Stan Getz Featuring Joao Gilberto The Best Of Two Worlds

180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl! Pressed at Pallas in Germany!
This 1976 album by mature saxophonist Stan Getz is a reunion with Joao Gilberto, the great guitarist and singer from Brazil, and the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (or Tom Jobim), based on the elegant and unobtrusive arrangements of Oscar Carlos Neves. The trio Getz / Gilberto / Jobim changed the world of music in the early 60s with the Getz / Gilberto albums, and with Neves it came almost as well. However, with the decline of music culture in the mid-70s - fusion, disco, sultry rock and the lack of innovation in jazz - this LP did not receive the attention it deserved. The four were accompanied in their realization of modern bossa novas and sambas by drummers Billy Hart and Grady Tate, percussionists Airto, Ray Armando and Ruben Bassini, bassist Steve Swallow, pianist Albert Dailey and the singer of the English lyrics, Heliosoa Buarque de Hollanda, as a replacement for Astrud Gilberto - who was not invited to the sessions and would probably have declined anyway.
Jobim, whose compositions had reached such a level of sophistication that he was simply unassailable, had decided to write his lyrics in English (as had songwriter Gene Lees) - and this is actually the enchanting thing about this album. That wasn't natural for Jobim, nor was it easy for him, but it sounds like it was. Jobim's poetry in songs like "Waters of March," accompanied by Getz's lush romantic saxophone tone and Gilberto's sentimental nylon string guitar, is so sensual that it exudes heat and humidity. Elsewhere, e.B. in the Lees/Jobim co-composition "Double Rainbow", Gilberto's vocals shift soft bossa nova to the center of American jazz phrasing, building a bridge so light and movable that it can never be undone. But there is also fiery samba, "Falsa Bahiana" glides and flutters along the 6/8 line and sweeps itself up into duoles during the solos. All in all, this album is among the finest getz ever recorded, it is one of his best works and is without a doubt comparable to his previous projects with Jobim and Gilberto.
For lovers of the sweet, gentle and romantic rhythms of bossa-nova, with the masters: saxophonist, Stan Getz and singer & guitarist, Joao Gilberto, who started all the trend, back in 1964, with "The Girl of Ipanema".

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• Pressed at Pallas in Germany
• Limited Edition

Musicians:

• Stan Getz (ts)
• Joao Gilberto (voc, g)
• Oscar Castro Neves (arr, g)
• Heloisa (Miucha) Buarque de Hollanda (voc)
• Albert Dailey (p)
• Steve Swallow (b)
• Grady Tate (dr)
• Airto Moreira, Ruben Bassini (perc), et al.

Selections:

Side A
1. Double Rainbow
2. Aguas de Março
3. Ligia
4. Falsa Bahiana
5. Retrato en Branco e Prieto
Side B
1. Izaura
2. Eu Vim da Bahia
3. Joao Marcello
4. E Preciso Perdoar
5. Just One Of Those Things