Astrud Gilberto's Finest Hour

by Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto's Finest Hour cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 15 May 2001
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: Brazil
  • Length: 59:47
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Part of Verve's Finest Hour series, 'Astrud Gilberto's Finest Hour' gathers the singer's recordings for the label. The set centers on the bossa nova performances, beginning with 'The Girl from Ipanema', that carried Brazilian song into American pop.

Genres

Descriptors: compilation, breezy, melodic, gentle, classic, vocal

Tracklist

  1. Goodbye Sadness (Tristeza) (3:32)
  2. The Girl From Ipanema (5:22)
  3. Meditation (2:39)
  4. The Face I Love (2:06)
  5. Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) (4:14)
  6. So Nice (Summer Samba) (2:39)
  7. A Felicidade (2:46)
  8. Photograph (2:12)
  9. It Might As Well Be Spring (Live At Carnegie Hall, NY / 1964) (4:23)
  10. Wish Me A Rainbow (2:24)
  11. Fly Me To The Moon (2:19)
  12. Crickets Sing For Anamaria (1:33)
  13. Who Needs Forever? (From "The Deadly Affair" Soundtrack) (3:08)
  14. How Insensitive (2:45)
  15. Berimbau (2:26)
  16. Medley: Come Softly To Me/Hushbye (2:50)
  17. Trains And Boats And Planes (2:47)
  18. Canto De Ossanha (Let Go) (3:05)
  19. I'm Nothin' Without You (4:22)
  20. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (2:15)

Credits

  • Sherniece Smith - product manager [art production managed by]
  • Ben Young - research [additional], task misc
  • Jo茫o Gilberto - guitar, vocals, guitar
  • Walter Wanderley - organ, piano
  • Bobby Rosengarden - percussion, drums
  • Haroldo Lobo - written-by [uncredited]
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim - piano, written-by, guitar
  • Marty Paich - arranged by, conductor
  • Dawn Agard - design [package], design
  • Robert Appleton - design [series], design
  • Peter Keepnews - liner notes [notes edited by], booklet editor
  • Brooks Arthur - producer [original], arranged by [vocals]
  • Bryan Koniarz - producer [production supervised by], task producer
  • Paulo S茅rgio Valle - written-by, composed by
  • Claus Ogerman - arranged by, composed by
  • Hollis King - art direction
  • Ken Druker - executive-producer
  • Up Light - mastered by
  • Joe Alper - photography by [back cover]
  • Cynthia Sesso - photography by [photography research by]
  • Creed Taylor - producer [original]
  • Pete Spargo - producer [original]
  • The Tokens - producer [original]
  • Niltinho - written-by
  • Norman Gimbel - written-by
  • Vinicius De Moraes - written-by
  • Newton Mendon莽a - written-by
  • Carlos Pongarilho - written-by
  • Ray Gilbert - written-by
  • Gene Lees - written-by
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein - written-by
  • Livingston & Evans - written-by
  • Bart Howard - written-by
  • Howard Greenfield - written-by
  • Quincy Jones - written-by
  • Baden Powell - written-by
  • Barbara Ellis - written-by [come softly to me]
  • Gary Troxel - written-by [come softly to me]
  • Gretchen Christopher - written-by [come softly to me]
  • Doc Pomus - written-by [hushabye]
  • Mort Shuman - written-by [hushabye]
  • Bacharach And David - written-by
  • Bob Hilliard - written-by
  • David Mann - written-by
  • Ken Drucker - executive producer

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