Verve / Analogue Productions CVRJ 8432 SA - Hybrid  SACD  Stereo - 753088843266 -

Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound

This is the first true bossa nova album by jazz artists, the one that began the wave. The name Stan Getz can easily be tied to bossa nova whenever the music is being discussed in jazz circles but would audiences have ever known of bossa nova if not for Charlie Byrd? The sessions for Jazz Samba were arranged only after Byrd played records he'd gotten in Brazil for Getz. The results: a groundbreaking #1 album and a document of jazz history.

The words "bossa nova" are often synonymous with the name Stan Getz. But North Americans might not have ever known the bright sound of bossa nova had it not been for Charlie Byrd. In 1961 Byrd returned from a tour of South America, where bossa nova music was thriving. The style was the invention of singer Joao Gilberto and songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim - an adaptation of infectious Brazilian samba rhythms with the harmonic structures and "cool" surface of West Coast jazz. Byrd brought back records for Getz to hear, they planned a session, and the result was Jazz Samba - the first album of true bossa nova music by jazz artists and the one that broke the bossa nova wave in 1960s America

Stan Getz, tenor saxophone
Charlie Byrd, guitar
Keter Betts, bass
Gene Byrd, bass, guitar
Buddy Deppenschmidt, drums
Antonio Carlos Jobim, guitar
Bill Reichenbach, drums

Stan Getz And Charlie Byrd Jazz Samba

1.  Desafinado
2.  Samba Dees Days
3.  O Pato
4.  Samba Triste
5.  Samba de Uma Nota So
6.  E Luxo S6
7.  Behia (aka Baia)
8.  Desafinado