Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd

ACOUSTIC SOUNDS SERIES

180 GRAM LP

GATEFOLD SLEEVE

5 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

The words bossa nova are often synonymous with the name Stan Getz. But North Americans might not have ever known the bright sound of bossa nova had it not been for Charlie Byrd. In 1961 Byrd returned from a tour of South America, where bossa nova music was thriving. The style was the invention of singer Joao Gilberto and songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim -- an adaptation of infectious Brazilian samba rhythms with the harmonic structures and "cool" surface of West Coast jazz. Byrd brought back records for Getz to hear, they planned a session, and the result was Jazz Samba -- the first album of true bossa nova music by jazz artists and the one that broke the bossa nova wave in 1960s America.

PERSONNEL:

• Stan Getz - (tenor saxophone)
• Charlie Byrd - (guitar)
• Keter Betts - (bass)
• Gene Byrd - (bass, guitar)
• Buddy Deppenschmidt - (drums)
• Antonio Carlos Jobim - (guitar)
• Bill Reichenbach - (drums)

Recorded February 13, 1962 at Studio Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington D.C.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Desafinado
• A2. Samba Dees Days
• A3. O Pato
• A4. Samba Triste

• SIDE B
• B1. Samba De Uma Nota So
• B2. E Luxo So
• B3. Baia