Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd Jazz Samba LP 1962 Verve V-8432 M 1st Press GRAMMY Win

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Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd Jazz Samba LP 1962 Verve V-8432 Mono 1st Pressing GRAMMY Winner
My Dad bought this new and I remember him and my Mom dancing. It was transferred to cassette and shelved
Recorded in Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington D.C., February 13, 1962.

Jazz Samba is a bossa nova album by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd released by Verve Records in 1962. Jazz Samba signaled the beginning of the bossa nova craze in America. Stan Getz was the featured soloist and the tracks were arranged by Charlie Byrd, who had first heard bossa nova during a tour of Brazil in 1961.

Getz and Byrd were accompanied by two bassists: Keter Betts and Joe Byrd, Charlie Byrd's brother who also played guitar. They were joined by two drummers: Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach. The album was recorded at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C., on February 13, 1962 and released in April of that year.

Two songs, "Desafinado" (Off Key or Out of Tune) and "Samba de Uma Nota Só" (One Note Samba) were composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and were released as singles in the U.S. and Europe. Charlie Byrd wrote one song, "Samba Dees Days", while the rest were by Brazilian composers.

Stan Getz won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for "Desafinado", and went on to make many other bossa nova recordings, notably with João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto and the popular song "The Girl from Ipanema". "Desafinado" was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, while Jazz Samba was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

One of the greatest must-haves of Bossa Nova Jazz. Jazz Samba is the album that marked the beginning of the Bossa wave in the United States and more generally in the West. A wave that reached its peak in the mid-1960s. Presented as a collaboration between guitarist Charlie Byrd and saxophonist Stan Getz, it was heavily inspired, conceived, and produced by Charlie Byrd alone. According to legend, Stan Getz and his ego stole the show by driving the point home with the album Getz Gilberto released in 1963. The great strength of this Jazz Samba is its homogeneity, although it is dominated, in my opinion, by the superb version of Antônio Carlos Jobim's "Desafinado". Only one composition by Charlie Byrd on this Jazz Samba: "Samba Dees Days." The other tracks are Samba or Bossa Nova standards such as "Samba Triste" by Baden Powell and Billy Blanco or "Samba de Uma Nota So" by Antônio Carlos Jobim. Jazz Samba is a nice album that succeeds in creating a rather relaxed atmosphere. The link between pure Brazilian Bossa Nova and mainstream American Jazz. Unfortunately for him and for us, Charlie Byrd will never reproduce an album of such quality.