Beach Samba
by Astrud Gilberto
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 September 1967
- Label: Verve
- Country: Brazil
- Length: 27:38
- Community rating: 3.4/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Beach Samba' captures the quintessential sound of mid-60s bossa nova, showcasing Astrud Gilberto's signature gentle and understated vocal delivery. The album features a mix of classic Brazilian sambas and American pop standards, all given a laid-back, lounge treatment with lush orchestral arrangements. It's an album that evokes a feeling of breezy, sun-drenched sophistication, cementing Gilberto's status as a global icon of the genre.
Genres
Descriptors: vocal, ballad, melodic, Portuguese language, orchestral
Tracklist
- Stay (2:41)
- Misty Roses (2:35)
- The Face I Love (2:06)
- Parade (A Banda) (2:07)
- Oba, Oba (1:59)
- Canoeiro (1:32)
- I Had The Craziest Dream (2:25)
- Beach Samba (2:48)
- My Foolish Heart (2:43)
- I Think Of You (2:21)
- You Didn't Have To Be So Nice (2:40)
- Nao Bate O Corocao (1:35)
Credits
- Don Sebesky - arranged by
- Eumir Deodato - arranged by, Written-By
- Julio Ruggiero - bass
- Ron Carter - bass
- Alan Shulman - cello
- Charles McCracken - cello
- George Ricci - cello
- Harvey Shapiro - cello
- Maurice Bialkin - cello
- Maurice Brown - cello
- Seymour Barab - cello
- David Krieger - cover [design]
- Jack Anesh - cover [design]
- Bobby Rosengarden - drums
- Claudio Slon - drums
- Grady Tate - drums
- Val Valentin - engineer [director of engineering]
- Brooks Arthur - engineer [original recording engineer]
- Rudy Van Gelder - engineer [re-recording]
- Hubert Laws - flute, woodwind
- Seldon Powell - flute
- Earl Chapin - french horn
- Jim Buffington - french horn
- Ray Alonge - french horn
- Tony Miranda - french horn
- Barry Galbraith - guitar
- Marcos Valle - guitar, Written-By
- Toots Thielemans - guitar, harmonica, whistling
- Margaret Ross - harp
- Ben Aronov - harpsichord, piano
- Stan Levine - liner notes
- Alan Douglas - percussion
- Dom Um Romao - percussion
- Jack Jennings - percussion
- Jerry Schatzberg - photography by
- Warren Bernhardt - piano
- Creed Taylor - producer
- Tony Studd - trombone
- Urbie Green - trombone
- Warren Covington - trombone
- Wayne Andre - trombone
- Bernie Glow - trumpet
- Ernie Royal - trumpet
- Jimmy Nottingham - trumpet
- Marvin Stamm - trumpet
- John Barber - tuba
- George Devens - vibraphone
- David Mankovitz - viola
- David Schwartz - viola
- Harold Coletta - viola
- Richard Dickler - viola
- Arnold Eidus - violin
- Gene Orloff - violin
- George Ockner - violin
- Harry Katzman - violin
- Leo Kruczek - violin
- Astrud Gilberto - vocals, Primary Artist
- Bill Hammond - woodwind
- Phil Bodner - woodwind
- Stan Webb - woodwind