Dec 20, 2016

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The music of Brazil encompasses various regional music styles influenced by African, European and Amerindian forms. After 500 years of history, Brazilian music developed some unique and original styles such as samba, bossa nova, MPB, sertanejo, pagode, tropicalia, choro, maracatu, embolada (coco de repente), mangue bit, funk carioca (in Brazil simply known as Funk), frevo, forró, axé, brega, lambada, and Brazilian versions of foreign musical genres, such as Brazilian rock and rap.


Today's artist is was born Astrud Evangelina Weinert, the daughter of a Brazilian mother and a German father, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. She was raised in Rio de Janeiro. She married João Gilberto in 1959 and emigrated to the United States in 1963, residing in the U.S. from that time. Astrud and João divorced in the mid-1960s and she began a relationship with her musical partner, American jazz saxophone player Stan Getz.... N'Joy

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The honey-toned chanteuse on the surprise Brazilian crossover hit "The Girl From Ipanema," Astrud Gilberto parlayed her previously unscheduled appearance (and professional singing debut) on the song into a lengthy career that resulted in nearly a dozen albums for Verve and a successful performing career that lasted into the '90s. Though her appearance at the studio to record "The Girl From Ipanema" was due only to her husband João, one of the most famed Brazilian artists of the century, Gilberto's singular, quavery tone and undisguised naïveté propelled the song into the charts and influenced a variety of sources in worldwide pop music.

Born in Bahia, Gilberto moved to Rio de Janeiro at an early age. She'd had no professional musical experience of any kind until 1963, the year of her visit to New York with her husband, João Gilberto, in a recording session headed by Stan Getz. Getz had already recorded several albums influenced by Brazilian rhythms, and Verve teamed him with the cream of Brazilian music, Antonio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto, for his next album. Producer Creed Taylor wanted a few English vocals for maximum crossover potential, and as it turned out, Astrud was the only Brazilian present with any grasp of the language. After her husband laid down his Portuguese vocals for the first verse of his and Jobim's composition, "The Girl From Ipanema," Astrud provided a hesitant, heavily accented second verse in English.

Not even credited on the resulting LP, Getz/Gilberto, Astrud finally gained fame over a year later, when "The Girl From Ipanema" became a number five hit in mid-1964. The album became the best-selling jazz album up to that point, and made Gilberto a star across America. Before the end of the year, Verve capitalized on the smash with the release of Getz Au Go Go, featuring a Getz live date with Gilberto's vocals added later. Her first actual solo album, The Astrud Gilberto Album, was released in May 1965. Though it barely missed the Top 40, the LP's blend of Brazilian classics and ballad standards proving quite infectious with easy listening audiences.

Though she never returned to the pop charts in America, Verve proved to be quite understanding for Astrud Gilberto's career, pairing her with ace arranger Gil Evans for 1966's Look to the Rainbow and Brazilian organist/arranger Walter Wanderley for the dreamy A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness, released later that year. She remained a huge pop star in Brazil for the rest of the 1960s and '70s, but gradually disappeared in America after her final album for Verve in 1969. In 1971, she released a lone album for CTI (with Stanley Turrentine) but was mostly forgotten in the U.S. until 1984, when "Girl From Ipanema" recharted in Britain on the tails of a neo-bossa craze. Gilberto gained worldwide distribution for 1987's Astrud Gilberto Plus the James Last Orchestra and 2002's Jungle.

Gilberto received the Latin Jazz USA Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1992, and was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2002. In 1996, she contributed to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization, performing the song "Desafinado" along with George Michael. Although she did not officially retire, Gilberto announced in 2002, that she was taking "indefinite time off" from public performances.


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Astrud Gilberto's entry in the nicely appointed Verve Jazz Masters compilation series shows exactly why the Brazilian singer is deserving of such an accolade. In her '60s heyday, Gilberto was often derided by jazz purists for her vibrato-less "desafinado" (deliberately slightly off-pitch) singing style and deadpan, childlike voice. But the diminutive bossa nova star has since been a huge influence on dozens of jazz and pop singers.
Verve Jazz Masters is less of a greatest hits package than it is a smartly balanced retrospective of many of Gilberto's best performances. Her biggest hits, "Call Me" and "Summer Samba," are not included, and her signature tune, "The Girl From Ipanema," is only represented by a live take from a 1964 Carnegie Hall concert. The collection places equal emphasis on Gilberto's bossa nova-style interpretations of jazz standards and on her signature Portuguese-language sambas. The smartly packaged CD also features remastered sound and several rare photographs.



