Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10384 in Music
• Released on: 1997-09-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
This is the album that launched the samba craze in the United States in the early 1960s and thus was responsible for the bossa nova appearing in any movie scene that required an atmosphere of fun and cocktails. Not that one should blame either Stan Getz or Charlie Byrd for the appearance of lazy directors or indeed lazy musicians who took up the craze. For Jazz Samba rollocks along with Getz's tenor and Byrd's guitar and if it in truth isn't exactly Latin music then, frankly, who cares? It swings. It includes "Desafinado", which in a shortened form was a big hit at the time, but was improved upon a year later when Getz recruited an unknown singer called Astrud Gilberto to record "A Girl From Ipanema" (available on Getz/Gilberto). That was in the then future, in 1963 Jazz Samba shuffled along into a nation's hearts and their dancing shoes. --Phil Brett

Amazon.com essential recording
Guitarist Charlie Byrd was invited to travel and play in Brazil during a cultural goodwill tour sponsored by the Kennedy administration in 1961. He was completely enamoured by 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), and Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach (drums), Byrd 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

Chronique amazon.fr
Stan Getz et le guitariste Charlie Byrd cosignent, en 1962, une ode à la samba et à la bossa-nova. Ils rencontrent alors un succès qui ne sera jamais démenti. Un rythme enlevé sur de belles ballades, teintées par la permanence du souffleur west-coastien et la présence agile du guitariste. Là se tissent les fils absolus de l'écheveau sud-américain. Précurseurs du jazz latino, les deux compères nous font découvrir ces rythmes redoublés à la chaleur du sud, avec la précision et le lyrisme de deux grands du jazz. --Jean-Michel Schlosser