Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

To a Brazilian mother and German father, Astrud Gilberto was born in Bahia, still Brazil's most Africanized state. With her two sisters she grew up in Rio de Janeiro, where she met and married singer-guitarist-songwriter João Gilberto, one of bossa-nova's originating stylists. In the early 1960s, when that Brazilian music, with its cooling melodies and hot, hip style emigrated from Rio to the rest of the world, your heart and all the rest of you opened to its sound. Your whole body pulsed to its stretchable Africa-based beat. There had been Jazz vocalists before Astrud Gilberto whose singing suggested and evoked a feeling of innocence, shyness, coyness, even vulnerability. Peggy Lee, Blossom Dearie, Jeri Southern, and Bob Dourough float to mind. Dave Frishberg and the feisty, flirtatious René Marie also project an audible naiveté that charms and disarms. Although each of these singers, on first hearing, may sound “natural” or “untrained,” the truth is that each has made “artlessness” into an art. Among master deliverers of the casual-sounding, off-handed vocal, Astrud Gilberto stands out. Her crisp Brazilian accent flavors every English vowel and consonant she utters. The lyrics to all the songs she has performed and recorded during her long career suggest her own sentiments and philosophy. An ardent advocate of animal rights and world peace, Gilberto composes and arranges some of the music she performs nowadays. Decades ago, if she picked Benny Carter and Sammy Chan’s “Only Trust Your Heart,” or Burton Lane and Yip Harburg’s “Look to the Rainbow,” she might have been letting her listeners know what mattered to her. Love has been key. Indeed, love is Gilberto’s favorite, if not her only subject. Sensually and philosophically, the song lyrics she favors give her plenty of room to flirt, sigh, whisper, pout, hug, kiss, caress, question, care, and conquer. The voice of Astrud Gilberto - guileless, believable, never cold-bloodedly professional - sometimes becomes a French horn, sometimes a tenderly bowed cello, and other times a clarinet or a breathy bamboo flute. Sometimes it even takes on the tremulous quiver of a tenor saxophone. But whether it finds itself swimming in a pond or an ocean - with intimate trio or quintet, or in full orchestral setting - Gilberto's voice, presumed to be delicate but buoyed by love, always swims home to the heart”. - Al Young *; excerpted from the liner notes of the Verve released compilation titled “Astrud for Lovers” (2004). * Al Young’s books include the novels Sitting Pretty and Who is Angelina? Mingus, Mingus: Two Memoirs (with Janet Coleman), Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990, The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000, and the forthcoming The Future of Love. Courtesy of The Verve Music Group

ALBUM

Una raccolta completa degli album di Astrud Gilberto, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.

Getz Au Go Go - The New Stan Getz Quartet, Astrud Gilberto

The New Stan Getz Quartet, Astrud Gilberto

Getz Au Go Go

Live At Café Au Go-Go, 1964 / Acoustic Sounds
  • Vinile
Great Women Of Song: Astrud Gilberto - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Great Women Of Song: Astrud Gilberto

  • Vinile
  • CD
  • Digitale
Gilberto Golden Japanese Album - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Gilberto Golden Japanese Album

  • Digitale
Gold - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Gold

  • Digitale
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best of Astrud Gilberto - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best of Astrud Gilberto

Reissue
  • Digitale
Astrud For Lovers - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Astrud For Lovers

Reissue
  • Digitale
Talkin' Verve - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Talkin' Verve

Reissue
  • Digitale
Diva - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Diva

Replacement UPC
  • Digitale
Verve Jazz Masters 9 - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Verve Jazz Masters 9

Reissue
  • Digitale
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness - Walter Wanderley, Astrud Gilberto

Walter Wanderley, Astrud Gilberto

A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness

Reissue
  • Digitale
Astrud Gilberto's Finest Hour - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto's Finest Hour

Reissue
  • Digitale
The Shadow Of Your Smile - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

The Shadow Of Your Smile

Reissue
  • Digitale
Getz Au Go-Go - The New Stan Getz Quartet, Astrud Gilberto

The New Stan Getz Quartet, Astrud Gilberto

Getz Au Go-Go

192kHz/24-bit - Reissue
  • Digitale
Getz Au Go Go - Stan Getz Quartet, Astrud Gilberto

Stan Getz Quartet, Astrud Gilberto

Getz Au Go Go

Reissue
  • Digitale
Beach Samba - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Beach Samba

