another bossa nova saturday
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Album:Jazz Round Midnight
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It's one of the most-recorded songs in the English (or Portugese) language, and now that we've been listening to it for more than four decades (it came out the same year as The British Invasion), it's nice to recall how fresh, sensuous and seductive it seemed when it first breezed through the airwaves.For some reason, female singers have taken to altering the gender, and singing about "The Boy from Ipanema," which not only misses the point, but ignores the fact that a female singer introduced the song. Astrud Gilberto is the detached observer, watching the guy watching the girl. Maybe Astrud has her own eye on the guy, and is wistfully wishing that he'd switch his gaze...Antonio Carlos Jobim is one of the most gifted melodists ever, and this is perhaps his signature achievement, but you'd also have to consider "Dindi," and "Corcovado," and maybe a dozen others.Here are Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, from the film "Get Yourself A College Girl":
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