Astrud Gilberto - Verve Jazz Masters (flac 280mb)

01 The Girl From Ipanema 5:21
02 Fly Me To The Moon 2:17
03 Non-Stop To Brazil 2:26
04 Only Trust Your Heart 4:14
05 It Might As Well Be Spring 4:21
06 My Foolish Heart 2:44
07 Misty Roses 2:36
08 Tu Me Delirio 3:39
09 Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) 4:14
10 Manha de Carnival 1:55
11 If You Went Away 3:20
12 Here's That Rainy Day 2:44
13 I Will Wait For You 4:41
14 Who Can I Turn To? 3:08
15 Once Upon A Summertime 3:04
16 The Shadow Of Your Smile 2:29

Astrud Gilberto - Verve Jazz Masters      (ogg  118mb)

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More thematically-programmed than many of Verve's compilations, the Jazz 'Round Midnight series focuses on the quiet, romantic side of the label's artists. Astrud Gilberto is a perfect match for this series. Her simultaneously childlike and alluring voice defines the quiet, romantic elements of the bossa nova style she popularized worldwide with the enormous success of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "The Girl from Ipanema," recorded with her then-husband Joao Gilberto and the Stan Getz Quartet in 1963.
After that classic, Jazz 'Round Midnight focuses little on Gilberto's trademark Brazilian sambas, instead favoring her unique interpretations of jazz standards. Gilberto's bossa nova versions of "Fly Me To the Moon," "The Shadow Of Your Smile," and "Here's That Rainy Day" epitomize romantic languor. "I feel so gay in a melancholy way" goes the key line of the standard "It Might As Well Be Spring," and no sentiments could better encapsulate Astrud Gilberto's gift.



Astrud Gilberto - Jazz 'Round Midnight   (flac  290mb)

01 The Girl From Ipanema 5:21
02 Fly Me To The Moon 2:17
03 Non-Stop To Brazil 2:26
04 Only Trust Your Heart 4:14
05 It Might As Well Be Spring 4:21
06 My Foolish Heart 2:44
07 Misty Roses 2:36
08 Tu Me Delirio 3:39
09 Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) 4:14
10 Manha de Carnival 1:55
11 If You Went Away 3:20
12 Here's That Rainy Day 2:44
13 I Will Wait For You 4:41
14 Who Can I Turn To? 3:08
15 Once Upon A Summertime 3:04
16 The Shadow Of Your Smile 2:29

Astrud Gilberto - Jazz 'Round Midnight    (ogg   117mb)

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Astrud for Lovers is a strong collection of love songs performed by Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto. Her wispy and melancholic vocals are featured in a variety of settings recorded between 1963 and 1969 for Verve. The earliest tune, "Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)," is taken from the legendary Getz/Gilberto album that marked Astrud's star-making first recording. The rest of the collection finds her with Stan Getz again doing a sweet version of "It Might as Well Be Spring" in 1964, crooning a smooth "Tu Mi Delirio" with organist Walter Wanderley in 1966, fronting a big orchestra in 1969 on two songs taken from the Beach Samba album, and essaying the intimate "Mahna de Carnival" with just guitar for accompaniment. The album shows that while she had a limited vocal range she knew how to get the most out of it and that she was equally at home in many settings. Not to mention that the collection establishes and maintains a lovely romantic mood throughout! That is what they had in mind no doubt and they succeeded.



Astrud Gilberto - Astrud For Lovers   (flac  233mb)

01 Only Trust Your Heart 4:15
02 Once I Loved 2:13
03 Tu Mi Delirio 3:39
04 World Stop Turning 2:16
05 Manha De Carnival 1:56
06 Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) 4:14
07 My Foolish Heart 2:45
08 Look To The Rainbow 3:27
09 It Might As Well Be Spring 4:14
10 Lonely Afternoon 3:23
11 Love Is Stronger Than We 3:43
12 The Shadow Of Your Smile 2:30

Astrud Gilberto - Astrud For Lovers      (ogg  90mb)

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This well-appointed collection from Brazilian jazz vocalist Astrud Gilberto looks beyond her signature 1964 track, "The Girl from Ipanema," at some of the other great performances from her prime years. Issued in 2006 as a European import, Non-Stop to Brazil relies heavily on Gilberto's mid- to late-'60s Verve catalog, pulling highlights from albums like The Shadow of Your Smile ("Take Me to Aruanda"), Look to the Rainbow ("Lugar Bonito [Pretty Place]"), and A Certain Smile, a Certain Sadness ("Tu, Mi Delirio"). Her beguiling delivery of these bossa nova, samba, and American jazz tracks reveals why she became an international star.



Astrud Gilberto - Non-Stop To Brazil   (flac  238mb)

01 (Take Me To) Aruanda 2:25
02 Bim Bom 1:50
03 I Had The Craziest Dream 2:21
04 Tu Mi Delirio 3:39
05 On My Mind 2:41
06 Look To The Rainbow 3:26
07 Agua De Beber 2:18
08 Call Me 3:20
09 Oba, Oba 1:59
10 Never My Love 2:53
11 Crickets Sing For Anamaria 1:33
12 Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) 2:19
13 Lugar Bonita (Pretty Place) 3:18
14 Meditation 2:39
15 Nao Bate O Corocao 1:35
16 Non-Stop To Brazil 2:26
17 So Finha De Ser Com Voce 2:15
18 Nega Do Cabelo Duro 2:18

Astrud Gilberto - Non-Stop To Brazil    (ogg 99mb)

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