Bossa Nova means “new wave” or “new trend,” and Large Band Bossa Nova rode that wave, making the US album chart within the wake of the success of Jazz Samba (1962) and previous to the discharge of Getz/Gilberto (1964). Sandwiched between these two basic albums of the period, it typically will get unfairly neglected.
Recording for this album started on August 27, 1962, at Columbia thirtieth Avenue Studios in New York Metropolis, when the entire of facet one of many unique LP was laid down. The 4 tracks on facet two have been achieved the next day. Moreover the fantastic tenor sax of Stan Getz, the piano enjoying of Hank Jones is especially good, whereas Jim Corridor performs acoustic guitar within the Charlie Byrd position. Different musicians embrace Clark Terry on flugelhorn and Bob Brookmeyer on Aspect 2.
The premise of the album was easy: Getz requested the 28-year-old prodigy Gary McFarland to rearrange a bossa nova album for giant band as a follow-up to Jazz Samba. McFarland ended up writing 4 of the tracks. The opposite tracks come from Brazil’s Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, and Luiz Bonfá. (Six months later, in February 1963, Getz recorded Jazz Samba Encore with each Jobim and Bonfá.)
Launched in November 1962, Large Band Bossa Nova wasted no time in charting on the Billboard album bestseller listing, three days earlier than Christmas. It went on to peak at No.13 and spent a complete of 23 weeks on the chart.
In its evaluate of the album, Billboard concentrated extra on the quilt artwork by Olga Albizu than they did on the enjoying. In January 1963 the identical journal mentioned, “Jazz dealers have an extra lift in their gait these days, thanks to some solid sales supplied by the music from the South, way south – the new beat from Brazil, Bossa Nova.”
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