Stan Getz: Jazz Samba Ltd Clr

LP Record The words bossa nova are often synonymous with the name Stan Getz. But if it weren't for Charlie Byrd, North Americans might never have discovered the radiant sound of bossa nova. In 1961, Byrd returned from a tour of South America, where bossa nova music was booming. This style was the invention of singer João Gilberto and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim – an adaptation of infectious Brazilian samba rhythms with the harmonic structures and "cool" surface of West Coast jazz. Byrd brought Getz recordings to listen to, they scheduled a session, and the result was "Jazz Samba" – the first true bossa nova album by jazz artists, which kicked off the bossa nova craze in 1960s America.