  • Digitale
Look To The Rainbow - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Look To The Rainbow

  • Digitale
I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do

  • Digitale
Astrud Gilberto: Verve Ultimate Cool - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto: Verve Ultimate Cool

  • Digitale
September 17, 1969 - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

September 17, 1969

  • Digitale
Non-Stop To Brazil (Jazz Club) - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Non-Stop To Brazil (Jazz Club)

  • CD
Windy - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Windy

  • CD
  • Digitale
The Astrud Gilberto Album - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

The Astrud Gilberto Album

  • Digitale

SINGOLI

I singoli più rappresentativi di Astrud Gilberto, tra successi storici e nuove uscite.

Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) - Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz

Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz

Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)

Matchbox Youth & Pueblo Vista Remix / Visualizer
  • Digitale
Agua De Beber / The Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, uChill

Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, uChill

Agua De Beber / The Girl From Ipanema

Remix
  • Digitale
Agua De Beber - Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, uChill

Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, uChill

Agua De Beber

uChill Remix/IG2
  • Digitale
The Girl From Ipanema/Black Orpheus/Agua De Berber - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

The Girl From Ipanema/Black Orpheus/Agua De Berber

Medley/Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 25, 1970
  • Digitale
All By Myself/All Alone - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

All By Myself/All Alone

Medley/Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, September 25, 1966
  • Digitale
Agua De Beber - Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim

Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim

Agua De Beber

Official Music Video
  • Digitale
Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) - Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto

Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto

Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)

Official Video
  • Digitale
The Girl From Ipanema - Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto

Stan Getz, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto

The Girl From Ipanema

Official Video
  • Digitale
How Insensitive - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

How Insensitive

Pseudo Video
  • Digitale
Fly Me To The Moon - Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

Fly Me To The Moon

Kaskade Extended Mix / Beatport Version
  • Digitale

BIOGRAFIA



To a Brazilian mother and German father, Astrud Gilberto was born in Bahia, still Brazil's most Africanized state. With her two sisters she grew up in Rio de Janeiro, where she met and married singer-guitarist-songwriter João Gilberto, one of bossa-nova's originating stylists. In the early 1960s, when that Brazilian music, with its cooling melodies and hot, hip style emigrated from Rio to the rest of the world, your heart and all the rest of you opened to its sound. Your whole body pulsed to its stretchable Africa-based beat.

There had been Jazz vocalists before Astrud Gilberto whose singing suggested and evoked a feeling of innocence, shyness, coyness, even vulnerability. Peggy Lee, Blossom Dearie, Jeri Southern, and Bob Dourough float to mind. Dave Frishberg and the feisty, flirtatious René Marie also project an audible naiveté that charms and disarms. Although each of these singers, on first hearing, may sound “natural” or “untrained,” the truth is that each has made “artlessness” into an art.

Among master deliverers of the casual-sounding, off-handed vocal, Astrud Gilberto stands out. Her crisp Brazilian accent flavors every English vowel and consonant she utters. The lyrics to all the songs she has performed and recorded during her long career suggest her own sentiments and philosophy. An ardent advocate of animal rights and world peace, Gilberto composes and arranges some of the music she performs nowadays. Decades ago, if she picked Benny Carter and Sammy Chan’s “Only Trust Your Heart,” or Burton Lane and Yip Harburg’s “Look to the Rainbow,” she might have been letting her listeners know what mattered to her.

Love has been key. Indeed, love is Gilberto’s favorite, if not her only subject. Sensually and philosophically, the song lyrics she favors give her plenty of room to flirt, sigh, whisper, pout, hug, kiss, caress, question, care, and conquer.

The voice of Astrud Gilberto - guileless, believable, never cold-bloodedly professional - sometimes becomes a French horn, sometimes a tenderly bowed cello, and other times a clarinet or a breathy bamboo flute. Sometimes it even takes on the tremulous quiver of a tenor saxophone. But whether it finds itself swimming in a pond or an ocean - with intimate trio or quintet, or in full orchestral setting - Gilberto's voice, presumed to be delicate but buoyed by love, always swims home to the heart”.



- Al Young *; excerpted from the liner notes of the Verve released compilation titled “Astrud for Lovers” (2004).



* Al Young’s books include the novels Sitting Pretty and Who is Angelina? Mingus, Mingus: Two Memoirs (with Janet Coleman), Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990, The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000, and the forthcoming The Future of Love.


Courtesy of The Verve Music Group

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