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Getz/Gilberto
Studio album by 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
Professional reviews
Allmusic link
Stan Getz and João Gilberto chronology
Getz/Gilberto (1964) 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.

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 Astrud Gilberto, who sang on the track "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado", into an international sensation.

Contents 1 Reception 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 4 External links 5 References

[edit] 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. 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.

[edit] Track listing

For the 1997 Verve Records CD Reissue , 521414

1. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Antonio 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" – 2:54
10. "Corcovado" – 2:20

Tracks 9 and 10 are the single versions, released as bonus tracks with the 1997 reissue.

[edit] 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,^[1][2] and Dori Caymmi as composer of "Doralice".^[3]

[edit] External links

• Remembering Antonio Carlos Jobim - several issues of "Getz/Gilberto" are pictured on this site, along with other information on this recording.

[edit] References

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