João Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto

by Bryan Daniel McCann

Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "The Girl from Ipanema," is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we've all heard "The Girl from Ipanema" as background music in a thousand anodyne settings, from cocktail parties to telephone hold music. So how did Getz/Gilberto become the Brazilian album known around the world, crossing generational and demographic divides?

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501323954
• ISBN13: 9781501323959
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.7"