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The Astrud Gilberto Album

Once I Loved

Astrud Gilberto with Stanley Turrentine

Ponteio (feat. Stanley Turrentine)

Para Sempre - Sambas

16 Toneladas

The Very Best Of The Ventures

Medley: Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) (Instrumental)

Ultra-Lounge: Bossa Novaville

So Nice (Samba De Verao) (Remastered)

Bossa Antigua

Samba Cantina

Tamba Trio

3 Horas da Manhã

Luiz Bonfá Plays And Sings Bossa Nova

Bossa Nova Cha Cha (feat. Lalo Schifrin & Oscar Castro-Neves)

Big Band Bossa Nova

Soul Bossa Nova

Se E Tarde Me Pardoa (Forgive Me If I'm Late)

'S Bossa Nova 1

A Rã

Bossa Nova In Concert

Os Grilos (Crickets Sing For Ana Maria) (LIve)

Elis Regina Sem Limite

Só Tinha De Ser Com Você

The Brasil Project Vol. II

Samba de Orfeu

Vavanguèr

La rosée si feuilles songes

Latino Jazz

Brazil (Alternate Take)

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66-86: Classics Volume 18

Mas Que Nada

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In the summer of 1958, a singer-guitarist from Bahia in the north of Brazil called João Gilberto created a musical revolution when he joined with Bossa Novas seminal songwriting team, the gifted composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, and the poet and former diplomat, Vinicius de Moraes, to record the songs that would launch this cool, futuristic new music for a confident new era.

Bossa nova, "The New Way", was influenced by modern classical music (Villa-Lobos, Debussy), jazz and samba-canção. Gilberto brought an unprecedented guitar style and a hushed, understated form of vocal expression that defined the movement and changed the course of music history.

Amor, o sorriso è a flor (Love, a Smile, and a Flower) is the second in the trilogy of formative bossa nova albums released by João Gilberto between 1959 and 1961 (Chega de Saudade being the first).

These albums are quite literally the aesthetic and musical blueprints for a genre that would exert an irresistible worldwide influence on popular music.

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