Astrud Gilberto - c/d, s/d

"Bim Bom" is one of the best tropicalia songs ever.

otmfm

I still have hopes for her though. I'd like to hear her other stuff.

Has she done anything else with Jobim?

One slightly lesser-known track to search: "A Certain Sadness." While you're at it, also search Dubstar's cover of it.

Francoise Hardy thirded by the way. Can I recommend (if you don't already own it) Ma Jeunesse Fout le Camp - for me her definitive original album.

But like I say, I only mildly dissent--I love Astrud's version of "Water to Drink" and many others, just don't think she's half the singer that Regina/Miucha/Costa are. And, Elis's stuff is so badly compiled, and there's a lot of her work that is over-florid/bad rock music, etc. So--if you can find it (good luck) there's one called "O Melhor de Elis" that's the best single-disc comp; of course, "Elis & Tom"; and the '66 "Elis"; and "Elis in London."

Elis is pretty sexy too, in a strange way...

Lately I'm kind of fond of Now, one of Astrud's US 70s recordings -- I like her version of "Take it Easy, Brother Charlie," and then I just get some amusement out of some of the soft-focus Muppet-Movie schlock and that crops up in spots.

ha, this is one of my favourite bits actually - i love the way she just misses that note. if you dislike slightly missed notes then astrud isnt the girl for you.

not all the songs work, but some are outstanding - Wailing of the Willows, Trains and Boats and Planes, Beginnings (Chicago!)

she really is amazing, i'd take her voice over just about anyone, fuck the haters.

I was just listening to her '60s-era Verve singles in order & it's funny how it becomes apparent that Verve were trying to sell her as a pop/jazz singer rather than just a Brazilian singer, even with that unconventional voice of hers. September 17, 1969 is to me her most astonishing LP (it contains "Let Go") and it was her last for Verve. She also released two very good and very pop non-LP singles in 1968-69, "Come Softly to Me," (the song the Fleetwoods had a hit with) and "The Thought of Loving You." The more I listen the more I appreciate how much good stuff is on all of the 1965-1970 albums - plus the one on the CTI label and Now from 1972. There's always that schizophrenic confusion about what kind of singer she's trying to be - she's not Elis Regina, but she's not Claudine Longet either - and yet the personality is always there. It's nice music to fall asleep with.

<3 some of her pop covers (Association's Windy, Chicago's Beginnings, etc)

Most of her s/d can be sorted by orchs (Al Cohn, Claus Ogerman, Don Sebesky, Gil Evans, Marty Paich, etc)

So which orchs are s and which d?

I love EVERYTHING by her.

I have no taste :-(

But for others, I think it might largely come down to this.

the final 2 verve records are A+

http://www.kalamu.com/bol/wp-content/content/images/gilberto%20with%20turrentine%20cover.jpg

^sick album

I need to get those Turrentine sessions.

This: http://www.bossa.net/image/A/Astrud_Gilberto/I_HaventGotAnything-thumb.jpg

is just lovely lovely lovely.

^^^ Why was everything cooler in the '60s?

What was her first language, anyway - I read somewhere that she was ethnically German..

i don't have any of her 70s stuff,this is fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhtMELSwaA

1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dll6UQmXrno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPgtzqNN-U

the fact that it's 2019 and there is still not an astrud gilberto boxset offends me deeply.

this is the closest thing i could find. smh.

Book I’m reading recommends her record with the James Last Orchestra!

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GF1CcPtKeU

Oh shit! Will admit I'd thought she'd passed already. Great vocalist.

Rest In Peace. Always found her voice lovely. I also didn't know until recently how sad her story in the music business is/was. And Stan Getz...what a tool.

She managed to have some kind of career despite the naysayers. RIP.

awww RIP Astrud, such a beguiling voice.
I was just playing her album "I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do" the other day (and thinking of posting the cover on the I've Got My Own Album to Do thread)

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/astrud-gilberto-death-girl-from-ipanema-b2352188.html

Her son also asserts that her reputation in Brazil never reflected her massive contribution to the country’s music scene. She once stated that she was “very hurt” by the attitude of the Brazilian media.

“Brazil turned its back on her,” said Marcelo. “She achieved fame abroad at a time when this was considered treasonous by the press.”

After a concert in 1965, Gilberto never performed in her native country again.

Her fame was a curse, she was only in the studio as João's translator but was encouraged to take the lead vocal.

I was able to see her in Santa Barbara at a small venue and it was magical.

RIP.

RIP

Love her so much. Look to the Rainbow and The Astrid Gilberto Record albums are transporting for me.

Steve Shasta OTM. Whenever I go and actually listen to her records she always sounds really good. Reminds of the famous talent report on Fred Astaire: “Can’t sing, can’t act, can dance a little.”

(Forgot “balding” sorry)

a pillar of my life long listening diary. completely captivating voice. innovator by accident and someone i doubt i'll ever get tired of hearing. the best ever. much respect. rest well, astrud.

One of my favorite singers, for real. R.I.P.

She was partly the inspiration for a thread I started years ago about a specific contemporary vocal style: birth of the flattened cool: the origins of the indie voice?

She's one of the touchstones of a kind of singing I think of as flattened cool, that whole urbane sophisticate thing. Flirtatious but inaccessible.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:23 PM (seventeen years ago)

otm then and now, my friend.

Lol didn’t even scroll back but yeah

RIP
No Space-Age Bachelor Pad is complete without a copy of A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (the Walter Wanderley collab).

one of a kind!! Rip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYnBFvEf708

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBBvTW4Ccw0

Reminding me of a novel that starts out with her that I might tell y'all more about later.

Jamming this right now. The precision and lightness of her notes, like a skipped stone that never sinks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ot7vjuFvc

posted this one on the gil evans topic recently -because, like i said, she's always in rotation- and it's some pretty serious business-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH7JdtXrWQM
"maria quiet" (1966)

also there's a lot less of it, but her 70s material is awesomely all over the place. disco "girl from ipnamea", jorge ben covers in japanese, the cti record with stan turrentine - it's all great!

RIP -- fell in love with her voice in college and spent countless nights studying to it.

always loved her version of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYr9yhCE2xc

I met the guy who produced and arranged that. Haven't seen him since a while before the pandemic though.

That is lovely. Who was the producer/arranger if I may ask?

Guy named Al Gorgoni. Who was a session guitarist on some big hits in the early sixties, then did some producing and songwriting with his business partner Chip Taylor, notably for Evie Sands, which album sort of disappeared into the void for a while because of the Red Bird fiasco (Record man George Goldner etc.). He finally ended up in the jingle business. I met him because he was working on his classical guitar chops with the father of Julian Koster.

Thanks. The name does ring a bell, probably from reading it on record labels.

Whenever I hear her '60s albums on the Verve label in the wild I think, these records are really perfect in an uncanny way. She didn't have a showcase voice but the recordings are such that they always sound amazing in any environment and you can't really imagine them being better.

Some of my favorite winter sunny Sunday morning music.