C&L's Late Night Music Club with Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz
By Andy K Sunday Sep 28, 2008 10:00pmChrist Rédempteur
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Corcovado from Getz/Gilberto
If you're like me and you'd like to get away - but you just can't afford the airfare for a trip to Rio - just close your eyes and let this song take you there.
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I love it.... but too bad they couldn't have mixed that sax a little lower.
Watch this love duet Daddy Daughter duet.
It couldn't be anymore creepy if she sat on his lap, while he wore a red/white suit.
Totally awesome
Love that hauntingly off-key voice of Astrud Gilberto. "Girl From Ipanima" was my favorite of hers. Many years ago......sigh.
Wild coincidence! I just made a compilation CD for my friend and put this as the #1 track. She said, "I've never heard this before, but it's fantastic!" I said, yes, you have heard it if you know "The Girl From Ipanema"...
I also do voiceovers and used that song as the music bed for a commercial. You can hear it here: www.danovox.com
Such great music - hard to find today.
Andy, that was beautiful. How I love Astrud Gilberto and the haunting music that she sings. Stan Getz and the rest of the band are absolutely superb. The Girl from Ipanema is one of the most exquisite songs ever written and is a personal favourite of mine.
Thanks for taking me on the flight to Rio tonight :)
Every single young man MUST go to Rio before he ties the knot. The place is amazing.
Charlie Musselwhite, "Christo Redemptor"
Oh yeah!!
when I was a little kid, I saw some movie on TV that
featured a guy playing sax with a band at a ski resort...
didn't know who it was at the time or what kind of music it was
but I liked the music and the girls hangin' around the bandstand..
I had just started band in elementary school....
Later on I lucked out and saw the movie again and it was
Getz + Astrud Giberto doing the bossa nova thing at some ski resort,
it was really incidental to the 'plot' of the movie.....
I've always liked Getz even tho' my sax style is very different from his,
now, I ain't sayin' all the girls hangin' around the band had anything
to do with me becoming a musician...
but.............
;-)
Come on now, Big E, we're all adults here. Time to fess up!
Good timing. Marpessa Dawn, who played Eurydice in the Film ‘Black Orpheus,’ recently passed away 74. Jobim certainly played a part of that movie with his compositions, and the Gilbertos and Getz played many of those tunes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/movies/27dawn.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=euryd...
As a Brazilian expat who checks your blog daily, this was a nice surprise! #7 is correct, Rio de Janeiro is a great city for romance, for both men and women. Nothing like a stroll on Ipanema or its lively night scene...
The song talks about this guy playing his acoustic guitar at home seeing the Corcovado hill from his window and singing a song to make his loved one happy.
Portuguese may be the perfect language for song lyrics. All the passion of Spanish + the seductiveness of French.Gorgeous tune.
Apropos of nothing: Blue Rondo à la Turk ...
Thanks. That was nice.
Muito brigado.
Here's another lovely to enjoy:
Ben Harper & Vanessa da Mata - Boa Sorte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw6TnHYUkPg&feature=related
Shakira singing 'Ojos Asi'
Thank you for an interlude of sanity! I may make it through the end of the week now.
ferrofluid (Obama + Biden = 2008) @ 16:
forget Youtube their audio quality is deliberately garbage
Daily Motion Shakira - Ojos Asi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN9TM3Cwkb4 , andy summers of the police, and victor biglione do Jobim's "double rainbow" with a portland oregon slide show.
Not Portuguese, but pretty damned irresistable nonetheless ...
cynic @ 13:
I saw Dave when I was 6 and Blue Rondo a la Turk was new. The music still brings a special feeling no other can.
ab ovo @ 21:
Gotcha. How 'bout that business at 1:52 when the ostinato suddenly melts into the coolest alto solo ever? Classic.
JM @ 8:
One of the greatest and under appreciated projects ever.
Harvey Mandel at his best, and Charlie too.
Great, great song, and project.
Saw them do this, Mandel and Musselwhite, in '69 I think. I was 16.
Snuck into Palo Alto, CA Keystone Corner, under age . . .
Once in a lifetime stuff . . .
Andy K, hella pick!
I think of South American music, 60's/70's?
I think Astrud's voice, and Flora Purim's voice.
Getz, Jobim, and Joao G . . . . with Astrud?
Some of the best and sexiest music ever recorded.
A fine, fine pick, Andy K. Everyone's heard Girl From . . . likely many have NOT heard CHRIST RÉDEMPTEUR . . . man, Astrud . . . sigh. :D
Sorry, led astray by myself . . . not CHRIST RÉDEMPTEUR, Corcovado . . . a fine, fine pick again, Andy K . . .
This has been one of the finest C&L music clubs ever. Every song is fantastic. The sidebar at bart's contribution @ 19 even has a video and instructions on 'How to get your car out of the snow'. How cool to have incredible music and winter driving tips in one-stop shopping.
Andy, you are rocking tonight and I had so much fun.
Alas, the time has come to bid you all adieu for the evening.
