A different Brazilian Girl . . . Some Getz/Gilberto from YouTube
One of my favorite albums is Stan Getz’s Getz/Gilberto on Verve, which brought together saxophonist Getz and Brazilian Joao Gilberto on an album that defined bossa nova and really brought that wonderful music to the rest of the world. Mostly songs of the great Brazilian songwriter Carlos Antonio Jobim, it turned out that it was Gilberto’s wife, Astrud, who sang on the track of “The Girl from Ipanema,” who became an international sensation in 1964 when the album was released and the song became one of the smash hits of jazz. Although it isn’t the best song on the album, it is just right for summer (the entire album is, actually) and is on heavy rotation in my CD player. I recently ran across this somewhat kitchy video on YouTube with Astrud singing that hit (and that is Mr. Getz there, too) and thought you might enjoy:
