Joao Gilberto's Comping on Girl From Ipanema
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2023
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Wonderful playing, Ritchie! It's the real deal when you play it!
thank you.
Many thanks!!
Once again you have surprised and delighted me! Today is my birthday (69th!!!) I love this music more than anything. I will be playing along with this until I fall asleep tonight. Thanks again for all the work you put into these videos. I cannot stress how much it is appreciated. Love the nylon string guitar - for this type of music it is great I (I play a Godin Multiac Encore).
Happy Birthday! Glad you enjoy the videos, thank you kindly 🙏
that was the first bossa album i got in the early 90s, and i only bought it because i had heard of stan getz and i knew ipanema from NYC oldies radio. i was shocked when i realized it was the radio cut, and i was in awe of how amazing joao's singing is.
Miles once said he thought Joao would sound great even reading a newspaper...
@@RichieZellon wow, that's great! of course i must agree.
This is amazing! Thank you from a Brazilian
Obrigado!
Grande abraço Ritchie!!
Absolutely great ! Numa boa cara , muito obrigada !!!
Obrigado a voce!
Great lesson. Thanks.
Hello Richie - i bought this LP as was a teenager and Bossa Nova was directly going into my heart and the wonderful harmonic chordstructur opened my ears and brought me to jazz
Yup, bossa nova was also my gateway drug to the hard stuff...jazz! lol! I've been an addict ever since.
Yesterday I visited Everjazz festival in Ekaterinburg. It opened with children playing and singing some jazz standards. Try to guess what song was included into this performance for sure? 🤣
Richie, I think your half Brazilian roots help you speak such a perfect English - I enjoy it (and your delicate sense of humour) every time as much as the lesson itself.
May peace be with you!
Thanks!
very good vídeo, thanks
Whoa. Didn't know your mom was Brazilian!
I can't improvise if my life depended on it, but after about 30 years of nothing but bossa, it is now as natural as breathing. Heck, this one-trick pony can't even play "Happy Birthday' without slipping into a bossa rhythm.
Nice improv! Caught that "So Nice" reference at about 4:00. I used to sing the Portuguese melody line to Garota, but that was before I had my right thyroid gland removed, and my voice reduced to barely one octave. That was in the key of F, so much thanks for posting this. I just bought the download, hoping the original D might be closer to my sweet spot ... but then again, I sing so quietly, the cockroaches have to cock their heads to one side to hear me. 😂 Glad I'm content to just listen to the likes of Joyce, Elis, or Flora Purim.
I'm sure you know the story, but for other potential readers out there, I read about the making of that album. Joao reluctantly agreed to allow then wife, Astrud, to sing an English translation as an 'experiment' ... and sure was pissed off when he found out the producers did not erase that 'experiment'. During that recording session, one of the producers took her aside and told Astrud her life was about to change. They were right. RIP Astrud. If her former husband was one of, if not "the", fathers of that rhythm ... her voice was the quintessential voice of bossa. She could be a bit too much on the sweet side for my taste now and then, but with the right setting, she just floats over it all. For what it's worth, among my favorites featuring her voice was on the "Gilberto with Turrentine" album, especially "Ponteio" and "Mulher Rendeira".
Cheers from Japan Richie.
Thanks for sharing! I was never a big Astrud fan. Most Brazilians never liked her, although I admit she had her charm. You mentioned Flora...interestingly enough, my mom was best friends with Flora's mom and she told me she baby sat for Flora when she was very young. Both Jewish Brazilian women originally from Recife! Elis is my all time favorite! I had the honor of meeting her in Sao Paulo, back in 1974 right after she recorded the duet album with Jobim. Very cool lady! I remember my mom took me to hear her with the Zimbo Trio when I was 8 or 9 years old. No one knew who she was at the time...but that was my first exposure to jazz related music !
@@RichieZellon Wow. I wish we were chatting real time over a beer. I didn't know about the perception of Astrud in Brazil ... a bit like Japanese indifference to dislike over Yoko Ono. I do like her whispy-breathiness, but yeah, she can be a bit too saccharine at times, and doesn't have a range like Elis or Flora.
