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 | Title : Getz/Gilberto
Author : Getz
Release Date : 19970520
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $17.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Originally released in March 1964, this collaboration between saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Joćo Gilberto came at seemingly the end of the bossa nova craze Getz himself had sparked in 1962 with Jazz Samba, his release with American guitarist Charlie Byrd. Jazz Samba remains the only jazz album to reach number one in the pop charts. In fact, the story goes that Getz had to push for the release of Getz/Gilberto since the company did not want to compete with its own hit; it was a good thing he did. Getz/Gilberto, which featured composer Antonio Carlos Jobim on piano, not only yielded the hit 'Girl from Ipanema' (sung by Astrud Gilberto, the guitarist's wife, who had no professional experience) but also 'Corcovado' ('Quiet Night')--an instant standard, and the definitive version of 'Desafinado.' Getz/Gilberto spent 96 weeks in the charts and won four Grammys. It remains one of those rare cases in popular music where commercial success matches artistic merit. Bossa nova's 'cool' aesthetic--with its understated rhythms, rich harmonies, and slightly detached delivery--had been influenced, in part, by cool jazz. Gilberto in particular was a Stan Getz fan. Getz, with his lyricism, the bittersweet longing in his sound, and his restrained but strong swing, was the perfect fit. His lines, at once decisive and evanescent, focus the rest of the group's performance without overpowering. A classic.
Buyer Reviews :
To date, this review has been helpful 26 of 27 times.
A college friend recommended this album to me. He said he didn't think I would go wrong with it, that it was pretty good. I had no idea what it was, or who Jobim, Getz, or Gilberto were, but I figured his recommendation was as good as the reviews I read on the backs of the album covers for music I had never heard, so I bought it. That was over 30 years ago and I still listen regularly to this 'Getz/Gilberto' album......I don't understand a word of the Portuguese but the music is as fresh today as it was back then. It continues to touch my soul and smooth me (especially after a day with lots of rough edges), it lifts me, it soothes me and bathes me in warmth and hope. It is light, whimsical, deep, and beautifully balanced rhythmically.
Thank God for CD's; the old vinyl disc was worn so badly. I listen and I want the music to go on forever; and for me, so far, it has.
'Quiet nights of quiet stars, quiet chords from my guitars, floating on the silence that surrounds us, quiet thoughts and quiet dreams, quiet walks by quiet streams,and the window that looks out on Corcovado...'
This music brings me ageless pleasure, and...as we (the music and I) recede farther and farther from 1963, its velvety chords just getter better and better.
'Oh, how lovely . . . '
(by jiminsequim)
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