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Antônio Carlos Jobim: "Wave" the album
Released in 1967 on A&M Records

Track list
1."Wave"
2."The Red Blouse"
3."Look to the Sky"
4."Batidinha"
5."Triste"
6."Mojave"
7."Diálogo"
8."Lamento"
9."Antigua"
10."Captain Bacardi"

This was the album that set me free from rock & roll. My life before "Wave" was a steady diet of Beatles, Humble Pie, Grand Funk, Johnny & Edgar Winter, Deep Purple... etc. (all good and great stuff). Then, I heard "Wave" and it was as if the hand cuffs were taken off me and I was a free man; free to listen to unpopular music and enjoy it.

"Wave" could be categorized as Latin Jazz, Bossa Nova, Easy listening, Pop... it fits them all. Call it what you like, I call it good music! Best of all, the more you listen to "Wave" the more you like it.

All the best,
Mike
 
Out to Lunch said:
Astrud Gilberto (29 March 1940 - 5 June 2023)
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I did not know that she had just passed away.

Astrud Gilberto has an album titled "I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do" released on Verve Records in 1969. It's kind of a sad tender album with an interesting track list of songs. I have this album on a remastered CD. In her honor I'll dig it out of my CD vault and play it tonight. It seems like the appropriate thing to do.

Track listing:
1. "I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do (No Tengo Nada Mejor...)" (Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance)
2. "Didn't We" (Jimmy Webb)
3. "Wailing of the Willow" (Harry Nilsson)
4. "Where's the Love" (Bobby Weinstein, Michel Legrand)
5. "The Sea Is My Soil (I Remember When)" (Dori Caymmi, Nelson Motta, Peter Udell)
6. "Trains and Boats and Planes" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
7. "World Stop Turning" (Moose Charlap, Peter Udell)
8. "Without Him" (Harry Nilsson)
9. "Wee Small Hours" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann)
10. "If (The Biggest Little World)" (Garry Sherman, Peter Udell)

All the best,
Mike
 
Yokosuka_Mike said:
I did not know that she had just passed away.

Astrud Gilberto has an album titled "I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do" released on Verve Records in 1969. It's kind of a sad tender album with an interesting track list of songs. I have this album on a remastered CD. In her honor I'll dig it out of my CD vault and play it tonight. It seems like the appropriate thing to do.
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So, I did go out to my club house and find her CD... and, I played it. Not quite as melancholy as I had remembered it; actually it's good, really good stuff! I grabbed a few of her other CDs that I had and I'm listening to them now. Bossa Nova and wine... good times!

RIP Astrud, miss you!
Mike
 
Like Y-Mike, my wife and I had to listen to Astrud. She had an interesting life. Funny how Y-Mike also likes "The Wave" by Jobim. Seem to have similar taste in music?

Perhaps, but I tend to really enjoy some of the punk stuff from late 70s through 80s as well. Used to go to the gigs and even wound up working as photographer for management of some local acts (S. Calif)... Stuff like posters and "album covers". Too bad none of those bands made it. I coulda been famous. 😎
 
first evgeni koroliov playing goldberg variations; now alfred brendel playing the diabelli variations.i should probably branch out, but eh.
 
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