release date: 1966
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
Tracklist: 1. "Berimbau" - 2. "Once Upon a Summertime" - 3. "Felicidade" - 4. "I Will Wait for You (Love Theme From Umbrellas of Cherbourg)" - 5. "Frevo" - 6. "Maria Quiet (Maria Moita)" - 7. "Look to the Rainbow" - 8. "Bim Bom" - 9. "Lugar bonito (Pretty Place)" - 10. "E preciso aprender a ser so (Learn to Live Alone)" - 11. "She's a Carioca"
4th studio album by Astrud Gilberto (including the collaboration album Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley, also 1966). This is my favorite Astrud Gilberto album. The highly praised debut is in my mind more of an expansion of her vocal jazz and bossa nova music with Getz / Gilberto (1963), but this is more herself. She has turned back to her speciality: the Brazilian bossa nova styled compositions with her quiet fragile vocal guiding the listener through the tracks. There's still a few standards on this album but not the vocal demanding ones as she tried on her second album. She doesn't have the big singing voice but she has a fine jazz understanding which really comes through on this.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5 stars ]
1966 Favourite releases: 1. Otis Redding Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul - 2. Dexter Gordon Gettin' Around' - 3. Astrud Gilberto Look to the Rainbow
