Look To the Rainbow [Digipak]

Performer: Astrud Gilberto
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: This 2008 reissue of Astrud Gilberto's LOOK TO THE RAINBOW restores the original 1967 LP's 11-track configuration. (The previous CD version included six songs from a previous Gilberto collaboration with Brazilian organist Walter Wanderly.) With arrangements provided by Gil Evans and saxophonist Al Cohn, it's also perhaps Gilberto's most jazz-oriented session, starting off with the percussive "Berimbau," sung in the original Portuguese. Since this is just as much a Gil Evans project, we are also treated to one of his signature slow meditations on "I Will Wait For You," which perfectly supports Gilberto's typically plaintive vocal. There are some bossa nova standards here too--Jobim's "A Felicidade" and the perky "Bim Bom"--in addition to the lovely "Once Upon A Summertime," whose evanescence this wonderfully remastered edition reveals as if for the first time. The 2008 reissue of Astrud Gilberto's LOOK TO THE RAINBOW restores the original 1967 LP's 11-track configuration. (The previous CD version included six songs from a previous Gilberto collaboration with Brazilian organist Walter Wanderly.) With arrangements provided by Gil Evans and saxophonist Al Cohn, it's also perhaps Gilberto's most jazz-oriented session, starting off with the percussive "Berimbau," sung in the original Portuguese. Since this is just as much a Gil Evans project, we are also treated to one of his signature slow meditations on "I Will Wait For You," which perfectly supports Gilberto's typically plaintive vocal. There are some bossa nova standards here too--Jobim's "A Felicidade" and the perky "Bim Bom"--in addition to the lovely "Once Upon A Summertime," whose evanescence this wonderfully remastered edition reveals as if for the first time.

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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