Stan Getz

Stan Getz's connection to bossa nova started secondhand, through a guitarist's souvenir. Charlie Byrd picked up bossa nova recordings while on a State Department-sponsored tour of South America in the early 1960s, brought them home, and pulled Getz into a collaboration that became the 1962 album Jazz Samba — a record that reworked the Rio sound for American jazz audiences and sold over a million copies.

The full story is in Bossa Nova.

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1943–1991

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• 039
  Bossa Nova

  Supporting cast · 1956-1964 · Members

  Bossa Nova is a genre from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1956–1964. Its principal artists include João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes. This issue covers 9 essential albums and 15 dated events.