Talk:Getz/Gilberto

Awkward trivia
"An interesting tidbit about this recording is that producer Creed Taylor kept the recording in a drawer for a year before releasing it, for reasons known only to him."

The information is fine but it doesn't belong in the summary paragraph. I personally don't know anyway to integrate it into the article for now so I'm taking it out. Glassbreaker5791 16:09, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Another Grammy winning Jazz Album
Quincy Jones: Back on the Block, another jazz album winning the Grammy for Album of the Year -1991 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.90.142.202 (talk) 15:16, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Importance
This album is a landmark in recording history, and it was notably responsible for the dissemination of the bossa nova style outside of Brazil in the 1960s, quickly followed by many recordings of bossa nova songs by american artists, and eventually made the Girl from Ipanema become a standard and one of the most recognizable tunes anywhere. I am reverting the recent change from top to mid, back to top. Fbergo (talk) 19:56, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

the person who wrote the album
Why is the person who wrote almost the entire album, and played on the album, treated as a secondary notation? This is Jobim's album.68.49.111.15 (talk) 00:46, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * All of the tracks in the album are rearrangements of the original recordings, featuring prominently Gilberto's guitar and Getz's saxophone. Jobim's original recordings and arrangements were too full and complex, and the Gilberto's innovation with the bossa nova was the his minimalist voice-and-guitar style. The (commercial) objective of this album was to spread the style (not the compositions themselves) to the american public. Launching Astrud Gilberto's career as a singer was, apparently, just a side-effect. Of all recordings of the Girl of Ipanema in english, her rendering of the english lyrics are unique as she pronounces Ipanema correctly, unlike Sinatra and several other american artists. Fbergo (talk) 20:55, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Re bass player
The CD lists the bass player as being Tommy Williams of Getz's working group.

Assessment comment
Substituted at 04:52, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

"Getz/Gilberto" album, on Verve
According the album notes on the back of the sleeve, this album was recorded on March 18/19, 1963

... not 1964

How is this best amended?

Gyromancer1 Gyromancer1 (talk) 01:19, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Possible Incorrect Release Date
As it happens, I have a strong childhood memory of this album in spring of 1963. It's possible my parents got it thru some unusual channel but it had the same cover. I took the album to my 4th grade class and was ridiculed for it which is why I vividly remember it being '63 and not '64 when I went to a different school. Lycurgus (talk) 05:45, 6 December 2023 (UTC)


 * OK, so I checked because I recalled that I went back to that school for 6th grade (and the '64/65 school year) and there was this other song that was the reason for the ridicule because Getz/Gilberto wasn it and the thing i brought wasn the real bossa nova. It seemed that song might be the Bossa Nova bird by the Dells which came out in '64. But pretty sure it was in fact the unmistakable Surfin' Bird which came out in Nov. '63., later than I remember the incident being. Couldn have been later than that and pretty sure it was in the '62/63 school year. Lycurgus (talk) 06:00, 6 December 2023 (UTC)