The Best of Two Worlds Featuring Joao Gilberto

Artist: Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 074643370325
EAN: 0074643370325
ASIN: B00000255D

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

Double Rainbow
Aguas De Marco (Waters Of March)
Ligia
Falsa Bahiana
Retrato En Branco E Prieto (Picture In Black And White)
Izaura (You Know I Just Shouldn't Stay)
Eu Vim Da Bahia
Joao Marcello
E Preciso Perdoar
Just One Of Those Things

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Customer Reviews:

Underrated.......2005-09-19

This also has been a favorite of mine for thirty years. There are flaws but also many gems. Getz may have been in a bad way but his solos flow perfectly with the music. Gilberto is a joy as always.

Getz phones it in.......2004-12-19

After "Getz/Gilberto" the second best selling Jazz album of all time behind "Kind of Blue", the record companies were anxious for another golden egg.

However this is one of the worst periods in Stan Getz life, the 70's. Personal problems, and he was locked in the the bitterest divorce case in history, went to the Supreme Court! Things added to his orange juice...

Joao Gilberto also has a good reason to have a grudge against Getz but it doesn't show here, he is as mellow as usual. A trooper. His singing and guitar & Heloise hold the day, while Getz pretty much phones it in. What's good on this album comes from him.

For better Getz, pick any other decade or his life. For some reason all of the Getz Columia recordings are really bass thin and harsh. This one is less so, but no exception.

See my list for many better Getz recordings.

Great Music, Horrible Production.......2004-09-11

I don't think the playing is as poor as others have claimed, but the production quality is just miserable. I can't believe that Columbia can't re-master this and at least take out the most obvious flaws in volume, "muddy-ness," etc. I'd be happy to buy it again if it sounded better!

desert island disc.......2004-01-07

I've been listening to this album for over twenty years and it never loses its appeal. It ranks among my personal top ten albums and remains as fresh and engaging as it did when I first heard it. I can't recommend this highly enough (and really don't understand what the other reviewer meant by problems with volume - maybe he had a bad disc?). Buy this CD - you won't regret it.

Agreed...this one should have been history, but..........2003-08-23

The very first thing I recognized about this LP (yes, it was an LP when I first heard it in 1976) was that Getz was not right. "The Sound" simply was not there. But, I loved Joao so much that I devoured "Ligia", and "Eu Vim da Bahia" and tried to ignore that Stan was slumping. "Double Rainbow" is a wonderful tune, and, again I simply tried to ignore Heloisa Buarque's occasional foray into off-key and Getz' muddled production in order to get to Joao's wonderful high-fretboard work to the ending. Still, over the years I went to the LP in order to learn the tunes - and then one day I found Joao had a CD of most of the same tunes ALL BY HIMSELF. This was, to me, the clue that he was not at all satisfied with the recording either. His CD is flawless and 5 star. This one I do give a few stars simply for "Ligia" and "Falsa Bahiana" where Getz at least gets a few off. The original liner notes were written by Gene Lees, and he, too, must share some blame for touting so loudly what is clearly a sub-par recording.

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