Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto (Acoustic Sounds Series) [VERVE]

Why you'll love it

This is Verve's Acoustic Sounds Series edition, mastered from the original analogue tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl. Getz/Gilberto won the Grammy for Album of the Year, and "The Girl from Ipanema" won Record of the Year.

This edition

• Verve Acoustic Sounds Series edition
• Mastered from the original analogue tapes
• 180g vinyl

About the album

And just like that, bossa nova was a "thing."

Getz/Gilberto, the historic 1964 pairing of American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist Joao Gilberto (with a little help from composer and pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim), exported the sun-dappled, easy-breezy sound of Brazil at its coolest and most chilled-out to more than a million record buyers worldwide. But besides being ground zero for the mid-'60s bossa nova explosion and one of the most popular jazz albums of all time, Getz/Gilberto is also notable for kick-starting the career of a young singer by the name of Astrud Gilberto. She sings on two tracks, "Corcovado" and the ageless "Garota de Ipanema" (AKA "The Girl from Ipanema"), and shared in a Grammy Award with Getz, Gilberto and Jobim for Record of the Year for the latter and ... well ... the rest is history.

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On Verve, an Acoustic Sounds Series reissue of the 1964 album.