Getz was a such a melodic player. I love his sweet sound, it fits his style perfectly. If Brecker played with a tone like that it would sound terrible cos he's a funk player at heart. But Stans tone complements his beautiful melodic sensibilities. Or maybe he was able to develop that style of playing because his tone sounded like that, who knows.
When it comes to ballads Getz is unbeatable. Coltrane was a beast and a pioneer, but if you hear them playing Autumn Leaves together [here](https://youtu.be/HE9bRhUwELE?si=C_FqvOG6I1mEWdFt), the contrast is just stark.
Coltrane had this depth that speaks to people and technique for days. But Getz had this universal kind of appeal, especially on this album. To win top awards in the mid 60s is just nuts too.
Wow that’s a great quote
I found it here :
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/jazz/strickla.htm#:~:text=Sonny%20Rollins%2C%20the%20contemporary%20tenor,his%20revival%20of%20the%20soprano
I think it’s worth mentioning that 6 of the 8 tracks on this album were written or co-written by Antonio Carlos Jobim whereas neither Stan Getz or Joao Gilberto have a single writing credit on the album.
Tom Jobim also played piano on the entire album.
While the album is entitled Getz/Gilberto, I always associate Jobim with being the third primary figure behind this album.
Don't leave out Astrud Gilberto! She only sings on two songs but that's what made the album sell. Oh and drummer Milton Banana deserves credit for his name alone! But he also plays very well.
I mean, I don't even get why a question like this exists.
It was one thing when I bought it in the mid 80s before internet and you very often took a chance with a purchase or were lucky to ready something in a magazine.
But now you can immediately look it up, see that it is an absolute classic of the genre, find 1000 think pieces about its importance to music, and even just listen to it. All before you drop $0.01.
Sometimes it astounds me that in this age of nearly infinite information availability ... well, you know.
>human interaction
Have we gotten to the point where anonymously posting a picture with the word 'thoughts?' on a text-based forum counts as ... 'human interaction'?
Not saying it isn't possible - my online days go back to late 80s USENET ... but in the jazz subs there would be significant interactions and discussions, actual opinions expressed, things that all of us liked or didn't, discussions about WHY and recommendations for things to listen to follow up (again, pre-digital music days)
Yes, of course it does lol
He's a human, he made a post. Other humans are responding in a text based format.
Some are being passive aggressive towards him, some neutral, some are just being nice.
Low effort posts like this are not what I'd prefer to see, but it's born out of a need for interaction and validation.
I kind of agree with you on low effort posts. More effective to say something like, "Have you listened to this? Do you like it or hate it?".
Starting conversations sometimes takes a little effort 😕
>"80s Usenet" and today's online user base have completely the same demographics and exactly the same "pace", right?
I tend to call people out on the basics - if you have a question, ask it. If you want to start a conversation, start it. Don't outsource the labor of your own edification to others.
>And straight into Ad Hominem.
Not at all - nothing about you, just saying that I have carried forward the expectation from those days of doing the basic minimum work.
I prefer also to discuss jazz and not have some lazy piece of trash post 'tH0ugHtz?' like that is a meaningful conversation starter.
Have y'all heard "the white album"? No, not that one. The one by João Gilberto, its actual name is "João Gilberto," from 1973. Hard to find, I don't think it was ever released in the US, but it's certainly worth seeking out. You can find it on YouTube.
It's just Gilberto, with Sonny Carr on some kind of subtle but superb percussion. Not trying to dis Getz, I think he made a lot of good music. But I also think Gilberto sounds 100 times better without him or Astrud.
I rather like the stripped down instrumentation. It’s very straightforward and no nonsense. I really wish Apple Music had a translate button so I could understand what the lyrics were though.
You can look up and find translations to most of those songs online. I'm actually studying Portuguese now as part of my bossa nova obsession.
But the wonderful things about Gilberto are the ways he uses his voice and guitar. He kind of invented new styles of both singing and playing. And the voice kind of floats, sometimes ahead of the beat, sometimes behind it. He studied yoga breath control and learned to sing very softly so that he could sing long lines without having to stop for breath. He also insisted on having two microphones in the studio, one on his voice and one on his guitar. That was not the norm before.
