The Girl From Ipanema - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Added 2019-04-12 15:32:03 +0000 UTCThank you to Patreon.com member Helio for continuing to class up this channel with old jazz requests!
This one comes by way of Brazil. When Stan Getz travelled down to South America and returned with the Getz/Gilberto albums, it really helped to cement "Latin Jazz" as a a beautiful and influential mix of the two styles. Before these records, "Bossa" was not a term heard in Jazz circles, but once people got their hands on these records, it was everywhere.
Now, latin standards like The Girl From Ipanema are inseparable from "normal" jazz tunes. We have Stan Getz in large part to thank for that, as well as the beautiful compositions of Antonio Carlos Jobim, and the embodiment of Brazilian singing Joao Gilberto and his then wife, Astrud Gilberto, who had never sung professionally before this session (!!!!!)
This week's tune is definitely a simpler one, but extremely historic.
Enjoy!
