AUDIOPHILE REISSUE
• MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOG TAPES
• GATEFOLD SLEEVE PRINTED
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One of the biggest-selling jazz albums of all time, not to mention bossa nova's finest moment, Getz/Gilberto trumped Jazz Samba by bringing two of bossa nova's greatest innovators -- guitarist/singer João Gilberto and composer/pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim -- to New York to record with Stan Getz. The results were magic. Ever since Jazz Samba, the jazz marketplace had been flooded with bossa nova albums, and the overexposure was beginning to make the music seem like a fad. Getz/Gilberto made bossa nova a permanent part of the jazz landscape.
PERSONNEL:
STAN GETZ, tenor sax
JOAO GILBERTO, guitar, vocals
ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM, piano
SEBASTIÃO NETO, bass
MILTON BANANA, drums
ASTRUD GILBERTO, vocals
Recorded at A&R Studios, New York City, NY, March 18 & 19, 1963.