And Flora!!! She is my favorite vocalist of all time. From her family name, I guessed she had a Jewish background (have just a bit of Ashkenazi in me), but I never thought about that. To my ear ... she spans the range from feral-dangerous to light as a feather. Between her and Airto, I must have over 60 of their albums on CD, and actually briefly met and chatted with them (got their autographs - the only ones of fame I have) after a gig at the old BlueNote Tokyo, Aoyama.
I think my favorite Flora piece is the title cut of Chick's first RTF album. Still gives me chill bumps. But the cool and breezy 2nd "Light as a Feather" album was great too ... was a real contrast to that first album. Apples and oranges, but I liked the Flora/Airto RTF lineup better than the all electric line-ups to come. Maybe my favorite album of Flora's is the compilation "Milestone Memories" ... and something that brings a smile to my face is imagining teaching English to the Jr. College girls here in Japan by having them sing-along with Flora, particularly "Slaves Mass" on the Hermeto Pascoal album. First time I heard it, scares the excrement out of me. But now I like to sing along with the pig. 😂
If Flora is my favorite vocalist, Elis is close ... and far more well known than Flora. You actually met her after one of the classic albums were made? You keep very good company! I guess she would be classified more as MPB? Meh, a rose by any other name. I have only a few of her CDs, but Live at Montreux gets a lot of play. I particularly like her cover of Edu Lobo's 'Upa Neguinho' where she breaks up in laughter on stage.
I would have a hard time choosing my other top 2 bossa albums, but my number 1 would be "Tom & Elis". When Elis first came on the scene, I had read that Tom and other famous musicians kind of snickered at Elis's windmill arm waving during some pieces ... but they quickly changed their tune. My favorites on that album have to be 'Chovenda na Roreira" and "Aguas de Marco". I remember Leonard Feather once saying 'Aguas de Marco' might be the best 'popular' song ever written, and I find it hard to disagree. The lyrics alone really go well with the Taoist-Zen vibe of part of Japanese culture. Although I love the three early large band instrumental albums of Jobim, I think "Passarim" might be among my top three bossa albums too.
Oh lordy ... so much to talk about! Favorites on UA-cam including Nana Caymmi and Milton's duet of Caias, Boca Livre's live version of Caxanga, Ivan Lins' "Velas Icadas' and "Soberana Rosa" (Sting does a GREAT cover), and just about anything by Joyce. Milton, at his best is sublime ... that album with the late great Wayne Shorter and "Miracle of the Fishes", his "Clube da Esquina" is deservedly popular in Japan, and so many other good albums.
One little known album that I think doesn't get enough airplay is one of Airto and Hermeto's early albums ... Quarteto Novo. I could listen to that a thousand times and not be bored.
Got a mixed-feeling mountain drive coming up. A beautiful lady born and raised in Brazil, educated in New York, and lived in Europe for a decade is going to take a day trip to the mountains west of Tokyo with me in the van this week, our goal ... to listen to and talk about Brazilian music. But I am 68, she is 40 tops ... and I am afraid that musically, her Brazil is very different from my image of Brazil. Meh, it's all good. Besides, she is Brazilian! Nuff said. 😂
Cheers Richie!
A beautiful solo on a really "classic" tune. I was introduced to bossa nova by Carlos Galilea, of the public Spanish radio, and he always refers to Jobim as "el maestro soberano". I guess that I don't need to translate ii 😀. Thanks so much!
Gracias Antonio!
Great solo :)
Cheers
Thanks!!
RIP Astrud
Richie! Então você é meio-brasileiro! Que legal! Grande abraço aqui de ARACAJU/Sergipe!
Obrigado, outro abraco!
Very groovy music, I wish the nylon string guitar sat better in the mix, but the mp3 makes up for it.
Yes, nylon strings are so difficult to record...
Richie brother what kind of cap is that you wear ? Where can i get me one ?
That was made for me by an Indian woman in the Peruvian Andes mountains many moons ago. I can't even get a replacement...
love your channel, but too much talk
Glad you like the channel and I sincerely thank you for your feedback! However, I believe that 1:40 of talking such as in this video is not too much. That's because I don't consider myself an entertainer but an educator, and I believe "talking" is a big part of educating and teaching. Although I am aware that many agree with you and wish I would keep the talking to a minimum and just play, there are many that also disagree and thank me for the time I devote to my explanations as well as my attention to detail. Unfortunately, I can't please everyone, so I have chosen to please the latter. 😊