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Getz/Gilberto Vol.1: Remastered | 
| Artists: Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim
Label: Verve
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 14753
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 521414
UPC: 731452141422
EAN: 0731452141422
ASIN: B0000047CX
Release Date: May 25, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Girl From Ipanema - Getz, Stan & Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim/Astrud Gilberto | | • | Doralice - Getz, Stan & Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim | | • | Para Machuchar Meu Coracao - Getz, Stan & Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim | | • | Desafinado - Getz, Stan & Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim | | • | Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) - Getz, Stan & Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim/Astrud Gilberto | | • | So Danco Samba - Getz, Stan & Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim | | • | O Grande Amor - Getz, Stan & Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim | | • | Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer) - Getz, Stan & Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim | | • | Girl From Ipanema - Getz, Stan & Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim/Astrud Gilberto | | • | Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) - Getz, Stan & Joao Gilberto/Antonio Carlos Jobim/Astrud Gilberto |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Originally released in March 1964, this collaboration between saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Joao 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. --Fernando Gonzalez
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 A pivotal album of the 20th Century October 25, 2008
Antonio Carlos Jobim goes down with Lennon/McCartney, Gershwin, Amstrong as one of the most influential songwriter/stylists of the 20th century.
To judge the album on its own merits is one thing. Getz turns in small but perfectly formed solos. Astrid Gilberto's voice is ravishing, complementing husband Joao's voice with that incredibly restrained vulnerability that is the essence of Bossa. It is an album of incredible tenderness and instrospection. The studio atmosphere is very intimate with an almost homespun quality. For me its a five star album in its own right.
However, this album has a far larger significance, in the way that Sargeant Pepper did. It changed everything and set off ripples that are still reverberating today.
Each of these songs have been covered thousands of times by thousands of artists and continue to be a top staple for jazz as its played all over the world. They have spilled over from jazz into other mediums. They introduced the wider world to the music of Brazil. Arguably the earlier Getz/Byrd, album put Brazil on the wider musical map but it was this album that exposed it in all its exotic glory.
Brazil is a land in which there are as many genres of music as there are in the rest of the world put together. The influence of Jobim and Bossa and their quintessence as captured in these songs, on this album, continues to be a point of departure and return for any number of musical offshoots in their home country, and beyond, to this very day.
From a musicological point of view the impact of this album is unprecedented. There is no other album which has so vividly alerted such a huge proportion of the world to what was going on in a previously little known lesser part of the world, the repercussions of which are still playing out, with vivacity and freshness, almost fifty years later.
 Sax Max June 2, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bossa Nova was and is not to everybody's taste. Many jazz aficianados can't stand Astrud Gilberto's singing either. The thing with this session in particular, however, is Stan Getz's playing. There is only one word for it - divine! Which is why I suspect there are so many accolades for this CD. The brevity and melodiousness of his ideas is quite exceptional, not so on many other examples of his work before or after.
I love jazz and I like this, but I can't say I can listen to Bossa Nova all the time. Stan Getz on this CD, however, I don't think I'll tire of...
Getting in the groove December 31, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Great album for bossa nova. Fun to listen and get in the groove of dreaming of Brazil.. or mellow enough to have in the background for a wine party.
Getz/Gilberto May 6, 2004
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I think you either have an innate love of this sort of music built in or it is something that will be totally lost on you ...if its there and you stumble across it you will never look back..
I already had 7 of the tracks on other cd's but the three i did'nt have are absolutely enchanting and worth the price on their own.
I could listen to this a thousand times and find something new in Stan Getz's incredible intonation every time.
If you hav'nt heard this stuff before,if you have an open mind,like walking on a deserted beach just where the sea meets the sand,if you love living ...you might just love this...
The best Bossa Nova there is.Mark
Pure Cool February 26, 2004
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've been listening to jazz for about 5 years now and wanting to broaden my taste i thought this would be a good direction to go. And what a direction to go!! The album has the ever popular Girl From Ipanema but the more i listen to it, the more i fall in love with the beauty of the other songs. Stan Getz ability is beyond words, as goes for Jobim on the guitar. The voices of Joau and Astrud Gilberto round the album off superbly causing you to hum and sing with them. This album has shown me there is more to bossa nova than i thought. So buy it, and then sit back, close your eyes and think of Brazil!!!
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