Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba (1963)

Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba (1963)
MP3 | 192 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo | 47.86 Mb
Genre: Jazz | Styles: Jazz, Samba, Bossa Nova, Brazilian Jazz | Recording Date: February 13, 1962
Original Release Date: May 4, 1963 | 7 tracks | 33:23 Min

Stan Getz Tenor Saxophone
Charlie Byrd Guitar
Keter Betts Bass
Gene Byrd Bass, Guitar
Buddy Deppenschmidt Drums
Bill Reichenbach Percussion

~ TRACKLIST ~

01. Desafinado [05:52]
02. Samba Dees Days [03:36]
03. O Pato (The Duck) [02:34]
04. Samba Triste [04:47]
05. Samba de Uma Nota So [06:12]
06. E Luxo So [03:43]
07. Baia [06:39]

Jazz Samba was the first major bossa-nova album on the American jazz scene, and is often called the best-selling jazz album of all time. It was the real start of the bossa-nova excitement in America, which peaked in the mid-1960s. Though Stan Getz was the featured star of the album, it was very strongly inspired and designed by the guitarist Charlie Byrd. They were joined by two bassists (Keter Betts and Charlie's brother Gene (Joe) Byrd), and two drummers (Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach) for the recording at All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC on 13 February 1962, and it was released on 20 April 1962 as Verve LP V6-8432. Although it is often described as music by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, only two of the seven tracks on the album are Jobim compositions ("Desafinado" and "One Note Samba (Samba de Uma Nota Só)"), the rest being by other Brazilian composers and by Charlie Byrd. Getz won the Grammy for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for the track "Desafinado", and went on to make many other bossa-nova recordings, most notably with João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto, and most famously The Girl From Ipanema.

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