![]() ![]() No matter how she came to be there, Astrud’s timid, breathy vocals was likely the key to the album’s eventual popularity. ![]() It might have been during this negotiation that Gilberto’s wife, Astrud, was invited to come along and sing the English lyrics on two of the songs. ![]() Gilberto was a notorious recluse, and Getz’s wife was summoned to retrieve him from his hotel a few blocks away. They were accompanied by two other Brazilians, bassist Sebastião Neto and drummer Milton Banana. Recorded in March 1963, “ Getz/Gilberto” was a true summit meeting featuring Getz on tenor sax, Antonio Carlos Jobim on piano and João Gilberto on guitar and Portuguese vocals. Getz’s producer at Verve, Creed Taylor, decided to pair the saxophonist up with several of them to create a collection of bossa nova discs which he could issue over a period of several years. Many of the Brazilians decided to stay in New York for a few months so they could capitalize on the music’s popularity. Although Stan Getz did not play at the concert (and may not have attended), it was the success of his album “ Jazz Samba” (co-led with Charlie Byrd) that had buoyed American interest in the bossa nova movement. In November 1962, several important Brazilian musicians, including João Gilberto, Oscar Castro-Neves, Luis Bonfá and Sergio Mendes, came to New York City to play a concert at Carnegie Hall. ![]()
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