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Chega De Saudade

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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.

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!

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!

It's the most important cd of Bossanova; it's the pioneer, João Gilberto is very young and in great performance vocal and instrumental.

Excellent, I love this style of music. Though some of the sounds now seem a bit dated, João Gilberto is a true innovator, whose influence is still felt in Brazil and elsewhere, and this inspirational work remains a timeless classic.

I have to say that I am very pleased with the remastering. The other recordings I have heard are muddy and, as an unfortunate result, when I first heard these songs I had little interest, being much more impressed by João's later works, such as his eponymous 1973 album and Amoroso. However, the tastefully enhanced recordings have brought new life into the long out of print 1959 classic. I was ecstatic when I found this album is finally being reprinted, and I hurried to get a copy.

The additional tracks are also enjoyable and represent the outstanding influence this work had throughout Brazil.