The Silver Collection: The Astrud Gilberto Album

Performer: Astrud Gilberto
Artist: Marty Paich; Don Sebesky; Gil Evans; Claus Ogerman
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: Astrud Gilberto (vocals); Marty Paich, Don Sebesky, Joao Donato, Claus Ogerman, Gil Evans (arranger). THE SILVER COLLECTION, released in Germany in the mid-'80s, may be the first of the many CD compilations of the '60s work of Brazilian bossa nova song stylist Astrud Gilberto. It is still one of the best. While the collection does not include her classic first recording with the Stan Getz Quartet, "The Girl From Ipanema"-the song that introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience-THE SILVER COLLECTION is an excellent introduction to the magic of Astrud Gilberto. With her simultaneously childlike and alluring voice and vibrato-less "desafinado" (deliberately slightly off-pitch) singing style, Gilberto is one of the most unique and unforgettable singers in the history of jazz. Split evenly between Portuguese-language sambas, many written by the great Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, and bossa nova-style interpretations of such jazz standards and pop tunes as "The Shadow Of Your Smile" and "Dreamer," all 25 tracks on this hour-long CD are '60s jazz-pop classics.

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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