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Guitarist Charlie Byrd was invited to travel and play in Brazil during a cultural goodwill tour sponsored by the Kennedy administration in 1961. He was completely enamoured by the music, and when he returned, he headed straight for the recording studio to make the now classic Jazz Samba. Collaborating with Stan Getz on tenor sax and backed by a band that included Gene Byrd (bass, guitar), Keter Betts (bass), and Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach (drums), Byrd forged a new and brilliant sound. American record companies were to churn out hundreds of watered bossa-pop albums that have since given the style its lounge-addled image, but this album stands as a tribute to the vitality and adaptability of jazz. --Louis Gibson
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85 of 87 people found the following review helpful
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How do you critique the album that started an era? Forty years later, Jazz Samba is still one of the most relaxing, rhythmically pleasing albums made. All instrumental, with the tenor sax of Stan Getz (the guy John Coltrane professed to admire!) and inspired guitar of Charlie Byrd. The entire album was recorded in one session in the performance hall of a Washington, D.C., church, and it puts legions of studio albums to shame.
While Desafinado and Bahia are the best known tracks, the album is a seamless experience and it is difficult to single out certain songs as superior. If Getz is one of the masters of the tenor saxophone, it is also hard to separate his proficiency from the effort as a whole -- it truly comes across as a tight ensemble effort. (For a contrast, Duke Ellington's masterful and equally essential Money Jungle released the same year finds the trio of Ellington, Mingus and Max Roach locked in a musical duel on a couple of tracks.)
Favorites? I enjoy Samba de Uma Nota So, but every time I reach for Jazz Samba I alway listen to the entire album. At least once. This and Getz/Gilberto belong in every jazz collection.
53 of 54 people found the following review helpful
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"Great companion to "Getz/Gilberto". Pure Samba without singers.
Charlie Byrd went to Brazil and heard the then unknown Antonio Carlos Jobim. He played Jobim records for Stan Getz, they got Keter Betts and two drummers went to All Soul's Unitarian Church in DC, and created the first Bossa Nova, Samba record in the US - a monster hit with "Desafinado". It changed America, and Jazz forever. For a decade every Jazz player tried to imitate it. The best selling Jazz CD of the decade, that's how good it is. A number one Hit of the Billboard Jazz, Pop and Rock charts at the same time. No other Jazz album, not other album of any type, not even "Kind of Blue", even "Getz /Gilberto", has ever achieved that.
Listen to subtle polyrhythym drumming from Deppenschmidt & Riechenbach which add an authentic Carnivale touch. There is more traditional Samba polyrhythm on this CD than any of the subsequent Getz Bossa Nova CD's and most BN cd's by subsequent artists who tried to capitalize om the BN craze. Hear this on "E Luxo So".
Stan floats and soars in "Desafinado" (Portuguese for "offkey"), "E Luxo So" and "Bahia". Most authentic Brazilian Getz Samba recording.
Hear Stan make each note 3-Dimensional blue fog note count."
Beautiful!, Lyrical!! Soaring!!! One of the ten best Jazz recordings ever made."
from my 1998 review
2006 update
Yes it's true, as wonderful a sax man as Getz was, and I think he was the best, he was cheap. He got all the credit and most of the money for this album and he and Byrd fought over the rights to it for a decade in the courts.
Nevertheless its' wonderful. - maybe that's why they fought
This CD is a perennial favorite that never grows old.
Jobim had admired Getz Cool, melancholy Sound for a decade and had actually modeled his new toned down, slowed down Samba sound, called "Bossa Nova", on the Getz sound before they even met!
For people who like Bossa Nova but don't like Astrud Gilberto's singing on "Getz/Gilberto", this is the ideal album.
see my list of Best Cool albums and Best Getz.
Highest recommendation! I hope that when I eventually die, (no time soon) at my funeral someone will play the soaring, always happy "E Luxo So" to send me on my way!
Charlie Byrd went to Brazil and heard the then unknown Antonio Carlos Jobim. He played Jobim records for Stan Getz, they got Keter Betts and two drummers went to All Soul's Unitarian Church in DC, and created the first Bossa Nova, Samba record in the US - a monster hit with "Desafinado". It changed America, and Jazz forever. For a decade every Jazz player tried to imitate it. The best selling Jazz CD of the decade, that's how good it is. A number one Hit of the Billboard Jazz, Pop and Rock charts at the same time. No other Jazz album, not other album of any type, not even "Kind of Blue", even "Getz /Gilberto", has ever achieved that.
