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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 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 InchThe Girl from IpanemaInch and InchCorcovadoInch, into an internationally celebrated musician. Album Tracks 1. The Girl from Ipanema 2. Doralice 3. Para Machuchar Meu Coracao 4. Desafinado 5. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) 6. S Dano Samba 7. O Grande Amor 8. Vivo Sohando
