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| The Boss of Bossa Nova - Joao Gilberto - 1961 |
Label: Atlantic 8070 (USA)
Format: LP
From: Brazil
My rating: 8/10
Entered: 07/28/2002
Last updated: 07/28/2002
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Search on GEMM |  | I have very little Brazilian music on vinyl, and most of what I do have is early American issues. This is a nice album, released by Atlantic in 1962. The cover, with Gilberto's head filling the circle in the middle of the Brazilian flag, clearly marks this as a record dating to the huge bossa nova craze that followed the sucess of Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz's Jazz Samba.
Unlike the records of Marcos Valle, The girls from Bahia, Sylvia Telles, Maria Toledo, and many more, this album doesn't seem to be that hard to come by. I recommend it highly anyway. It's a reissue of material recorded in Rio for Odeon records, and is a mixture of now well-known Brazilian standards by people like Caymmi, Jobim, and Menescal (e.g. samba da minha terra, barquinho, amor em paz, voce a eu, insensatez) and a few more that I hadn't heard before. Many of the tracks feature just Gilberto's voice and guitar, but he's joined on a few tracks by Walter Wanderley and his group.
Since I hear watered-down takes on bossa nova everywhere I go these days (in stores, on tv, everywhere), it's nice to have the opportunity to hear it as people heard it in the early sixties.
Bolinha de Papel
Samba da Minha Terra
Saudade da Bahia
Barquinho
A Primeira Vez
Amor em Paz
Voce e Eu
Insensatez
Trenzinho (Trem de Ferro)
Presente de Natal
Coisa Mais Linda
Este Seu Olhar |
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