Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl From Ipanema

Performer: Stan Getz
Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim; Luiz Bonfa; Astrud Gilberto; Charlie Byrd; Gary Burton; Joao Gilberto; Jim Hall
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: Stan Getz (tenor saxophone); Joao Gilberto (vocals, guitar); Astrud Gilberto (vocals); Doc Severinsen (trumpet); Clark Terry (flugelhorn); Tony Studd (bass trombone); Jerry Sanfino (flute); Ray Beckenstein, Babe Clark (clarinet); Gary Burton (vibraphone); Antonio Carlos Jobim (piano); Gene Byrd (guitar, bass); Luiz Bonfa, Charlie Byrd, Jim Hall (guitar); Tommy Williams, Gene Cherico (bass); Helcio Milito, Milton Banana (drums). Producer: Creed Taylor Compilation producer: Richard Seidel. Includes liner notes by Neil Tesser. Simply put, here are the most successful 14 cuts covering two years in the collaboration between Stan Getz and Antonio Carlos Jobim, during which both men became accustomed to having hit singles. Unfortunately, only one of them got to ride that horse for the rest of the decade -- in the United States, anyway. Nonetheless, this material marks the Americans obsession with the bossa nova and was the music that made Getz and Jobim household names for a while -- after all, we were just climbing out of the "swinging bachelor pad" music era and still had all those weird hi fi records to explore. Seriously though, the great sensitivity shown by Getz for this material, and the adventurousness of Jobim were a match made in heaven and would change the faces of jazz and Brazilian pop forever. This is a fine collection for anyone interested in bossa, and Getz in this period as well. ~ Thom Jurek

Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz possessed a full, luxuriant tone and a highly melodic improvisational sense. Though he produced consistently rewarding music for the duration of his near 50-year career, he achieved the greatest success in the early '60s when he led the American part of the bossa nova explosion. Indeed, this brilliant fusion of jazz and Brazilian rhythms yielded the tune, "The Girl From Ipanema," which became one of the biggest selling jazz records in history.

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