Classic 1960s Bossa Nova, recorded just after the genre was grafted into Am… Read Full Bio ↴Classic 1960s Bossa Nova, recorded just after the genre was grafted into American Jazz.
Antonio Carlos Jobim who was practically the inventor of Bossa Nova, wrote the song, and plays piano on this recording. Joao Gilberto, the co-creator of Bossa Nova plays guitar and sings in Portuguese on the track.
Joao's then wife Astrud Gilberto joins with a superb chorus with her under-stated trademark of vibrato-less latin sexy sound, in English. Then we get choruses from Stan Getz who takes the piece to the end. Getz played with superb feeling for the Latin jazz fusion without trying to stamp too much pure American jazz onto it. So it was a respectful mix of the two separate worlds.
There was some ill feeling on the part of the Brazillian musicians in the years after Bossa Nova, as they felt the purity of their national music heritage was being "sold out" to American commercial interests. Maybe it did and probably because it lent a little on the Pop Music world for popularity but even so the genre has lasted superbly, and is considered a key part of the evolution of jazz. In fact, the album Getz/Gilberto won album of the year in 1965, and was the final jazz album to receive this award until Herbie Hancock's Joni Mitchell tribute in 2008. (Exceptions for vocal jazz winners, including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Norah Jones).
Antonio Carlos Jobim who was practically the inventor of Bossa Nova, wrote the song, and plays piano on this recording. Joao Gilberto, the co-creator of Bossa Nova plays guitar and sings in Portuguese on the track.
Joao's then wife Astrud Gilberto joins with a superb chorus with her under-stated trademark of vibrato-less latin sexy sound, in English. Then we get choruses from Stan Getz who takes the piece to the end. Getz played with superb feeling for the Latin jazz fusion without trying to stamp too much pure American jazz onto it. So it was a respectful mix of the two separate worlds.
There was some ill feeling on the part of the Brazillian musicians in the years after Bossa Nova, as they felt the purity of their national music heritage was being "sold out" to American commercial interests. Maybe it did and probably because it lent a little on the Pop Music world for popularity but even so the genre has lasted superbly, and is considered a key part of the evolution of jazz. In fact, the album Getz/Gilberto won album of the year in 1965, and was the final jazz album to receive this award until Herbie Hancock's Joni Mitchell tribute in 2008. (Exceptions for vocal jazz winners, including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Norah Jones).
The Girl From Ipanema
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@maycanlas6665
Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes Each one she passes goes, ah
When she walks, she's like a samba
That swings so cool and sways so gently
That when she passes Each one she passes goes, ah
Oh, but he watches so sadly
How can he tell her he loves her
Yes, he would give his heart gladly
But each day, when she walks to the sea
She looks straight ahead, not at him
Tall, and tan, and young, and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes He smiles, but she doesn't see
Oh, but he sees her so sadly
How can he tell her he loves her
Yes, he would give his heart gladly
But each day, when she walks to the sea
She looks straight ahead, not at him
Tall, and tan, and young, and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes he smiles, but she doesn't see
She just doesn't see, no she just doesn't see
But she doesn't see, she doesn't see, no she just doesn't see
@abelincoln3287
What a lovely vision she was and a unique and beautiful voice. She had a shy and timid presentation, and still delivered a classic performance. RIP
@diegoacuna4493
🕊
@bigballermakingmyends2797
😥😥😥
@oliviahackshaw5267
yes,just heard of her passing and playing this in memoriam
@jerryschneider145
A beautiful soul. Rest in peace.
@jimreese696
Well said.
@tomcat3360
1964. I was 9, listening to AM radio—The Beatles, The Stones, Motown—then this piece of magic floated above it all.
@gerrynightingale9045
I was ten...and it was "Okay, I guess" if anyone asked me
( I was too focused on anything/everything in '64 to appreciate 'cool jazz samba' as I listened and watched and read EVERYTHING then! )
Stephen Hawking would've been a 'dolt' standing next to me...then
( Now that's long passed, and my life came to nothing as I wait for the end )
@gerrynightingale9045
@@tomcat3360 *When I think on it, and look back, my life was a 'Tree that bore
no fruit, nor gave shade' and in my judgment I call that 'NOTHING'*
I was and am 'still here' (for a bit longer) and that too will amount to nothing more than "I was alive and now I am not"
@gerrynightingale9045
@@tomcat3360 There's no point in feeling 'sorrow' for me, and as for 'touching many lives,' I did that as an Ambulance EMT in Detroit
For me personally, my life was far more "Look Back In Anger" now than anything else
*I 'allowed' the boy I once was to be 'shunted-aside' as I became older, the boy that knew no limits on his abilities, and instead practiced the 'Venial Sins' as 'worthy pursuits' *
To paraphrase Yeats "I came upon a Man at the side of the Road/ Eating his Heart and Weeping/ and asked/Friend, why do you eat/and he replied/"Because it is bitter/Because it is my Heart"
This 'sums-up' my life quite well