Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl From Ipanema

Stan Getz | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 26, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Umvd Labels
• ASIN: B00005UVV5
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,430 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #59 in Music > World Music > Latin Music > Brazilian > Bossa Nova
  • #93 in Music > Jazz > Brazilian Jazz

Editorial Reviews

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When guitarist Charlie Byrd first introduced bossa nova to Stan Getz in 1962, the saxophonist gave the lilting Brazilian rhythm its perfect American voice. Getz's sinuous lines and piping tenor sax sound merged with the understated samba beat to create an irresistible blend of cool jazz and warm Latin sensibilities. This CD gives us bossa nova's greatest soloist playing the tunes of its greatest composer, culling every song by Antonio Carlos Jobim that Getz recorded for Verve between 1962 and 1964. The biggest hits are here, including "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado" with João and Astrud Gilberto's charming vocals, while "Desafinado" and "One Note Samba" appear in both the original instrumental versions with Charlie Byrd and later vocal recordings with the Brazilians. The surprises come with the lesser-known Jobim songs, like "O Morro Nao Tem Vez," a gently keening, minor theme accompanied here by a largely Brazilian band that includes Jobim and the superb guitarist Luiz Bonfá. Another is "Eu e Voce," with Getz soaring in a Carnegie Hall performance. Subtle differences abound in the way the different Brazilian and American groups approach the material, but it's all tied together by Jobim's scintillating melodies and Getz's gorgeous sound and inspired improvisations. --Stuart Broomer

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect summer jazz album, May 12, 2002

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T. Austin (Van Nuys, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl From Ipanema (Audio CD)

First impressions: The album is very "breathy" and sultry. They must have turned up the bass when they recorded it; even the tenor is more "breathy" than usual. Anyway, to simplify this, the bossa nova sound here has a sexy exuberance.

The liner notes are very thorough written by a guy named Neil Tesser from 'Jazziz Magazine' who is also a radio show host in Chicago. He includes a nice explanation as to how bossa nova came about and why it sounds so "laid back". (Basically a rebellion towards tango and bollero singers who were "projecting", their beautiful voices. Note how "projecting" is in quotation marks. Obviously a euphenism for shouting?)

What impressed me in the liner notes about Stan Getz is that he recorded five albums in a 13 month period whereas the bulk of these songs were culled.

The music contained herein is smooth, the vocals very casual, very summer. Lots of guitar, steamy vocals, Getz's breathy sax too. The recordings have a very high sound quality

The CD is 1 hour and 4 minutes long. It hs a retro cover with a 3/4 view looking down on Stan Getz playing his tenor sax in a white shirt, black pants, black shoes, while his sleeves are rolled up. Its both nerdy and charismatic at the same time.

I'm glad I own this. It's a safe buy from a grandmaster of bossa nova.

Tony

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars another great intro to Getz, March 6, 2002

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rash67 (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl From Ipanema (Audio CD)

Stan Getz and Tom Jobim had a mutual appreciation society. Yes, Getz album "Getz/Gilberto" is the second largest selling Jazz album of all time, (right behind Miles Davis "Kind of Blue") and it features the music of Jobim. Getz always loved a good melody. More than anyone else, Getz '60's albums made Jobim's name popular in America. And Getz became identified with Samba/Bossa Nova, even though he only played Bossa Nova for some 5 years of his 40 year career.

What is less well known is that Jobim had heard Getz and Cool Jazz for years before and he formulated his Bossa Nova version of Samba as a Brazilian version of this Cool Jazz. So Getz playing Jobim's music was an ideal match.

This album like the recent "Getz for Lovers" is an inexpensive best-of. You'll like it. Melifluous Bossa Nova is warm and happy even when it's melancholy.

Again, I prefer these tunes in their original albums, (see my "Best of Stan Getz" list for my preferences). If you like this, get the originals. If this album brings new listeners to appreciate Stan Getz, the greatest sax player of all time, it will have served it's purpose.

As John Coltrane said "We'd ALL play sax like Stan Getz, if we could".

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Safe and timely Stan Getz Bossa compilation, February 11, 2004

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Manny Hernandez "@askmanny" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl From Ipanema (Audio CD)

Thanks to chillout and lounge artists such as Thievery Corporation, over the past few years Bossa Nova has once more come to the forefront of our musical consciousness. So today, almost three years after its release, this compilation of Bossa Nova works by American sax player Stan Getz comes in more than handy: it comes in timely, to reinforce Bossa as a groove that was more than a plain elevator music fad that lasted only for 3 years of our collective lives, in the early sixties.

Bossa is a downbeat, sexy statement to relax to, in a couch or while standing sipping through a coffee. It is a way of seeing the world without taking it all too seriously, it is -in a way- a happy way of seeing the world, which we need so direly in these turbulent times. And Stan Getz, driven by Bossa's creator, Jobim, and accompanied by geniuses of the calliber of Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, Charlie Byrd, Luis Bonfa, Gary Burton and many others, presents us here with a fairly comprehensive Verve compilation of some of Bossa's greatest moments, as lived (and conveyed) by Getz, for our enjoyment some 40 years after the fact, sounding just as fresh and upbeat.