Getz/Gilberto

Infobox Album | Name = Getz/Gilberto
Type = Album
Artist = Stan Getz and João Gilberto


Released = March 1964
Recorded = March 18 and 19, 1963
Genre = Jazz, Bossa Nova
Length = 39:21
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Creed Taylor
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7pdkylm8xpvb link]
Last album =
This album = "Getz/Gilberto"
(1964)
Next album = "Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2"
(1964)
"Getz/Gilberto", is a jazz bossa nova album released in 1964 by the American saxophonist Stan Getz and the Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, and featuring composer and musician Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Album information

Its release created a bossa nova craze in the United States, and subsequently 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 songwriter (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 times, and turned singer Astrud Gilberto, who sang on the track of "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado", into an international sensation.

Reception

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 Best Record of the Year in 1965. This was the first time a Jazz Album received Album of the Year. Another Jazz Album didn't win until 2008 when Herbie Hancock's won the award some 43 years later.

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.

Track listing

For the 1997 Verve Records CD Reissue , 521414
# "The Girl from Ipanema" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) – 5:24
# "Doralice" (Dorival Caymmi, Antonio Almeida) – 2:46
# "Para Machucar Meu Coração" (Ary Barroso) – 5:05
# "Desafinado" (Jobim, Newton Mendonça) – 4:15
# "Corcovado" (Jobim, Gene Lees) – 4:16
# "Só Danço Samba" (Jobim, de Moraes) – 3:45
# "O Grande Amor" (Jobim, de Moraes) – 5:27
# "Vivo Sonhando" (Jobim) – 3:04
# "The Girl from Ipanema" – 2:54
# "Corcovado" – 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

Reissues incorrectly list Tommy Williams as bassist, [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)] [ [http://www.bjbear71.com/Wanderley/Other-pdfs/Trip-to-Brazil-1/Trip-7.pdf] (Liner notes by Arnaldo deSouteiro from a 2004 compilation, mentioning incorrect listing - PDF file)] and Dori Caymmi as composer of "Doralice". [ [http://www.allbrazilianmusic.com/en/artists/Artists.asp?Status=ARTISTA&Nu_Artista=186 Dorival Caymmi ] ]

External links

* [http://bjbear71.com/Jobim/tom.html Remembering Antonio Carlos Jobim] - several issues of "Getz/Gilberto" are pictured on this site, along with other information on this recording.

References