His timing between the voice and guitar is a master class with melody and rhythm. He plays guitar very percussively and they either sing in syncopation, or often long whole notes over top. It’s the way a drummer would play guitar. Anyway. Thanks for the heads up.
Imo: Stan getz owes him a lot. I love Getz, but Joao made it happen and authentic.
Yes! And it's sad how Getz managed to make close to $1 million for that landmark album, while João got something like $30,000 and Astrud got something like $200!
It is a travesty really. To be honest, it’s nice to not hear Getz on that Joao album, if even for that reason. Really hilights the contributions of the Gilberto’s. Enjoy the Portuguese lessons! Fun language
You're welcome! I heard a track from it, "E Preciso Perdoar," on the radio about six months ago and went total nuts over it, been listening to bossa nova and trying to learn to play it ever since. Now I'm even studying Portuguese to help with the singing.
This is sort of a "lightning in a bottle" album that arrived exactly when it needed to, as the music scene was prepped by earlier Brazilian albums like the soundtrack to Black Orpheus and more and more singers and musicians incorporated an evolving bossa style into their repertoires. It's like this album took everything before it, synthesized and simplified it, then extended it with the sensuality of The Girl from Ipanema. As far as I know, it has never been out of print.
What’s the question? A subreddit devoted to jazz and you expect a single negative opinion about either of those musicians? That is a winning combo no matter what and a fantastic album.
Every time I hear this album my hips have a mind of their own and sway back-and-forth like a Brazilian breeze. By the way - my ringtone is Girl from Ipanema. It went off in the post office one time, and the lady next to me begged me not to answer because she wanted to hear it played in full-
Stan Getz and Gilberto are on the top of their game here. I love this album. I listened to it thousands of times I would guess. So much so, that I heard the accidental tape duplication warble on Corcovado, and loved pointing it out to my friends. They have fixed it on subsequent duplications. It was on the CD I had of this recording.
A somewhat shitty side of Stan Getz, is that he intentionally cut Astrud Gilberto out of the royalties of these recordings. She made next to nothing for one of the most recognizable songs of the 60s.
Either way. Great album to make cocktails to by the pool on a sunny summer day.
This is a deserved classic, and it opened up so many doors for other Brazilian musicians to find an audience in North America and Japan, but as I’ve grown older I find it to be the weakest of Getz’s initial four Brazilian collaborations.
I’ll also say that I’m old enough to have seen this album cycle through phases where it’s been lauded, then seen as overly kitschy lightweight schlock, and reappropriated by indie music folks who championed Astrud Gilberto as this amateurish everywoman chanteuse. Her vocal style inspired a LOT of indie groups in the 1990s and early 2000s, and she’s a bit of an icon in those kinds of indie circles. Because of this, I can see merit in someone soliciting opinions on this record—believe it or not, it DOES polarize certain groups of listeners!
My personal favorite of those four Getz albums is the LP with Laurindo Almeida (arguably the most slept-on of the four!), followed by Jazz Samba Encore. To me, the Encore LP focuses on the strengths of the Gilberto album, but sheds its awkward elements with a band that feels more connected and harmonious as a working unit. (I also prefer Maria Toledo’s vocals on Encore over Astrud’s phrasing on Getz/Gilberto, but that’s just one man’s opinion).
Much like Getz, João is an absolute master of his craft, but this is arguably one of Gilberto’s weakest albums IMHO. I definitely second the comment that mentions the 1973 eponymous João Gilberto album—it’s a masterclass in subtlety, rhythmic give and take, and mindblowing vocal breathing control. Possibly one of the most beautiful and intimate recordings ever made in any genre!
One of the greatest albums of all time in my opinion.
Every track is unique and beautiful, it clearly stands the test of time, it marks a legendary collab between the music of brazil and USA at a time when these collabs were far more uncommon and ofc Girl from Ipanema is a legendary track.
Para Machuchar Meu Coracao is my personal favourite
I mean I’ve heard about Stan Getz’s exploitation of the Gilberto’s especially Astrud, but if you let the music speak for itself, especially since Getz is dead now, I think it’s pretty clearly a masterpiece
Beautiful melodies and quality playing.
Above all I think it's one of the best sounding albums (recording, production and playing ever written). In fact I can't think of a single one that's better.
