Getz/Gilberto had a profound influence upon the face of jazz and American popular music, exemplified by winning Album of the Year at the 1965 Grammy Awards, the first jazz album to ever win the top honor. Mastered from the original analog tapes, the album will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged by Stoughton Printing Co. Seeking to offer definitive audiophile-grade versions of some of the most historic and best jazz records ever recorded, the series, supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, the world’s largest source for audiophile recordings, utilizes the skills of the top mastering engineers and the unsurpassed production craft of Quality Record Pressings. On August 28, Getz/Gilberto will be released as the first title of Verve/UMe’s new Acoustic Sounds series. We also can’t wait for music lovers everywhere to hear how incredible the Getz/Gilberto album sounds remastered for vinyl as the inaugural title from our new Acoustic Sounds vinyl series.” “The UMe team are best in class when it comes to creating new visuals that live up to classic recordings, and we’re excited to reach new fans with the help of these videos. “The music of artists like Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim is timeless,” said Jamie Krents, EVP of Verve/Impulse!. “Summer Samba!’ continues UMe’s ongoing initiative to create engaging videos by pairing time-honored songs with exciting modern visuals.” “UMe and Verve’s unmatched catalog is filled with the amazing samba and bossa nova albums that define the genre and made the music a global phenomenon,” said Bruce Resnikoff, President & CEO of UMe. All videos are available to view at Verve’s official YouTube channel. In the coming weeks, animated videos will be released for Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto’s “Corcovado,” as well as Astrud Gilberto’s “Aqua De Beber,” one of the many highlights from her classic 1965 debut record, The Astrud Gilberto Album, celebrating its 55th anniversary this year. A number of other classic songs have received album cover videos containing album art with subtle background animations. These compelling visuals are both good for a quick mental vacation or to put on your TV for a tranquil and festive backdrop to add a tropical vibe. Visualizers for three of the most important and perpetually popular bossa nova tracks will also be released this week: Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd’s “Samba De Uma Nota So (One Note Samba)” from Jazz Samba, their 1962 album that launched the bossa nova craze in America Antônio Carlos Jobim’s “Wave,” the title track of his 1967 album and Getz/Gilberto’s “Desafinado,” sung in Portuguese by João Gilberto.Įach of the visualizers feature stylized animations and a unique color palette that perfectly match the song and capture their individual moods. In addition to the exciting, newly created video content, Getz and Gilberto’s immortal Getz/Gilberto – the album that made bossa nova a worldwide phenomenon in 1964 – will receive a definitive high-end audiophile-grade vinyl pressing as part of Verve/UMe’s newly launched Acoustic Sounds series. The month-long ‘Summer Samba!’ campaign will pair some of the biggest songs in this soothing and sensual canon with vibrant animated visuals for a host of official music videos, unique visualizers and album cover videos that will be collected together as a dynamic YouTube playlist featuring the giants of the genre including Antônio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, João Gilberto, Marcos Valle and Stan Getz, alongside Bebel Gilberto, Diana Krall and several other contemporary singers who continue to carry the torch for the music of Brazil. Nods to classic albums of the genre and revered musicians can be found throughout. A love letter to mid ‘60s Brazil, the video celebrates the music, fashion and spirit of the time as it follows a “tall and tan and young and lovely” woman as she enjoys a carefree day lounging on Ipanema beach, lazing at home listening to records, traveling by scenic gondola and ending the night, dressed in her best mod fashion, with a live performance by the legendary jazz ensemble of Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Tião Neto, Milton Banana and of course Astrud Gilberto singing the breezy tune in her signature beguiling style.
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