Chega de saudade stan getz biography
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A friend recently stumbled over the Portuguese word &#;saudade&#;. So as we helped her up, we took a look at the word, which is a term, which is a concept, which is a whole emotional world. Wikipedia describes it thus:
…a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return. …a &#;vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist…a deep longing or yearning for something which does not exist or is unattainable. Saudade was once described as &#;the love that remains&#; or &#;the love that stays&#; after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It can be described as an emptiness, like someone
(e.g., one&#;s children, parents, s • ________________________ page originally published on 4 October ; latest edit: 18 November ________________________ Tereza da praia (Tom Jobim and Billy Blanco) Lúcio Alves & Dick Farney, (?). The recording belongs in a class of pre-Bossa Nova music called sambas-canções. . (below) a later live performance bygd the pair . What is Bossa Nova? Citing Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileir, Wikipedia offers the following brief summary in the New beat in the s: the Bossa Nova section of its Samba page: A movement was born in the southern area of Rio de Janeiro, strongly influenced by jazz, marking [?] the history of samba and Brazilian popular music in the s. The bossa nova emerged at the end of that decade, with an original rhythmic accent which divided the phrasing of the samba and added influences of impressionist music and jazz and a different style of singing which was both intimate and gentl • Album by Stan Getz and João Gilberto Getz/Gilberto is an album by American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, featuring pianist and composer Antônio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim), who also composed many of the tracks. It was released in March by Verve Records. The album features the vocals of Astrud Gilberto on two tracks, "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") and "Corcovado". The artwork was done by artist Olga Albizu.[1]Getz/Gilberto is a jazz and bossa nova album and includes tracks such as "Desafinado", "Corcovado", and "Garota de Ipanema". The last received a Grammy Award for Record of the Year and started Astrud Gilberto's career. "Doralice" and "Para Machucar Meu Coração" strengthened Gilberto's and Jobim's respect for the tradition of pre-bossa nova samba. Getz/Gilberto is considered the record that popularized bossa nova worldwide and is one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, selling over one milli Chega de Saudade () and the origins of Bossa Nova
Getz/Gilberto