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On the turntable
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The Riviera SoundNo. 7 of the Continental 100
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz & João Gilberto · 1964
The record that taught the northern hemisphere how to be warm.
Why it matters
A Philadelphian tenor player, a Bahian guitarist who sings as though he is trying not to wake anyone, and Jobim at the piano. Bossa nova had already happened in Brazil; this is where it arrived everywhere else. Sixty years of hotel terraces owe it a debt.
The Continental setting
Noon, a terrace above the water, the second bottle of something cold and unserious.
Start here
- 01The Girl from Ipanema
- 02Corcovado
- 03Desafinado
The most civilised meeting of two continents ever recorded.
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