In the spell of the bossa nova. It all started in Rio with a strolling girl on a terrace where Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes were sitting. They immortalized her in ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ – a world hit for Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz.
A wave of sun-soaked sounds then flooded the world: the bossa nova (‘new wave’) with warm-blooded, sensual music grew into a rage, practiced by a wide range of artists. Repertoire such as ‘Desafinado’, ‘Chega de Saudade’, ‘One Note Samba’, ‘Meditaçao’, ‘Blame it on the bossa nova’.
A palace with Ella Fitzgerald, Walter Wanderley, Eydie Gorme, Chris Connor, Frank Sinatra, Lester Lanin, Jobim, Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie, Doris Day, Howard McGhee.
And of course, the reclusive ‘inventor’ of the genre, João Gilberto, who, after earlier failures, earned the nickname ‘The Legend’ with his guitar and intimate, searching way of singing. And yet he died in 2019 under appalling circumstances.