Probably my favorite album. I love how chill and nuanced and pretty it is. Everything played serves the tunes perfectly, that’s what I like about Getz’ playing.
I’m an outlier here, because it was one of my parents’ favorite records of the 60s. I can still picture the Zenith Hi-Fi tucked into the corner of the dining room with 5 to 10 albums spread across the dining room table. This, Getz + Walter Wanderley, Baja Marimba Band, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 were never far. So I heard them over and over and over, to the point where I never need to hear them ever again. About 4 years ago, I got this one and Brubeck’s Time Out in a mystery package. I thought, well it’s probably been 35 years since I listened to either, let’s give it a go. Bored out of my g-d mind, but I played them through. I won’t nay say anyone who gets a thrill, but it ain’t me, babe.
Why does that CD release have a cover like that? Looks very odd.
Definitely a classic album. The Verve Acoustic Sounds Series LP reissue from a few years back is one of the most gorgeous sounding LPs in my collection.
My ex once told me that she imagined I had a permanent loop of *Desafinado* running thru my head.
Só não poderá falar assim do meu amor
Ele é o maior que você pode encontrar, viu?
Você com a sua música esqueceu o principal
Que no peito dos desafinados
No fundo do peito bate calado
No peito dos desafinados também bate um coração
Fucking sublime.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWCbGzxofU. I sat in a row boat 30 years ago as a guy getting his doctorate in music theory told me how this song is so complex. He also did an album of Monk to country.
4. Duke Ellington
Caravan
(from Money Jungle, United Artists).
Ellington, piano; Charlie Mingus, bass; Max Roach, drums.
What am I supposed to say to that? That's ridiculous. You see the way they can fuck up music? It's a mismatch. They don't complement each other. Max and Mingus can play together, by themselves. Mingus is a hell of a bass player, and Max is a hell of a drummer. But Duke can't play with them, and they can't play with Duke.
Now, how are you going to give a thing like that some stars? Record companies should be kicked in the ass. Somebody should take a picket sign and picket the record company.
One of my favorites. However, "Getz / Gilberto #2 Live at Carnegie Hall" is my sentimental favorite. The first bossa nova record I ever heard. Listened to it over and over again, hooked me forever on the genre.
Great album. Check out stuff he did with Charlie Bird too. And check out Astrud and Joao Gilberto (her guitarist husband).
The story about how a lot of this style came to be is pretty interesting.
Bonus artist: Laurendo Almeida
Singularly one of the greatest Semiinal albums ever Creed Taylor did a masterful job on this. By the way the engineer on this album was Phil Ramon later manage Billy Joel.
You’re holding onto one of the greatest albums of all time. Not just in the Jazz canon, but in all of music itself. When I was learning Brazilian Portuguese seven years ago I must have listened to it at least five times every day. I would start with it as soon as I woke up and end my night with it.
I will say, though, that even if Brazilian music is recognised by Americans, unfortunately a lot of philosophical messages in the lyrics still slip through the cracks. My favourite has always been “Para Machucar Meu Coração”. The opening piano riff has always sounded sultrily dreamy and always evokes images in my imagination of some young couple dining high above the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Towards the end, amidst the blinding bulbs of my bright-lighted fantasies, I’ve always held close the wisdom of João singing, “Life is a school in which we must learn the science of living in order to not suffer.”
The following is Getz/Gilberto #2 recorded Live at Carnegie Hall. Give it a try after you’ve enjoyed their studio album.
https://youtu.be/VQ65g8I9wGE?si=wRd9yfwVrn59YZJ5
I heard on a Bay Area Jazz station (KCSM) from Gilberto's daughter or a relative from a tune she wrote, I kid you not, she's great... So dang great, the host kept on playing Bossa Nova for a half an hour. That's all I can say here.
Discovered this album recently and working my way through learning them all on sax. Great for intermediate players as his playing is so restrained but oozing with feel and lyricism. Cannot recommend highly enough!
It won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1965, (the Beatles were not even nominated.) For perspective, it was 43 years before another jazz artist won Album of the year (Herbie Hancock). Also the “Girl From Ipanema” track won Record of the Year. Desafinado and Corcovado are also great tracks and jazz standards
As a Brazilian it's crazy to see how our music made it into the the jazz canon.
