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Rating: - The ultimate seduction music
I am a happily married dude, but I still know the sound of the music for the purposes of the slow dancing and the seduction of the young ladies, and this is it. Take a tip, fellas, this is the real deal, starring the equal driest sax sound in recorded medical history.
Rating: - The essence of bossa nova.
If I were given a choice of just one CD to take with me in the after-life, I would choose Getz/Gilberto. This album is a rare gem of a recording. And what incredible music it contains! I first heard this album in the early 70's. Back then, I already knew how to play the acoustic guitar. However, hearing João Gilberto's play the guitar changed my style, and indeed, my musical direction altogether. More than twenty years later, I still play those wonderful chords that João had imprinted on my musical psyche. With the exception of Para Machucar Meu Coraçao and Doralice, all the songs were written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Astrud Gilberto's unpretentious singing of The Girl From Ipanema and Corcovado is a fine example of sincerity in musical expression. She sings both songs in English. João Gilberto's authoritative singing of the other songs in Portuguese remains to this day, the essence of bossa nova. His phrasing on Desafinado is delicate. On So Danço Samba, his guitar-playing is simply marvelous. Stan Getz's superb solos bring each song to musical heights. Listen to his closing notes on O Grande Amor. Don't they tear right into your soul? The unassuming Jobim plays a brief but beautiful piano solo on The Girl From Ipanema. Tommy Williams (bass) and Milton Banana (drums) provide the steady rhythm that gives this album its eternal life. The performance is simply incredible. The sound quality on this 20-bit remastered edition is even more brilliant than the original CD reissue. Moreover, the fading notes on some of the selections have been extended, thus prolonging the listening pleasure just a bit more. This CD proves that music is indeed a universal language. You don't need to know Portuguese to understand, let alone, appreciate this album. All you need is the ability to admire beauty, and this CD has plenty to offer
Rating: - One of the greatest records ever made
Buy it. You will love it. I've played it for juvenile delinquents who even got off on it. It's that good. Gilberto is the greatest guitar player alive (and I am a respected expert in the field), his playing is like an organ and a harp and a drum and a dancer all at once, the inventor of Bossa Nova who could even sing like no other. And of course Jobim, the greatest songwriter EVER, playing piano on his own tracks, the great Astrud Gilberto and Stan getz, who I've never liked but even he can't ruin this.It lives up to the Desert Island music hype, just like A love supreme and the Coltrane/Hartman record. The record that started it all, the greatest pop record of all time (it outcharted the beatles and knocked them from the number one spot at the time).
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