# CD review: Stan Getz Quartet, Astrud Gilberto – The Lost Recordings: Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1966 – 2021: Video, CD cover

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- Published: 2021-10-16T00:19:06+01:00
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**This concert of Stan Getz Quartet & Astrud Gilberto live at the berlin Jazz Festival
in 1966, is presented in its entirety as a world premiere.**

The Lost Recordings found the master tapes of this double recital in the Berlin 
radio archives. How can one not be transported by this concert, which delivers a
previously unreleased version of the tracks from the legendary 1964 album on Verve?
The label is offering the world premiere of this concert recorded at the Berlin 
Philharmonic, as part of the 1966 Berliner Jazztage. The 19 tracks of this now unforgettable
concert are added to the collection with, as always, an unequalled sound quality,
thanks to the Phoenix Mastering® process.

The concert given by Stan Getz’s quartet with Astrud Gilberto on November 4, 1966,
was a sort of contretemps. In these crazy years when everything is rushing, things
have indeed changed in the lives and careers of the two main protagonists who, after
a fleeting romance, have each regained their personal and artistic independence.
The opening bars of “Samba de Uma Nota so” instantaneously wrought the magic of 
the reunion. As if time had stood still, the hesitant fragility of Astrud’s voice
against the foggy, iridescent sounds of Gary Burton’s vibraphone, amplified by the
airy countermelody of Getz’s saxophone, recreated all the freshness and innocence
of the legendary recording of 1964. In an astutely compiled suite of bossa nova 
standards (“Voce e eu” by Gilberto Gil, “Corcovado” and “The Girl from Ipanema” 
by Jobim) combined with compositions that were jazzier in both form and spirit (“
Jive Hoot” de Bob Brookmeyer and the sentimental standards “The Shadow of your Smile”
and “It Might As Well Be Spring”) Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz perform with restraint
yet communicate their joy of playing together. Instead of giving the impression 
of a return to the past, they give life to this sensual, melancholic music as if
they were falling in love with the offspring of their respective musical passion.

01. On Green Dolphin Street (Live) (6:48)
 02. Introduction by Stan Getz (Live) (
0:52) 03. The Singing Song (Live) (3:13) 04. The Shadow of Your Smile (Live) (5:
10) 05. O Grande Amor (Live) (6:42) 06. Blues Walk (Live) (6:38) 07. Once Upon a
Summertime (Live) (6:43) 08. Edelweiss (Live) (4:16) 09. Medley: Desafinado/Chega
De Saudade (Live) (6:50) 10. Samba De Uma Nota Só (Live) (3:44) 11. The Shadow of
Your Smile (Live Vocal Version) (3:05) 12. Você E Eu (Eu E Voce) (Live) (2:41) 13.
Corcovado (Live) (4:26) 14. The Telephone Song (Live) (2:01) 15. It Might as Well
Be Spring (Live) (4:14) 16. The Girl from Ipanema (Live) (4:11) 17. Announcement
by Stan Getz (Live) (0:38) 18. Jive Hoot (Live) (9:04) 19. Goodbye by Stan Getz (
Live) (0:58)

**Stan Getz – Saxophone**
 **Gary Burton – Vibraphone** **Chuck Israels – Double
bass** **Roy Haynes – Drums** **Astrud Gilberto – Vocals**

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