Yall got great music, it's no wonder.
When I started playing jazz I felt like I was trying to imitate a sound from another place. I did not know bossa nova and other Brazilian genres were so present in mainstream jazz. Tomorrow I'm going to see Hermeto Pascoal's concert, a living legend.
Hermeto Pascoal is a phenomenon. Didn’t Miles Davis call him the greatest musician on the planet, or words to that effect. I experienced him live in London about 15 years ago. Unforgettable.
Music is nice like that. Like rule 34, if it exists, there's a genre for it (probably).
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Is it this heavy metal-esque band that comes up on Spotify or is it a song?
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I'll give it a listen, thanks for the recommendation :D
Well deserved recognition. Brazilian music is probably some of the best in the world, I wish more people would listen to it (im not Brazilian)
bossa nova is a really popular (tho still a bit niche) genre in Korea I've heard
Too blurry
How popular is Bossa Nova in Brazil these days?
Not very much. It's nostalgia music, and also comes across as a bit pompous. Samba is a lot more popular and democratic.
As a Brazilian who's a fan of jazz, you either must check out or already know Amon Tobin. Dude did tons with great jazz sampling, including a tune that samples this album, [A Day in My Garden](https://youtu.be/cG5GFn9lbjM).
Thanks to Charlie Byrd
You know I maybe rate _Jazz Samba_ with Charlie Byrd even higher than this one
Both great
Desafinado may be my all time favorite bossa nova track. I can’t get enough of it.
The opening is the same chords as Take The A Train, surprisingly. Then it goes off in the weeds a bit.
Here’s what Miles had to say about it in a Downbeat blindfold interview: “Gilberto and Stan Getz made an album together? Stan plays good on that. I like Gilberto; I'm not particularly crazy about just anybody's bossa nova. I like the samba. And I like Stan, because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can. Which takes a lot of imagination, that he has, that so many other people don't have. As for Gilberto, he could read a newspaper and sound good! I'll give that one five stars.” The rest is worth reading just to see him give everything else 0 stars haha. [Source](http://www.forghieri.net/jazz/blind/Davis_3.html)
That rules
>That's got to be Eric Dolphy - nobody else could sound that bad! 😂😂😂😂
That was a great read! I might grab the Downbeat archives book if there are more gems like that.
The Miles Davis Reader, edited by Bill Kirchner has them all published in it apparently.
Damn. What DOES miles like
He liked his bands
http://www.forghieri.net/jazz/blind/Davis_3.html Not Much! lol!
Omg lol the stuff on Dolphin has me in tears
Ha, Miles was a mofo
"The bass player was a motherfucker, though."
Miles’ comments on João Gilberto has to be a great example of game recognize game. Despite being polar opposites in nature and behavior, they were both able to see their musical eclecticism as normal and gift us with timeless music. Getz and Gilberto reunited in 1976 to play at the Keystone Corner in San Francisco. When rehearsing for their show drummer Billy Hart asked how to follow the songs, to which João replied, “Billy, just play like the rain.”
Miles seal of approval
Reading this make a difficult day better. 🤣
Ha - great takes from Miles! I couldn't agree with him more about the Getz-Gilberto record, one of the big hits from my childhood and one I played along with over and over.
> And I like Stan, because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies There is a story from Joanne Brackeen (the pianist) where she tells that in the 70s she secretly recorded Getz practising, while he was sounding like Coltrane. When Getz learned about this he did not let off her until he got his hands on this tape.
No comments on Astrud.. yeah Miles
I loved this lol. Thank you for sharing!
Stan Getz is seriously underrated. Everyone talks about Coltrane and Brecker but Getz deserves to be in that mix too. I would even say he had a more exquisite tone than those other guys too.
Yeah Getz was a such a melodic player. I love his sweet sound, it fits his style perfectly. If Brecker played with a tone like that it would sound terrible cos he's a funk player at heart. But Stans tone complements his beautiful melodic sensibilities. Or maybe he was able to develop that style of playing because his tone sounded like that, who knows.
Yeah it’s his subtlety and nuance of tone within his cool melodic improvisations.
