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Stan Getz with Guest Artist Laurindo Almeida | 
 enlarge | Artist: Stan Getz
Label: Verve
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 93869
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 001117402
UPC: 602517679238
EAN: 0602517679238
ASIN: B0017YWH18
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Minina Moca [Young Lady] | | • | Once Again [Otra Vez] | | • | Winter Moon | | • | Do What You Do, Do | | • | Samba Da Sahra [Sahra's Samba] | | • | Maracatu-Too |
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Album Description
Japanese 24-bit remastered reissue packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. Verve. 2004.
Album Details
24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Getz's Best Instrumental Bossa Nova May 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my favorite Getz bossa nova album. Almeida is excellent throughout, and his guitar is better recorded and more up-front than Charlie Byrd's on Jazz Samba.
I don't care for the vocals on Getz/Gilberto, and for me Getz works best without vocalists in any case--he is the vocalist. Almeida also has a voice here that's ear-catching, far more so than Byrd on Jazz Samba. I like Jazz Samba as well, but on this album, the players overall "get" the music a bit better (perhaps because it features more Brazilian musicians than Jazz Samba).
So if you like your Getz bossa nova w/o vocals, I'd suggest you start here and then check out Jazz Samba and Jazz Samba Encore--that has some vocals, but they're very good.
A Classic May 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Laurindo Almeida is one of my favorite guitarists. He was a real talent, perhaps in the shadow of some of the other greats from Brazil when Bossa Nova was so popular like Baden Powell, Luiz Bonfa, Joao Gilberto, etc. etc. But here I think he shines brightly with none other than Stan Getz who really was "the Sound".
I can't say it enough - I love this album. Granted, it is very short - just under 30 minutes of music. But in that time you have some tracks that take you to that time, to a summer sunset. Listening to the vinyl though hold's something a bit more special to me, but both formats have all the songs from the feature - the difference being that the CD actually has an additional track - a rendition to "Corcovado". But I love Menina Moca and I think my other favorite is Maracatu-Too. It's almost impossible not to like the bossa in that song, which keeps the track so tight and moving... let alone Stan Getz's guitar layered over the piano and Laurindo's guitar as the notes take off.
Definitely check this one out. I think it's woefully underrated out of all of the great Stan Getz Bossa Nova collaborations. It's purely a matter of taste but it's certainly one of my top two, if not number one (depending on the mood). And if you do like this, check out Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz Big Band Bossa Nova and especiall Getz/Bonfa, which features Luiz Bonfa's wife, Maria Toledo, with stunning & haunting vocals.
 Warning: This is the MONO version! October 22, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I would have really loved to have a modern CD transfer of this great album, but unfortunately this overpriced Japanese "mini LP" CD is the mono version.
 Bossa Nova June 9, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Probably anyone who likes bossa nova will like this mid-60s album containing great songs such as the ballad "Winter Moon", the lively, percussive "Maracatu-Too", and the standard "Corcovado". The recording isn't perfect, but it sufficiently displays the tones of Getz' sax and Almeida's guitar. The total time is quite short for CD, about a half-hour, but that's a minor concern considering the quality of the music.
Another Bossa Nova Classic February 8, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is another Bossa Nova classic from the master of that style. I agree with previous reviewers that this record is as good as Getz/Gilberto and Jazz Samba. All tracks are sensational with beautiful flowing lines from Stan's sax.
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