Artist:Stan Getz f/Joao & Astrud Gilberto
Song:The Girl From Ipanema
Album:The Essential Stan Getz:The Getz Songbook
Like a lot of classic jazz artists, it's impossible to cover tenor sax great Stan Getz' career with one CD. I've talked about his Roost recordings of the early 50s. This comp covers his recordings on Verve. There's a few Verve comps out there. Just be sure it includes this 1963 smash The Girl From Ipanema that basically legitimized the Brazilian Bossa Nova movement. Getz had recorded the 1962 album Jazz Samba with guitarist Charlie Byrd. As a follow up, Getz & producer Creed Taylor brought Brazilian guitar legend Antonio Carlos Jobim and singer Joao Gilberto to New York to record Getz/Gilberto. Taylor decided to add Astrud's English lyrics at the last minute. The song was a huge worldwide hit and is still very fresh today. Getz could have lived off this song the rest of his career but didn't. He continued to make great music for years. The only way to explain something like The Girl From Ipanema is sometimes musicians go into the studio and magic happens. Don't try and figure it out.
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