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Charlie Byrd - Sugarloaf Suite (1979) and The Bossa Nova Years (1991) Earl Klugh - Late Night Guitar (1980) Stan Getz & Cybill Shepherd - Mad About The Boy (1980) Tania Maria - Piquant (1980) Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Abraça Jobim (1981) Susannah McCorkle - Dream (1987) George Shearing & Hank Jones - The Spirit of 176 (1988) Stanley Turrentine ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... Category: Bossa nova songs.
[4] [5] While bossa nova has not usually been regarded as having political themes, [6] the song became one of the genre's only protest songs due to its subject surrounding the favelas. [7] [8] [9] The phrase "o morro não tem vez" has since been used in opposition of economic injustice in Brazil. [10]
Along with Jobim's original compositions, the album features three standards from the Great American Songbook, ("Change Partners", "I Concentrate on You", and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads") arranged in the bossa nova style. Sinatra and Jobim followed up this album with sessions for a second collaboration, titled Sinatra-Jobim.
"Desafinado" was originally a response to critics who claimed that the bossa nova genre was created for singers who can't sing. English language lyrics were written by Jon Hendricks and "Jessie Cavanaugh" (a pseudonym used by The Richmond Organisation ).
"A felicidade" ("Happiness") is a bossa nova song by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes, composed in 1958 for the French film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). [1] The theme of the song is the fragility of happiness. The lyrics begin: "Tristeza não tem fim. Felicidade sim" ("Sadness has no ending. Happiness does").
"Pensativa" is a bossa nova jazz standard by American pianist/composer/arranger Clare Fischer, first recorded in 1962 by a quintet under the joint leadership of Fischer and saxophonist Bud Shank, and released that year as part of an album entitled Bossa Nova Jazz Samba, comprising music in this style, as per its title, all of it arranged by ...
"Wave" (also known as "Vou Te Contar" in Portuguese; "I am going to tell you" in English) is a bossa nova and jazz standard song written by Antônio Carlos Jobim.Recorded as an instrumental on his 1967 album of the same name, its English lyrics were written by Jobim himself later that year.