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A review by saareman
João Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto by Bryan Daniel McCann
5.0
Bossa Nova Delight
Review of the Bloomsbury Academic 33 and 1/3 Global Brazil paperback edition (November 29, 2018).
Somehow in my occasional reads of the 33 and 1/3 series of extended essays on significant popular music recordings I had missed noticing that they have an entirely separate "Global" series which covers world music. Currently there are sub-series for Europe, Oceania, Japan, Brazil, South Asia and Africa. You can search through them at Bloomsbury Academic's website here. I chanced upon this when I discovered there was an upcoming Global Europe 33 & 1/3 release about the Estonian punk rock record Külmale maale by the band J.M.K.E. which will be published as [a:Brigitta Davidjants|4216556|Brigitta Davidjants|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]' [b:J.M.K.E.'s To the Cold Land|201288862|J.M.K.E.'s To the Cold Land (33 1/3 Europe)|Brigitta Davidjants|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1698880430l/201288862._SY75_.jpg|206175696] (expected publication January 2025).
This Global series allows you to discover music which you might otherwise never have heard of. For my first read though, I chose a book under Global Brazil about the 1964 jazz/bossa nova album Getz/Gilberto which features the popular song The Girl from Ipanema.
Olga Albizu's original painting "Alla Africa" (1963) used as the cover image for Getz/Gilberto. Image sourced from Wikiart.
Author Bryan McCann provides a superb overview of not only the record album itself, the musicians and the songs but also about the various precedents and leadups to the recording and then about its follow-ups and afterlife. The book was also enhanced by the 1950's photographs by Brazilian photographer José Medeiros, which illustrated life in Rio and on the beaches of Ipanema.
Photograph by José Medeiros. Image sourced from The Eye of Photography.
This was an excellent introduction to the 33 and 1/3 Global series and I hope to investigate more of these books, although they are somewhat harder to find than the ones in the regular popular music series. i.e. only a few of them at my local library for instance.
Soundtrack
Listen to the full album with 2 bonus tracks of the 45rpm edited versions (of the songs The Girl from Ipanema & Corcovado (Quiet Nights and Quiet Stars)) of Getz/Gilberto at a YouTube playlist which begins here.
Listen to the original album with 8 tracks on YouTube here or the enhanced version with 2 bonus tracks on Spotify here.
Trivia and Links
See a performance of The Girl From Ipanema performed by Astrud Gilberto and the Stan Getz Quartet in the film Get Yourself a College Girl (1964) on YouTube here.
Review of the Bloomsbury Academic 33 and 1/3 Global Brazil paperback edition (November 29, 2018).
[Album producer Creed] Taylor himself remembered it differently, indicating he knew he had a hit on his hands when he recorded Astrud Gilberto: "The surprise was when Astrud came in with her little voice to sing the lyric with that accent. I knew the song was going to be an absolute smash. You would have to be deaf and totally out of it not to hear that."
Somehow in my occasional reads of the 33 and 1/3 series of extended essays on significant popular music recordings I had missed noticing that they have an entirely separate "Global" series which covers world music. Currently there are sub-series for Europe, Oceania, Japan, Brazil, South Asia and Africa. You can search through them at Bloomsbury Academic's website here. I chanced upon this when I discovered there was an upcoming Global Europe 33 & 1/3 release about the Estonian punk rock record Külmale maale by the band J.M.K.E. which will be published as [a:Brigitta Davidjants|4216556|Brigitta Davidjants|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]' [b:J.M.K.E.'s To the Cold Land|201288862|J.M.K.E.'s To the Cold Land (33 1/3 Europe)|Brigitta Davidjants|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1698880430l/201288862._SY75_.jpg|206175696] (expected publication January 2025).
This Global series allows you to discover music which you might otherwise never have heard of. For my first read though, I chose a book under Global Brazil about the 1964 jazz/bossa nova album Getz/Gilberto which features the popular song The Girl from Ipanema.
Olga Albizu's original painting "Alla Africa" (1963) used as the cover image for Getz/Gilberto. Image sourced from Wikiart.
Author Bryan McCann provides a superb overview of not only the record album itself, the musicians and the songs but also about the various precedents and leadups to the recording and then about its follow-ups and afterlife. The book was also enhanced by the 1950's photographs by Brazilian photographer José Medeiros, which illustrated life in Rio and on the beaches of Ipanema.
Photograph by José Medeiros. Image sourced from The Eye of Photography.
This was an excellent introduction to the 33 and 1/3 Global series and I hope to investigate more of these books, although they are somewhat harder to find than the ones in the regular popular music series. i.e. only a few of them at my local library for instance.
Soundtrack
Listen to the full album with 2 bonus tracks of the 45rpm edited versions (of the songs The Girl from Ipanema & Corcovado (Quiet Nights and Quiet Stars)) of Getz/Gilberto at a YouTube playlist which begins here.
Listen to the original album with 8 tracks on YouTube here or the enhanced version with 2 bonus tracks on Spotify here.
Trivia and Links
See a performance of The Girl From Ipanema performed by Astrud Gilberto and the Stan Getz Quartet in the film Get Yourself a College Girl (1964) on YouTube here.