Bryan Daniel McCann, "João Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto "
English | ISBN: 1501323962 | 2018 | 152 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 1501323962 | 2018 | 152 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "The Girl from Ipanema," is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we've all heard "The Girl from Ipanema" as background music in a thousand anodyne settings, from cocktail parties to telephone hold music. So how did Getz/Gilberto become the Brazilian album known around the world, crossing generational and demographic divides?
Bryan McCann traces the history and making of
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