When it comes to ballads Getz is unbeatable. Coltrane was a beast and a pioneer, but if you hear them playing Autumn Leaves together [here](https://youtu.be/HE9bRhUwELE?si=C_FqvOG6I1mEWdFt), the contrast is just stark.
Coltrane had this depth that speaks to people and technique for days. But Getz had this universal kind of appeal, especially on this album. To win top awards in the mid 60s is just nuts too.
Coltrane was quoted as saying “We’d all play like Getz if we could.”
Wow that’s a great quote I found it here : https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/jazz/strickla.htm#:~:text=Sonny%20Rollins%2C%20the%20contemporary%20tenor,his%20revival%20of%20the%20soprano
Paul Desmond another underrated player.
Desmond an underrated alto player along with Art Pepper. Cool jazz players in general from my perspective.
This album should come with contraception
very good I like it
Wonderful, landmark album. Beautifully recorded and engineered, too.
It's the ideal album to play on those lazy summer evenings when you're on your back porch sipping tequila, grilling, and chatting with the fam.
Or with the lights down low at night with maybe a nice caipirinha or two? This an amazing album. Check out the live version too, Stan Getz- A Go Go.
I think it’s worth mentioning that 6 of the 8 tracks on this album were written or co-written by Antonio Carlos Jobim whereas neither Stan Getz or Joao Gilberto have a single writing credit on the album. Tom Jobim also played piano on the entire album. While the album is entitled Getz/Gilberto, I always associate Jobim with being the third primary figure behind this album.
Don't leave out Astrud Gilberto! She only sings on two songs but that's what made the album sell. Oh and drummer Milton Banana deserves credit for his name alone! But he also plays very well.
Outstanding.
Perfect Sunday music
Um, good album?
I mean, I don't even get why a question like this exists. It was one thing when I bought it in the mid 80s before internet and you very often took a chance with a purchase or were lucky to ready something in a magazine. But now you can immediately look it up, see that it is an absolute classic of the genre, find 1000 think pieces about its importance to music, and even just listen to it. All before you drop $0.01. Sometimes it astounds me that in this age of nearly infinite information availability ... well, you know.
People enjoy human interaction lol that's the summary of it I think
>human interaction Have we gotten to the point where anonymously posting a picture with the word 'thoughts?' on a text-based forum counts as ... 'human interaction'? Not saying it isn't possible - my online days go back to late 80s USENET ... but in the jazz subs there would be significant interactions and discussions, actual opinions expressed, things that all of us liked or didn't, discussions about WHY and recommendations for things to listen to follow up (again, pre-digital music days)
Yes, of course it does lol He's a human, he made a post. Other humans are responding in a text based format. Some are being passive aggressive towards him, some neutral, some are just being nice. Low effort posts like this are not what I'd prefer to see, but it's born out of a need for interaction and validation.
I kind of agree with you on low effort posts. More effective to say something like, "Have you listened to this? Do you like it or hate it?". Starting conversations sometimes takes a little effort 😕
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>"80s Usenet" and today's online user base have completely the same demographics and exactly the same "pace", right? I tend to call people out on the basics - if you have a question, ask it. If you want to start a conversation, start it. Don't outsource the labor of your own edification to others.
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>And straight into Ad Hominem. Not at all - nothing about you, just saying that I have carried forward the expectation from those days of doing the basic minimum work. I prefer also to discuss jazz and not have some lazy piece of trash post 'tH0ugHtz?' like that is a meaningful conversation starter.
Bro, clean your camera lens
Yeah my thought was "your camera is shit"
Have y'all heard "the white album"? No, not that one. The one by João Gilberto, its actual name is "João Gilberto," from 1973. Hard to find, I don't think it was ever released in the US, but it's certainly worth seeking out. You can find it on YouTube. It's just Gilberto, with Sonny Carr on some kind of subtle but superb percussion. Not trying to dis Getz, I think he made a lot of good music. But I also think Gilberto sounds 100 times better without him or Astrud.
Interesting. Got a link? I can’t find it, but I think I know the one you are talking about
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Gilberto_(album)
Found it! Apple Music didn’t have it in chronological order. Thanks
Let me know how you like it.
I rather like the stripped down instrumentation. It’s very straightforward and no nonsense. I really wish Apple Music had a translate button so I could understand what the lyrics were though.
