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.
Astrud Gilberto
Great Women Of Song: Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto
Gilberto Golden Japanese Album
Astrud Gilberto
Gold
Astrud Gilberto
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection - The Best of Astrud Gilberto
Reissue
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud For Lovers
Reissue
Astrud Gilberto
Talkin' Verve
Reissue
Astrud Gilberto
Diva
Replacement UPC
Astrud Gilberto
Verve Jazz Masters 9
ReissueWalter Wanderley, Astrud Gilberto
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
Reissue
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto's Finest Hour
Reissue
Astrud Gilberto
The Shadow Of Your Smile
Reissue
The New Stan Getz Quartet, Astrud Gilberto
Getz Au Go-Go
192kHz/24-bit - Reissue
Stan Getz Quartet, Astrud Gilberto
Getz Au Go Go
Reissue
Astrud Gilberto
Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
Look To The Rainbow
Astrud Gilberto
I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto: Verve Ultimate Cool
Astrud Gilberto
September 17, 1969
Astrud Gilberto
Non-Stop To Brazil (Jazz Club)
Astrud Gilberto
Windy
Astrud Gilberto
The Astrud Gilberto Album
SINGOLI
I singoli più rappresentativi di Astrud Gilberto, tra successi storici e nuove uscite.
Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz
Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)
Matchbox Youth & Pueblo Vista Remix / Visualizer
Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, uChill
Agua De Beber / The Girl From Ipanema
Remix
Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, uChill
Agua De Beber
uChill Remix/IG2
Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema/Black Orpheus/Agua De Berber
Medley/Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 25, 1970
Astrud Gilberto
All By Myself/All Alone
Medley/Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, September 25, 1966Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim
Agua De Beber
Official Music VideoStan Getz, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto
Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)
Official VideoStan Getz, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
Official VideoAstrud Gilberto
How Insensitive
Pseudo Video
Astrud Gilberto
Fly Me To The Moon
Kaskade Extended Mix / Beatport VersionBIOGRAFIA
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
