Astrud Gilberto - Look To The Rainbow (1966/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

In 1965, Astrud Gilberto was telling her producer, Creed Taylor, how much she admired arranger Gil Evans and his groundbreaking "cool jazz" work with Miles Davis. Taylor managed to hire Evans for her next album, "Look To The Rainbow". Evans challenged her but Gilberto's aloof vocals matched Evans's cool arrangements, which at times used Gilberto's voice as another instrument in the mix.

Astrud Gilberto sings a mist of sound. Her voice is small and soft and very intimate. Although it has been described as "the sound of yearning innocence," it is also the sound of hushed intimacy. Astrud married Joao Gilberto in 1959 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1963. She burst into the limelight of American popular music when her vocal on the Stan Getz recording of The Girl From Ipanema captivated enough American ears to help make the record a best-seller, and Astrud a star. It was her first professional appearance as a vocalist. She has absolute command of bossa nova songs, and creates fresh and incisive renditions of American popular songs. This album is Astrud's third.

This was a beautiful bossa nova record of Astrud Gilberto's vocal stylings…All the material (32:13) here, with the exception of "Learn to Live Alone" and "Pretty Place", which were arranged by Al Cohn, were arranged by Gil Evans. With the exception of a Johnny Coles trumpet solo, the personnel was uncredited on this 1966 recording. Discographies have credited Bob Brookmeyer (valve trombone), Kenny Burrell (guitar), and Grady Tate (drums), but except for a few bars of sax, there was no solo indivdualism in this large Creed Taylor-produced orchestra.

Tracklist:

01 - Berimbau
02 - Once Upon A Summertime
03 - A Felicidade
04 - I Will Wait For You
05 - Frevo
06 - Maria Quiet
07 - Look To The Rainbow
08 - Bim Bom
09 - Lugar Bonita (Pretty Place)
10 - El Preciso Aprender A Ser So (Learn To Live Alone)
11 - She's A Carioca

Produced by Creed Taylor. Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder. Arranged by Gil Evans except "9-10" by Al Cohn.
Recorded on November 22, December 6, 10 and 23, 1965 & February 4, 1966 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.


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