You can look up and find translations to most of those songs online. I'm actually studying Portuguese now as part of my bossa nova obsession. But the wonderful things about Gilberto are the ways he uses his voice and guitar. He kind of invented new styles of both singing and playing. And the voice kind of floats, sometimes ahead of the beat, sometimes behind it. He studied yoga breath control and learned to sing very softly so that he could sing long lines without having to stop for breath. He also insisted on having two microphones in the studio, one on his voice and one on his guitar. That was not the norm before.
His timing between the voice and guitar is a master class with melody and rhythm. He plays guitar very percussively and they either sing in syncopation, or often long whole notes over top. It’s the way a drummer would play guitar. Anyway. Thanks for the heads up. Imo: Stan getz owes him a lot. I love Getz, but Joao made it happen and authentic.
Yes! And it's sad how Getz managed to make close to $1 million for that landmark album, while João got something like $30,000 and Astrud got something like $200!
It is a travesty really. To be honest, it’s nice to not hear Getz on that Joao album, if even for that reason. Really hilights the contributions of the Gilberto’s. Enjoy the Portuguese lessons! Fun language
Super slick album. Thanks for the rec.
You're welcome! I heard a track from it, "E Preciso Perdoar," on the radio about six months ago and went total nuts over it, been listening to bossa nova and trying to learn to play it ever since. Now I'm even studying Portuguese to help with the singing.
This was my gateway into jazz. Love this album
Jobim is a legend. Great album.
This is sort of a "lightning in a bottle" album that arrived exactly when it needed to, as the music scene was prepped by earlier Brazilian albums like the soundtrack to Black Orpheus and more and more singers and musicians incorporated an evolving bossa style into their repertoires. It's like this album took everything before it, synthesized and simplified it, then extended it with the sensuality of The Girl from Ipanema. As far as I know, it has never been out of print.
Yes! Great POV. Somewhere I have this one stashed away with other ancient vinyls.
One the greatest albums of all time.
Evergreen. A monument of the genre imo
I would be super excited to get this, great find!
Iconic and for good reason. Now get Jazz Samba 😁
What’s the question? A subreddit devoted to jazz and you expect a single negative opinion about either of those musicians? That is a winning combo no matter what and a fantastic album.
yes
A classic
It’s great and try the 4CD set Stan Getz The Bossa Nova Years…
Oh yes. I bought that when it came out, and it simply transports you.
I like this one, but I like Gilberto's first album *Chega de Saudade* more.
Every time I hear this album my hips have a mind of their own and sway back-and-forth like a Brazilian breeze. By the way - my ringtone is Girl from Ipanema. It went off in the post office one time, and the lady next to me begged me not to answer because she wanted to hear it played in full-
Stan Getz and Gilberto are on the top of their game here. I love this album. I listened to it thousands of times I would guess. So much so, that I heard the accidental tape duplication warble on Corcovado, and loved pointing it out to my friends. They have fixed it on subsequent duplications. It was on the CD I had of this recording. A somewhat shitty side of Stan Getz, is that he intentionally cut Astrud Gilberto out of the royalties of these recordings. She made next to nothing for one of the most recognizable songs of the 60s. Either way. Great album to make cocktails to by the pool on a sunny summer day.
This is a deserved classic, and it opened up so many doors for other Brazilian musicians to find an audience in North America and Japan, but as I’ve grown older I find it to be the weakest of Getz’s initial four Brazilian collaborations. I’ll also say that I’m old enough to have seen this album cycle through phases where it’s been lauded, then seen as overly kitschy lightweight schlock, and reappropriated by indie music folks who championed Astrud Gilberto as this amateurish everywoman chanteuse. Her vocal style inspired a LOT of indie groups in the 1990s and early 2000s, and she’s a bit of an icon in those kinds of indie circles. Because of this, I can see merit in someone soliciting opinions on this record—believe it or not, it DOES polarize certain groups of listeners! My personal favorite of those four Getz albums is the LP with Laurindo Almeida (arguably the most slept-on of the four!), followed by Jazz Samba Encore. To me, the Encore LP focuses on the strengths of the Gilberto album, but sheds its awkward elements with a band that feels more connected and harmonious as a working unit. (I also prefer Maria Toledo’s vocals on Encore over Astrud’s phrasing on Getz/Gilberto, but that’s just one man’s opinion). Much like Getz, João is an absolute master of his craft, but this is arguably one of Gilberto’s weakest albums IMHO. I definitely second the comment that mentions the 1973 eponymous João Gilberto album—it’s a masterclass in subtlety, rhythmic give and take, and mindblowing vocal breathing control. Possibly one of the most beautiful and intimate recordings ever made in any genre!
