Track Listing

1. Limehouse Blues
2. Take Care Of Yourself
3. Jazz 'N' Samba
4. A Man And A Woman
5. Sweet Georgia Brown
6. Chung King
7. Bluesette
8. When Your Lover Has Gone
9. Someone To Light Up My Life
10. Willow Weep For Me
11. Danza No. 5
12. Carolina In The Morning
13. One Note Samba
14. Things Ain't What/The Cheating
15. Oh Lady Be Good
16. I Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

Product Details

• Released on: 2001-06-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.com
Guitarist Charlie Byrd was invited to travel and play in Brazil during a cultural good will tour sponsored by the Kennedy administration in 1961. He was completely enamoured of the music, and when he returned, he headed straight for the recording studio to make the now classic Jazz Samba. Collaborating with Stan Getz on tenor sax, and backed by a band that included Gene Byrd (bass, guitar), Keter Betts (bass), Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach (drums), they forged a new and brilliant sound. American record companies were to churn out hundreds of watered bossa-pop albums that have since given the style its lounge-addled image, but this album stands as a tribute to the vitality and adaptability of jazz. --Louis Gibson