The Shadow Of Your Smile

Performer: Astrud Gilberto
Artist: Claus Ogerman; Kai Winding; Urbie Green; Joao Donato; Don Sebesky
Engineer: Phil Ramone; Bob Simpson
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: Astrud Gilberto (vocals); Don Sebesky, Claus Ogerman (arranger, conductor); Kai Winding, Bob Brookmeyer, Urbie Green (trombone). Producer: Creed Taylor. Recorded at RCA, A&R Studios, New York, New York between October 21, 1964 & June 4, 1965. Originally released on Verve (V6-8629). Astrud Gilberto second solo album, THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE, which at 25 minutes is one of the shortest LPs ever released. It's a good one though, as Astrud breaks free of bossa nova typecasting and emerges as a full-fledged '60s songbird, with her near definitive version of "The Shadow Of Your Smile." A special hybrid, she's neither a Brazilian nor an American singer, and not really an "international' one either. Her wistful, amateur sound has worn extremely well however--it has the virtue of simplicity and honesty as her absolutely definitive version of "Funny World" from the now forgotten Italian exploitation film MALAMONDO proves.

Brazilian vocalist Astrud Gilberto was a key figure in the bossa nova movement that moved beyond Brazil to sweep the world in the early-to-mid 1960s. As a featured vocalist on the landmark 1963 GETZ/GILBERTO release by American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz and Astrud's then-husband, guitarist/singer Joao Gilberto, the young lady from Bahia took the music world by storm, especially on the huge hit "Girl From Ipanema," destined to become a standard. Influenced as much by American "cool jazz" as by the Brazilian composers like Antonio Carlos Jobim whose work she interpreted, Gilberto had a sultry, low-key style that stood out amid the overblown pop productions of the era, and her blend of pop, jazz, and Brazilian sounds helped sow the first seeds of what we now know as "world music."

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