GETZ/GILBERTO # 2 - LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL

Stan Getz, Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl
• Label: Verve
• ASIN: B002EXUTXY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Granz puts together a fractious reunion, March 14, 2010

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rash67 (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getz/Gilberto #2: Recorded Live at Carnegie Hall (Audio CD)

Norm Granz, owner of Verve Records, held Getz and the Gilberto's contracts in the sixties. He also owned rigths to the monster classic, the second best selling album of all time (after "Kind of Blue"), "Getz/Gilberto" and was anxious to re-capitalize on it's success with a follow up album.

The painfully shy Joao Gilberto had invited his wife Astrud Gilberto to New York to the original record "Getz/Gilberto" with AC Jobim. Astrud was a housewife with no musical training, but Getz like her, liked her small off-key voice. ("Desafinado" means "off-key" in Portuguese.) So Getz insisted that she sing "Girl From Ipanema" over the strong objections of Gilberto and Jobim. That song went on to be a monster hit, on the Pop, Rock and Jazz stations for over a year. Getz had an affair with Astrud which torpedoed the Gilberto's marriage.

So Granz wanted another golden egg and planned this concert. By this time all three principals were feuding with each other, at each others throats. Getz showed up with his new non Bossa nova band including Gary Burton, the future direction of his career, Joao Gilberto showed with his and Astrud showed up with hers. On stage, the principals were barely civil to each other. While the album is pleasant, there was no playing together and songs where they are have been omitted.

This rag-tag album has shown up in many incarnations, this current version without the Astrud Gilberto songs.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why do they reissue stuff with fewer tracks?, October 3, 2008

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nolahepcat (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getz/Gilberto #2: Recorded Live at Carnegie Hall (Audio CD)

There are 5 tracks missing compared to the 1993 version. The entire CD is 35 minutes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Three stars and then some, May 28, 2011

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Yoguini - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getz/Gilberto #2: Recorded Live at Carnegie Hall (Audio CD)

I agree with one reviewer that the album is disjointed. But as a first time introduction to Stan Getz the first tracks only whetted my appetite for more of his music. "Grandfather's waltz" is worth the price of the album, imho. I like this more than Getz's interpretation of the piece with Bill Evans and while I unfortunately cannot claim to have the knowledge of a musician, I loved what was for me an unusual combination of instruments, the masterful restraint in Getz's playing that seemed to go to all the right places, matched with the satisfying forward drive of the tempo. I kept my system set to replay for more times than I should mention! Maybe you will, too.