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| Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa – Jazz Samba Encore! Verve V6-8523, MGM Records, USA, 1963 |
Musical Thrift Store Treasures is starting to look more and more like a Who's Who Named Maria. The newest addition in this category is the singer Maria Toledo (1937-2010), the first singer to record bossa nova with Stan Getz, and married to the composer (and Getz collaborator) Luiz Bonfa. Jazz Samba Encore! features besides Getz, Toledo, and Bonfa, also Antonio Carlos Jobim, another Brazilian composer (beside Bonfa) whose fame did in retrospect outshine Getz'. Jazz Samba Encore! was the follow up album to the hugely successful Jazz Samba (Stan Getz with Charlie Byrd) and the precursor to Getz/Gilberto, an even huger success than Jazz Samba. While Jazz Samba is a very familiar record (with the hit Desafinado) in numerous collections, and Getz/Gilberto (with its Girl from Ipanema) a requirement for any record collection, I had never seen or heard Jazz Samba Encore! A simple on-line inquiry to these three records show that there is a fourth one in the "Getz goes bossa nova series". Getz/Gilberto Volume 2 comes like the other three with a signature painting by Olga Albizu on the cover.
Listen to the song Menina Flor, written by Luiz Bonfa and Maria Toledo.
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