Jazz Samba
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Jazz Samba is a bossa nova LP by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, released on the Verve label in 1963.
Jazz Samba was the first major bossa-nova album on the American jazz scene, and is often called the best-selling jazz album of all time. It was the real start of the bossa-nova excitement in America, which peaked in the early to late 1960s. Though Stan Getz was the featured star of the album, it was very strongly inspired and designed by the guitarist Charlie Byrd. He, Getz, two bassists (Keter Betts and Charlie's brother Gene (Joe) Byrd), and two drummers recorded the work at All Souls' Unitarian Church in Washington, DC on 13 February 1962, and Verve issued it early in 1963. Although it is often described as music from Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, only two of the seven tracks on the album are Jobim compositions ("Desafinado" and "Samba De Uma Nota So"), the rest being by other Brazilian composers and by Charlie Byrd. Getz won the Grammy for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for the track "Desafinado", and went on to make many other bossa-nova recordings, most notably with Joao Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto, and most famously The Girl From Ipanema.
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