gvopedz Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 Astrud Gilberto, whose dreamy interpretation of The Girl from Ipanema became the most popular version of the song, has died aged 83. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/06/astrud-gilberto-bossa-nova-singer-of-the-girl-from-ipanema-dies-aged-83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 What a beautiful stamp she's left on this world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 RIP. I love her. Her version of Chicago's "Beginnings" is definitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 Indelible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 RIP, she was an icon, and a survivor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 1 hour ago, felser said: RIP, she was an icon, and a survivor. Do you know anything about her time in Philly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pim Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 Oh dear I did not even realize she was still around! Rest in peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 Ah man, this is sad. She had such a timeless quality to her voice and beauty to match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 Here's a short but sweet appreciation https://thebluemoment.com/2023/06/06/astrud-gil/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 Pretty sad what Getz did to her: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/astrud-gilberto-girl-from-ipanema-b2006879.html She transformed everything she did into her own thing. I never got tired of listening to her, and had to hear her version of a song before I heard anyone else's. Rest in Peace, Astrud... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 4 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said: Do you know anything about her time in Philly? No, though I'm aware she was here. She kept a low profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 So many Brazilian singers I prefer. . . yet she had her own way. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 I think she transcended the notion of "Brazilian singer" even though she was a singer from Brazil and sang a lot of Brazilian song. Apparently there was no love lost between them for a good bit of a while and she never went back home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 RIP. She was one of my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted June 6, 2023 Report Share Posted June 6, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, JSngry said: I think she transcended the notion of "Brazilian singer" even though she was a singer from Brazil and sang a lot of Brazilian song. Apparently there was no love lost between them for a good bit of a while and she never went back home. Personally I don't see it that way. She may have tried to escape the label of Brazilian singer and patriate (mainly I would say due to political changes at home), but she remained one at the core. That's how I see it. Vive la difference. Edited June 6, 2023 by jazzbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GA Russell Posted June 7, 2023 Report Share Posted June 7, 2023 Here is a Joao Donato song called Nao Tem Nada, Nao. I'm pretty sure that I have Astrud doing this, but I can't find it. Does anybody recognize it? Did Astrud do it? Is it the same as Crickets Sing for Anamaria? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted June 7, 2023 Report Share Posted June 7, 2023 After some research, I find that the two above songs are both compositions by Marcos Valle. Similar, so that is the source of my confusion. Bing AI says that Astrud did not record Nao Tem Nada, Nao. Maybe I am familiar with somebody else's rendition of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted June 7, 2023 Report Share Posted June 7, 2023 I heard her once in 1985 at Hollabrunn Jazz Festival. The remarkable thing was, that the first musician scheduled was Miles Davis, and after that was Astrud, and the musicians of Davis´ group all were in the audience listening to Astrud. I don´t know if Miles also listened from a more hidden place. I know that Miles once praised the Getz-Gilberto album and one of his themes from the electric period "Maisha" also was a pure bossa nova with that light bossa feeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted June 7, 2023 Report Share Posted June 7, 2023 6 hours ago, Gheorghe said: I heard her once in 1985 at Hollabrunn Jazz Festival. The remarkable thing was, that the first musician scheduled was Miles Davis, and after that was Astrud, and the musicians of Davis´ group all were in the audience listening to Astrud. I don´t know if Miles also listened from a more hidden place. I know that Miles once praised the Getz-Gilberto album and one of his themes from the electric period "Maisha" also was a pure bossa nova with that light bossa feeling. On the theme of musicians listening to other musicians, a friend who saw the Gillespie and Coltrane groups in Newcastle upon Tyne in November 1961 told me that Trane sat in the audience during the Gillespie set and laughed his head off at Dizzy's clowning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted June 7, 2023 Report Share Posted June 7, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, JSngry said: I think she transcended the notion of "Brazilian singer" even though she was a singer from Brazil and sang a lot of Brazilian song. Apparently there was no love lost between them for a good bit of a while and she never went back home. Agreed. Astrud was to Verve what Claudine Longet was to A&M - an alluring, somewhat mysterious female singer doing the 1960s International Jet Set songbook, consisting of tunes by Jobim, Legrand, Mancini, Bacharach, Morrricone, Jimmy Webb, Tony Hatch, and Lennon/McCartney. Her last 3 Verve albums have minimal Brazilian content. The choice was either Astrud's, or that of Verve's A&R department. Edited June 7, 2023 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MomsMobley Posted June 8, 2023 Report Share Posted June 8, 2023 (edited) 16 hours ago, JSngry said: respectfully, I have to side with the dissenters here. a WKCR host did a three-hour long Astrud show tonight-- seemed like three weeks it was so g.d. repetitive, and mostly insipid. Softly sung fake Chet Baker w/ a Brazilian accent, slow song, medium tempo song repeat repeat repeat, by the time she gets to "Light My Fire" (why not "Celebration of the Lizard" or The End" also? Or at least "Peace Frog"!) I'm ready to shed a tear too... ... and then listen to three weeks of nothing but DELLA REESE to cleanse myself. Edited June 8, 2023 by MomsMobley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted June 8, 2023 Report Share Posted June 8, 2023 RIP. She was uniquely Brasilian through and through even though she didn’t spend a lot of time in Brasil later on. I happened to be living in São Paulo when the song came out, which, ironically, was right around the time the military overthrew Joao Goulart. I remember both events well (although the coup d’etat a bit more vividly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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