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No penance, B R, for you. For me, very happy memories brought back by that cool voice. RIP.Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post -
Me too. 83! - six years between us seems so much less now than it would have done at the time!Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View PostComment
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That lovely delicate, understated voice - I think I have almost all her Verve albums. A perfect sound of Summer. ‘So nice’
RIP AstrudLast edited by cloughie; 06-06-23, 18:47.Comment
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One of my all-time favourites .
Dare I mention Girl from Ipenema? When it first appeared I was really hooked on Stan Getz's solo. However over the the years I came to the view that Getz was redundant, not quite complementary. Bearing in mnd she was only paid 120 dollars for that track which sold a million copies, and that Getz apparently insisted that she should be paid nothing, perhaps I am right!Comment
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"Astrud hadn't been paid a penny for the session... And within days, the record was on the charts. It was at this point that Getz called Creed [Taylor's] office. Betsy, Creed's secretary, took the call. Creed was out of the office. When he returned and she told him Stan was anxious to talk with him, Creed thought Stan must be calling to see that Astrud got some share of the royalties. On the contrary, he was calling to make sure that she got nothing." Gene Lees.Originally posted by Quarky View Post
Well, he needed it all to put his kids through college!
"Stan Getz, a nice bunch of guys", as Zoot Sims said.Comment
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Exactly, I still love her recording with Walter Wanderley.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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Same here.Comment
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Yes me too. I gather she emigrated to USA in the 60's and really made her mark with smooth jazz and light music. Being of mixed parentage probably helped.Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
There were however other Bossa Nova singers that stuck more closely to the genre, and of which we heard little in UK - Nara Leao for instance. That's show business, I guess.Comment
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I always felt that Atrud Gilberto sang flat. I get the appeal but am somewhat n the fence regarding her singing. She did make an alum with Gil Evans which is worth the money for the arrangements and , I would suggest, it probably her most credible effort on record. Strange that this Gil Evans project is so unknown. It is ages since I heard it but the track "Once upon a summertime" is definitive. The arrangements are all really short and rarely went beyond 3 minutes and the whole disc is probably little more than 30 minutes long. For Gil Evans fans, it is overlooked which is a shame as I feel Evans was under-recorded in the 50s/ 60s. All of his projects seemed to have a loing gestation and there are stories that Evans was not a fast worker.
The recording with Getz is something of a milestone and helpe popularise Bossa Nova. However, I always feel that this album was a precursor to much of the Smooth Jazz that was popular in the 1990s. The music is popular, easy to listen to and also miles away from where the jazz mainstream was at time. I think you can applaud the concept and it is not really Getz's fault that this music led where it did. What I do feel is strange is how different Bossa Nova is from so much other Brazilian music. For example, it totally bypasses the nfluence of Villa-Lobos whereas this influence is explicit in musicians such as Hermeto Pascoal and Egbrto Gismonti. There was a jazz arranger called Maocir Santos who was a teacher to many of te Brazilian bossa artists who wrote some cracking big band tracks in this style in the 1960s. I heard a Brazilian big band play some of his music in Vienne a few years back and the results were terrific giving you an impression of exactly what this music could do. It was a bit like Qunicy Jones' music from the European tour but with a Bossa influence. I believe that Santos also composed for many film scoresin Hollywood in the 60s and there is a rumour that some of the charts by Lalo Schiffrin were really his. Schiffrin subcontracted out the arrangements and Santo was uncredited. I might be mistaken by some of the music in "Bullit" might have been his.Comment
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