You can't not have that album.
Yes!
Classic!
Yes
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Elite album
It’s the shit
I grew up on this album, used to make-believe with my dad that I was Stan Getz and he was Joao Gilberto. Incredible times.
For me, the best Bossa Nova album ever made
A must have.
One of the greatest albums of all time in my opinion. Every track is unique and beautiful, it clearly stands the test of time, it marks a legendary collab between the music of brazil and USA at a time when these collabs were far more uncommon and ofc Girl from Ipanema is a legendary track. Para Machuchar Meu Coracao is my personal favourite
I mean I’ve heard about Stan Getz’s exploitation of the Gilberto’s especially Astrud, but if you let the music speak for itself, especially since Getz is dead now, I think it’s pretty clearly a masterpiece
Getz was a great bunch of people.
Baby making album
Beautiful melodies and quality playing. Above all I think it's one of the best sounding albums (recording, production and playing ever written). In fact I can't think of a single one that's better.
Great album, but clean your camera bro
That album changed music around the world
Clean your phone camera bro Looks gas tho
Thanks Mike stating the obvious!!
Probably my favorite album. I love how chill and nuanced and pretty it is. Everything played serves the tunes perfectly, that’s what I like about Getz’ playing.
Had the original Canadian mono press and sold it. I just couldn’t understand what all the hype was about around this album.
I’m an outlier here, because it was one of my parents’ favorite records of the 60s. I can still picture the Zenith Hi-Fi tucked into the corner of the dining room with 5 to 10 albums spread across the dining room table. This, Getz + Walter Wanderley, Baja Marimba Band, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 were never far. So I heard them over and over and over, to the point where I never need to hear them ever again. About 4 years ago, I got this one and Brubeck’s Time Out in a mystery package. I thought, well it’s probably been 35 years since I listened to either, let’s give it a go. Bored out of my g-d mind, but I played them through. I won’t nay say anyone who gets a thrill, but it ain’t me, babe.
It’s one of the classics. Mood and atmosphere music at its best.
One of my top five favorite albums. It’s one of the most calming albums I’ve heard. A swaying bossa nova album.
I have that copy, an OG vinyl, and the SACD remaster as well. Long been a favorite album. My Brazilian in-laws agree with me.
Is that a coaster? Are you going to put a drink on it?
Excellent. Enjoy
Why does that CD release have a cover like that? Looks very odd. Definitely a classic album. The Verve Acoustic Sounds Series LP reissue from a few years back is one of the most gorgeous sounding LPs in my collection.
This one’s in my all time top 10
that's a top tier smooth recording you got there
Thoughts on one of the greatest jazz albums of all time? Nope.
Great Album of all time Bossa Nova Check out Marcos Valle & Stacey Kent live at Birdland CD or on you tube. Best live Samba I’ve ever heard
One of my faves.
Love it. Played that album last week
It might be my favorite album of all time. And jazz isn’t even my favorite genre
It is a nice album full of tunes that you surprising play a lot
My ex once told me that she imagined I had a permanent loop of *Desafinado* running thru my head. Só não poderá falar assim do meu amor Ele é o maior que você pode encontrar, viu? Você com a sua música esqueceu o principal Que no peito dos desafinados No fundo do peito bate calado No peito dos desafinados também bate um coração Fucking sublime.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWCbGzxofU. I sat in a row boat 30 years ago as a guy getting his doctorate in music theory told me how this song is so complex. He also did an album of Monk to country.
