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Chega de Saudade is the debut album by Brazilian musician João Gilberto and is often credited as the first bossa nova album. The title can be translated roughly as "enough with longing", though the Portuguese word saudade carries with it more complex meaning.
João Gilberto (born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira – Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s.
João Gilberto made the second recorded version of the song, also in 1958. [1] Released as a single, Gilberto's version became a hit and consolidated bossa nova as a permanent genre in the Latin music lexicon. In addition to its release as a single, the song also appeared on Gilberto's first album, Chega de Saudade.
Internationally he is best known for his 1960 song Estate, a standard that has been performed by many jazz musicians and singers since the early 1960s, including João Gilberto, Joe Diorio, Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Shirley Horn, Eliane Elias, Michel Petrucciani, Monty Alexander, Mike Stern, John Pizzarelli and Robert Jospé.
"Music Box Dancer" is an instrumental piece by Canadian musician Frank Mills that was an international hit in the late 1970s. It features an arpeggiated piano theme in C-sharp major (enharmonic to D-flat major ) designed to resemble a music box , accompanied by other instruments playing a counterpoint melody as well as a wordless chorus.
Since the start of her career, New York-born Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto has put out albums rooted in the South American nation's rich musical history. “It is a love letter to him ...
Getz/Gilberto was widely acclaimed by music critics, who praised Gilberto's vocals and the album's bossa nova groove and minimalism. Getz/Gilberto received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group and Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical; it also became the first non-American album to win Album of the Year, in 1965.
João Gilberto, Fred Bongusto 5. "Estate" Bruno Martino, Bruno Brighetti: 6. "Lá Vem a Baiana" Dorival Caymmi: 7. "Corcovado" Antônio Carlos Jobim: 8. "Doralice" Dorival Caymmi, Antonio de Almeida: 9. "Rosa Morena" Dorival Caymmi: 10. "Desafinado" Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça: 11. "Saudade da Bahia" Dorival Caymmi: 12. "O pato ...