Listen to subtle polyrhythym drumming from Deppenschmidt & Riechenbach which add an authentic Carnivale touch. There is more traditional Samba polyrhythm on this CD than any of the subsequent Getz Bossa Nova CD's and most BN cd's by subsequent artists who tried to capitalize om the BN craze. Hear this on "E Luxo So".
Stan floats and soars in "Desafinado" (Portuguese for "offkey"), "E Luxo So" and "Bahia". Most authentic Brazilian Getz Samba recording.
Hear Stan make each note 3-Dimensional blue fog note count."
Beautiful!, Lyrical!! Soaring!!! One of the ten best Jazz recordings ever made."
from my 1998 review
2006 update
Yes it's true, as wonderful a sax man as Getz was, and I think he was the best, he was cheap. He got all the credit and most of the money for this album and he and Byrd fought over the rights to it for a decade in the courts.
Nevertheless its' wonderful. - maybe that's why they fought
This CD is a perennial favorite that never grows old.
Jobim had admired Getz Cool, melancholy Sound for a decade and had actually modeled his new toned down, slowed down Samba sound, called "Bossa Nova", on the Getz sound before they even met!
For people who like Bossa Nova but don't like Astrud Gilberto's singing on "Getz/Gilberto", this is the ideal album.
see my list of Best Cool albums and Best Getz.
Highest recommendation! I hope that when I eventually die, (no time soon) at my funeral someone will play the soaring, always happy "E Luxo So" to send me on my way!
57 of 60 people found the following review helpful
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the perfect introduction to U.S.-filtered bossa nova. I say 'U.S.' because the sound Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz bring to these classics are considerably smoother and broader than originals which can be often raspy or intensely private, but always richly nuanced. Getz's playing is masterfully self-effacing, never virtuosic for its own sake: you might forget he's even there as he conducts intimate conversations with Byrd's often Reinhardt-like guitar, or the quietly insistent rhythms, and yet he is the soul of this beach music that sounds so sad.
The best tracks are the old Jobim favourites 'Desafinado' and 'One note samba', in which the familiar melodies are taken through the most intricate, yet never alienating, variations, always obeying that hypnotic bossa nova beat. 'E Luxo Se' is a wide-eyed beauty, beaming the kind of melody that makes you instantly happy no matter how miserable you felt before you heard it. The same could be said for the whole of this marvellous album, perhaps best listened to at night when you're feeling weary, ready to dream...
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The Classic to Get
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Published 1 month ago by William B. Mattes
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Excellent album
I grew up on this music. My mom and dad danced to this music. I remember watching them and listening to stan getz and charlie byrd. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ran Davis
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Pure Brilliance
I can remember feasting my ears to this album back in the early 2000. WoW was I blown away. Because it was the Verve label and I didn't have the bucks to fork out R300 roughly $38... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ricardo W. Hess
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It's jazz you either love it or you learn to love it
If you love Jazz than there really in no explanation required, if you need an explanation, you will not find one that will help you appreciate this wonderful Music.
Published 3 months ago by Sharp Photo
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The Duet Masterpiece That Made Music History!
With Bossa Nova already achieving worldwide popularity by the 1960's, the Latin jazz
subgenre from Brazil then took another international step when Stan Getz and Charlie... Read more
subgenre from Brazil then took another international step when Stan Getz and Charlie... Read more
Published 6 months ago by RH
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Bossa Nova
This album was one of the early ones in the Bossa Nova craze of the 60s. I'm glad to get a digital copy at such a good price.
Published 6 months ago by E. M. Kimball
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent addition to jazz collection
I have several Stan Getz CD's and enjoy his work. I only recently heard a song from this CD while listening to Pandora and loved the piece; it was amazing. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Madreader
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Timeless Classic
This album has been a favorite of mine since it first came out in the 60s. My original vinyl got lost in the shuffle somewhere so it is a joy to bring it into my life again. Read more
Published 8 months ago by queeniewahine
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A special kind of cool
This is a great "cool age" Jazz album. You could sit, dim the lights, push yourself back in a recliner (with or without a martini) and just groove . . . . Read more
Published 8 months ago by dbez
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Greatly under-rated CD that is always on my play rotation
While the Getz/Gilberto collaboration has garnered the lion's share of fans of Bossa Nova/Samba, it's the pairing of Getz and Byrd that I turn to first when I want that soothing... Read more
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