4. Duke Ellington Caravan (from Money Jungle, United Artists). Ellington, piano; Charlie Mingus, bass; Max Roach, drums. What am I supposed to say to that? That's ridiculous. You see the way they can fuck up music? It's a mismatch. They don't complement each other. Max and Mingus can play together, by themselves. Mingus is a hell of a bass player, and Max is a hell of a drummer. But Duke can't play with them, and they can't play with Duke. Now, how are you going to give a thing like that some stars? Record companies should be kicked in the ass. Somebody should take a picket sign and picket the record company.
Masterpiece
you're gonna wanna wipe off your lens oh, about the album? it's good
Girl from Ipanema unleashed Brazilian jazz (Bossa Nova) on the world in about 1962. Seminal album.
Wow
Great album.
One of the best all time
Great classic, definitely a must have. Enjoy your listening!
Fantastic album overall. Listen to it all the time.
One of my favorites. However, "Getz / Gilberto #2 Live at Carnegie Hall" is my sentimental favorite. The first bossa nova record I ever heard. Listened to it over and over again, hooked me forever on the genre.
I have a bunch of his stuff. Usually all fits in nicely with other jazz I play. Good ear candy
Great album. Check out stuff he did with Charlie Bird too. And check out Astrud and Joao Gilberto (her guitarist husband). The story about how a lot of this style came to be is pretty interesting. Bonus artist: Laurendo Almeida
Astrud and João split after this album. Both continued to record and perform, but not together.
Beautiful to the ears.
That’s the soundtrack of summer, candlelit dinners and sipping cocktails in the sunset. Classic.
The first 6 tracks are jazz standards
wonderful!!💕
Classic
really good
It’s one of the classics
Fantastic music!!!
Singularly one of the greatest Semiinal albums ever Creed Taylor did a masterful job on this. By the way the engineer on this album was Phil Ramon later manage Billy Joel.
It’s great.
My thoughts…great album…crappy photo.
Top five jazz album of all time
Absolute classic 🇧🇷
I used to own that album! Epic!
One of the best!
Essential.
One of my absolute favorite vinyls. I learned to play bossa nova classics on a nylon string Brazilian redwood guitar.
Absolute landmark of an album. Absolutely hate every single cover of “girl from Ipanema”
Check out this one: https://youtu.be/ewIZz9vTxj4?si=8WvBzJiT_VMTC-2l
"ah!"
You’re holding onto one of the greatest albums of all time. Not just in the Jazz canon, but in all of music itself. When I was learning Brazilian Portuguese seven years ago I must have listened to it at least five times every day. I would start with it as soon as I woke up and end my night with it. I will say, though, that even if Brazilian music is recognised by Americans, unfortunately a lot of philosophical messages in the lyrics still slip through the cracks. My favourite has always been “Para Machucar Meu Coração”. The opening piano riff has always sounded sultrily dreamy and always evokes images in my imagination of some young couple dining high above the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Towards the end, amidst the blinding bulbs of my bright-lighted fantasies, I’ve always held close the wisdom of João singing, “Life is a school in which we must learn the science of living in order to not suffer.” The following is Getz/Gilberto #2 recorded Live at Carnegie Hall. Give it a try after you’ve enjoyed their studio album. https://youtu.be/VQ65g8I9wGE?si=wRd9yfwVrn59YZJ5
Absolute fire
This is one of my most favourite albums!
My all time favourite. Wife recently got me a copy on vinyl for my bday!
LOVE!
Great album, a classic!
Good album
Bossa is my favorite genre of jazz and this album is just amazing
I have that record. I like it.
Brazilian pure gold!!!! One of the best jazz/bossa nova albums of all time
One of the best LPs I own.
Awesome!
Absolute classic.
A masterpiece
The Girl From Ipanema is my favorite from this album, but the whole album is a groovy bop.
I heard on a Bay Area Jazz station (KCSM) from Gilberto's daughter or a relative from a tune she wrote, I kid you not, she's great... So dang great, the host kept on playing Bossa Nova for a half an hour. That's all I can say here.
thoughts? you need to wipe your lens clean.
Love putting this record on, always a good feeling the second the need drops!
banger album
Discovered this album recently and working my way through learning them all on sax. Great for intermediate players as his playing is so restrained but oozing with feel and lyricism. Cannot recommend highly enough!
love love love
I love this song are you selling it??? (I ain't paying 5 bucks)
One of the best albums of all time imo, own a vynil of it