Now

Performer: Astrud Gilberto
Artist: Deodato; Airto Moreira; Ron Carter
Distributor: RED Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Astrud Gilberto (vocals); Eumir Deodato (acoustic guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Deodato (guitar, keyboards); Al Gaffa (electric guitar); Mike Longo (keyboards); Ron Carter, Bob Cranshaw, Patrick Adams (bass); Mickey Roker, Billy Cobham (drums); Maria Helena Toledo, Nick La Sorsa (background vocals). Recorded at Blue Rock Studios, New York, New York. This is a DVD-Audio disc. The DVD-Audio content can only be read by a DVD-Audio player. The Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS audio tracks provided on this disc will play on a standard DVD player. The world's first exposure to Astrud Gilberto's melodious, cool yet sensuous voice was on the 1963 Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto international hit "The Girl From Ipanema," a song that was instrumental in popularizing Brazilian bossa nova on an international scale. Gilberto's influence (she alternates singing in Portuguese and English) can be discerned in the divergent styles of Stereolab, Everything but the Girl, and Sade. NOW was originally issued in 1972, after she'd left Verve Records--here, she incorporates influences of funk (a la Isaac Hayes) and the then-burgeoning style of jazz fusion into her languid, dreamy style. Performed by a stellar crew of musicians (including Ron Carter, Deodato, and Billy Cobham), NOW is classy, summery, late-night mood music that nonetheless maintains a warm, lively groove throughout. DVD Features: Region 0 Super Jewel Case Plus Audio: 24 bit/48 khz Dolby Digital 5.1 - English 24 bit/96 khz - English Text/Photo Galleries: Artist Photos Additional Products: Liner Notes

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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