To Go: Stick It in Your Ear [EP]

Performer: Astrud Gilberto
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Part of a series of early-21st-century budget-priced Verve CD EPs designed for "people on the go," this brief overview of Brazilian bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto's best-known songs includes the incomparable "Girl From Ipanema" as well as a variety of Antonio Carlos Jobim songs like "Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)" and "How Insensitive."

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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