Chega De Saudade [Import]

Joao Gilberto | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2010)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• ASIN: B002XMGJD0
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,690 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #98 in Music > Jazz > Brazilian Jazz

Track Listings

1. Chega de saudade (No More Blues)

2. Lobo bobo (Foolish Wolf)

3. Brigas nunca mais (Fights, Never More)

4. H-b-l-l

5. Saudade fez um samba (Saudade made a Samba)

6. Maria ningum (Maria Nobody)

7. Desafinado (Off-Key)

8. Rosa morena (Brunette Rose)

9. Morena boca de ouro (Brunette with a Mouth of Gold)

10. Bim bom

11. Aos ps da cruz (At the Foot of the Cross)

12. luxo s (It's Just a Luxury)

13. A Felicidade (Happiness)

14. Manh de carnaval (Morning of the Carnival)

15. O nosso amor (Our Love)

16. ELIZETE CARDOSO Chega de saudade

17. OS CARIOCAS Chega de saudade

18. ALAIDE COSTA Lobo bobo

19. BOLA SETE Maria ningum

20. NORMA BENGELL H-b-l-l

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1959 album from the master of the Bossa Nova. The Chega De Saudade album is supplemented by the impossibly rare EP of songs from the film Black Orpheus and recordings of some of the famous songs from Chega De Saudade by contemporaries such as Elizete Cardoso, Os Cariocas, Alaide Costa, Norma Bengell and Bola Sete. In the summer of 1958, a singer-guitarist from Bahia in the north of Brazil called Joao Gilberto created a musical revolution when he joined with Bossa Nova's seminal songwriting team, the gifted composer Ant"nio Carlos Jobim, and the poet and former diplomat, Vinicius de Moraes, to record the songs that would launch this cool, futuristic new music for a confident new era. Gilberto brought an unprecedented guitar style and a hushed, understated form of vocal expression that defined the movement and changed the course of music history. 24 tracks. El. 2010.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Is there anything to say, really, April 16, 2010

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Idiosyncrat (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chega De Saudade (Audio CD)

This is likely the most influential Brazilian album of all time. There is really little to say about it that hasn't been said over and over for 50 years. Many of the most influential Brazilian musicians of the last 50 years cite this album as one of their very primary influences: Caetano Veloso and Jorge Ben are the biggest examples there, out of many, many others. The 1960's Byrd/Getz bossa nova craze was also largely inspired by this album.

If you're mildly interested in this album, you should probably get it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finalmente!, May 12, 2010

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Josesito M. A. Padilha Jr. (Fortaleza, CE, BRASIL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chega De Saudade (Audio CD)

Finalmente! Relançaram este disco que há tempos estava esgotado, graças a uma disputa judicial por direitos autorais. Vem com as 12 faixas originais e uma dúzia de outras gravações de época, a maioria do próprio João Gilberto ou cantada por ele. Um verdadeiro clássico da música brasileira! João Gilberto pode não ter sido, a rigor, o criador da Bossa Nova, pois esta foi sendo gestada durante anos por diversos músicos, mas a sua batida no violão foi um divisor de águas, uma proeza criativa que influenciou uma geração de músicos jovens e que queriam uma batida diferente, uma música moderna e que, inclusive, chegou a influenciar o jazz, levando inúmeros músicos americanos a tentar cantar e tocar bossa nova. Imperdível!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The real stuff, May 2, 2010

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Fred Schroyer (Waynesburg, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chega De Saudade (Audio CD)

If you are into Brazilian popular music (MPB), including its early years in the late 1950s, this is a CD to treasure. It's the real stuff. Joao Gilberto & Elizete Cardoso offering the first recorded bossa nova, Chega de Saudade (loosely, "no more blues"). Actually, several versions of that famous song. 26 tracks altogether from Joao, Alaide Costa, & others, inclusing Desafinado and A Felicidade from the 1959 film Orpheu Negro (Black Orpheus). To me, the whole CD is Ah, Felicidade!