release date: May 1965
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5]
Tracklist: 1. "Once I Loved" - 2. "Água de Beber" (feat. Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 3. "Meditation (I Will Wait for You)" - 4. "And Roses and Roses" - 5. "O Morro (Não tem Vez)" - 6. "How Insensitive" - 7. "Dindi" - 8. "Photograph" - 9. "Dreamer" - 10. "Só tinha de ser com você" - 11. "All That's Left Is to Say Goodbye"
Studio debut album by Astrud Gilberto, who had become worldwide famous for her fragile latin English on the great Getz / Gilberto (1963) album featuring Stan Getz and Astrud's husband, João Gilberto for her participation on especially "The Girl from Ipanema", although, she was never part of the ensemble that stood behind the perhaps most important and best known album of bossa nova [Stan, well he just wouldn't have that...].
This is a strong debut thanks to Astrud but also Antonio Carlos Jobim. The style is very much the same as on the famous Getz / Gilberto album, which means bossa nova. Here just without the beauty of Stan's sax.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5 stars ]
