This was weird. I got home from the beach today and had some chores to do, so I put on one of many of the go-to after beach records that I dig. The record was the 1964 collaboration with Stan Getz and João Gilberto, appropriately named Getz/Gilberto. It's jazz mixed with bossa nova, with a line up that features Getz on sax, Gilberto on guitar and vocals, Antonio Carlos Jobim on piano and Gilberto's wife Astrud on vocals on two songs. It's like a supergroup. Seriously folks, if you don't own any other Brazilian or bossa nova titles, this is one you should get. Though it's one of the best selling jazz LPs of all time, it's not really jazz. It's not straight up bossa nova either. But it's great, a mid-sixties pool party classic. Mad Men era chill music.
What was weird about picking that album to play was that, while I was listening to it, I took a break to check the news headlines online. Fuckin' A, João Gilberto passed away today at the age of 88. Head scratchers hear me, it's like losing the Chuck Berry of bossa nova.
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Listen:Stan Getz and João Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema mp3 at Caipirinha Lounge with Antonio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto
Stan Getz and João Gilberto - Corcovado mp3 at Caipirinha Lounge
João Gilberto - Bim Bom mp3 at Sadko Martin Considered by some the first bossa nova song.
Stan Getz and João Gilberto - O Grande Amor mp3 at Il Tafano
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