Astrud For Lovers

Performer: Astrud Gilberto
Artist: Stan Getz; Gary Burton; Airto; Antonio Carlos Jobim; Walter Wanderley; Ron Carter; Toots Thielemans; Gil Evans
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Astrud Gilberto (vocals); Toots Thielemans (whistling, guitar, harmonica); Antonio Carlos Jobim (guitar, piano); Joao Gilberto (guitar, background vocals); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Bud Shank (flute); Stan Getz (tenor saxophone); Marvin Stamm (trumpet, flugelhorn); Kai Winding, Urbie Green (trombone); Walter Wanderley (piano, organ); Joao Donato, Warren Bernhardt, Gil Evans (piano); Gary Burton (vibraphone); Gene Cherico, Ron Carter, Tommy Williams (bass); Grady Tate, Gary Chester, Joe Hunt (drums); Airto Moreira, Bobby Rosengarden, Dom Um Romao (percussion). Producers: Creed Taylor, Pete Spargo, Brooks Arthur. Compilation producers: Ken Druker, Bryan Koniarz. Recorded between 1963 & 1969. Includes liner notes by Al Young. This is part of Verve's "For Lovers" series. Astrud for Lovers is a strong collection of love songs performed by Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto. Her wispy and melancholic vocals are featured in a variety of settings recorded between 1963 and 1969 for Verve. The earliest tune, "Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)," is taken from the legendary Getz/Gilberto album that marked Astrud's star-making first recording. The rest of the collection finds her with Stan Getz again doing a sweet version of "It Might as Well Be Spring" in 1964, crooning a smooth "Tu Mi Delirio" with organist Walter Wanderley in 1966, fronting a big orchestra in 1969 on two songs taken from the Beach Samba album, and essaying the intimate "Mahna de Carnival" with just guitar for accompaniment. The album shows that while she had a limited vocal range she knew how to get the most out of it and that she was equally at home in many settings. Not to mention that the collection establishes and maintains a lovely romantic mood throughout! That is what they had in mind no doubt and they succeeded. ~ Tim Sendra

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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