Thanks again, A, I had a wonderful time :)
Funny you should post this . . . when I can't get to sleep I put on a CD I've had for about 20 years called "Compact Jazz -- Best of Bossa Nova" that includes tracks by Getz, Gilberto, Jobim and Wanderley, among others. Another, live version of "Corcovado" with Astrid Gilberto's vocals is the third track on that CD.
Despite Walter Wanderley's peppy organ on "O Barquinho," the soft sounds of the other songs put me to sleep. Some nights I don't get through the first track (Getz' "Desafinado") and it's rare that I make it to the end of the CD.
É simplesmente fantástico !
Sergio Mendes - Rio De Janeiro
Do yourself a favor, listen to this version as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y4MFn4bHdY
Gal Costa/Tom Jobin. The voice control, the sultry flute: pure saudade
how about some gilberto gil? over at skippy...
calgarylady @ 10:
well, maybe it had jes' a lil bit to do with it.. ;-p
Aahhh...the heat of the night and the smell of cigar stained fingers and martini sweetened lips..... And Stan Getz! O blow! sweet Stan, blow!. Carry me away on that soft wind and lay me down gently to sleep.
FANTASTIC! Where is the Girl from Ipanema? While I was in college, it was one of my first 33 and a third records--I played it so much it finally was literally worn out. My girlfriends listened to it, but never seemed to appreciate the great Getz sazophone as much as I did--used to turn the lights out at night and let the music blow me away. Wonderful to hear it again.
I just relocated to that States after a long and wonderful five years in Brazil. This, of course, is wonderfully nostalgic for me. Thank you. These guys had a beautiful collaboration, didn't they?
I was lucky enough to grow up in Rio in the 60s and 70s. Copacabana and Ipanema. Thanks for the lovely music and the visuals. In Brasil, we call the Christ statue "Corcovado" (or hunchback) after the mountain on which it's perched. Saudades mil!
If you liked the Getz number, you should love this. Ben Webster and Teddy Wilson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQVVLAO-9LU&feature=related
Back in the 50's when Getz was a more than competent be-bopper, the boys in New York referred to his intonation as the Long Island Sound (Getz lived on Long Island). When he discovered samba and Jobim's catalogue he found a tremendously commercial idiom but those songs, some of the best ever written, would probably never have found their way to American ears without that discovery. Getz's idiosyncratic style was ideally suited to samba and Gilberto's vocals are nonpareil.
The sounds of Getz and Jobim are the only things that restore some semblance of sanity to my politically frazzled psyche of late. Recently,with the purchase of a Bose player, I rediscovered the subtle charm and timeless elegance of this music,all over again. Additionally, I tracked down and ordered a digitally remastered CD of an album that Jobim and Sinatra did together. The most SEDUCTIVE Sinatra-EVER! If your in the "mood for love',this one's for you,I promise!
Twenty years ago I got to see Astrid Gilberto at a club in Manhattan, she was so exquisite -- tears of joy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TqLmDhOdEc&feature=related
I love Astrid Gilberto... here's a video of a friend of mine..:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPja_0zVuEo&feature=related
#5 Danovox-In reference to your statement"hard to find",I agree. However,a couple of years back ,the NYT had an ad on the back of the Sunday NYT magazine for a website called Jazz Heritage Society. INCREDIBLE! THE spot for jazz aficionados and discounted way down. Check it out-I'm glad I did. I was able to find many "classic" tracks that I've been unable to locate anywhere else-and complete my collections.Good luck!
Thanks for the Shakira, she's the best. Here's Girl from Ipanema played by a couple of the originals.
Back in 1963, Eydie Gorme had a pop hit "Blame It On The Bossa Nova". It was a corny tune but the album was loaded with very well produced tunes like "Corcovada", "One Note Samba" and my favorite "Desafinado". That album introduced me to Jobim. Check it out if you can find it...it is available on CD. Aside from the title song, the album is very nice. Also, check out"A Twist Of Jobim" featuring Lee Ritenour among others.
I still have my lp with this song on it. I found the CD on eBay and am now enjoying it all over again. The perfect "record".
oooh la la, Brazilian Bossa Nova is my speciality as a jazz pianist & band leader, love that music, love Rio de Janeiro, love Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Gal Costa, Elis Regina, Eliane Elias, and btw, it was Luis Bonfa who composed and performed the music for "Black Orpheus," Joao Gilbert learned a lot about Bonna Nova style guitar from Bonfa, & I like the music from Bahia, too, so wild, there are too many to name here...
Joao Gilberto's daughter is Bebel Gilberto (from another marriage, not when he was married to Astrud Gilberto, they had a son, also a musician, who wrote "Soho Samba"), Bebel's music is modern and exquisite, too, but none match Astrud Gilberto
muita obrigada for the musique and the love & memories, beijos de amor
Thank you for combining my two favorite topics, politics and Brazilian music. For more Brazilian vibes, check out Ivan Lins for melodies, Toninho Horta for harmonies, Cesar Camargo Mariano for arranging, and Egberto Gismonti and Hermeto Pascoal for creativity. Tudo de bom.
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