Release · 1964-03 · New York City [40.71, -74.01]

Getz/Gilberto (1964 album)

Recorded in New York in 1963 and released by Verve in March 1964, Getz/Gilberto paired Stan Getz with João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim in the definitive bossa nova crossover album. It opened with "The Girl from Ipanema," sung in part by Astrud Gilberto, and sold in numbers no jazz album had reached before. The record carried Rio's intimate music to a global audience.

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  • migrated from → Antônio Carlos Jobim

    Antônio Carlos Jobim travelled to New York to record Getz/Gilberto in 1963, carrying bossa nova from Rio's living rooms into an American studio. The journey put a Brazilian composer at the piano on the record that would define the movement abroad. It is the physical migration behind bossa nova's global reach.

  • migrated from → Astrud Gilberto

    Astrud Gilberto's move to the United States coincided with the New York sessions for Getz/Gilberto, where her unplanned vocal launched an American career that kept her there for decades. The album is the pivot on which her migration turned. Her path traces bossa nova's relocation from Rio to the New York recording industry.

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