Stan Getz: Getz / Gilberto

Limited vinyl LP pressing of this classic 1964 album. One of the biggest-selling jazz albums of all time. not to mention bossa nova's finest moment. Getz/Gilberto trumped jazz samba by bringing two of bossa nova's greatest innovators - guitarist/singer João Gilberto and composer/pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim - to New York to record with Stan Getz. The results were magic. It's release helped fuel the bossa nova craze in the United States and internationally. becoming the first Grammy Award-winning album from non-American artists. It brought together Stan Getz. who had already performed the genre on his LP Jazz Samba. João Gilberto (one of the creators of the style). and Jobim. a celebrated Brazilian composer (and also one of the main creators of the genre). who wrote most of the songs in the album. It became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. and turned Astrud Gilberto. who sang on the tracks "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado". into an internationally celebrated musician.