João Gilberto, composer, singer, guitarist, architect of bossa nova, has died at the age of eighty-eight. The Washington Post has an obituary. From 2008, here is a São Paolo concert, just voice and guitar.
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The New York Times now has an obituary.
Sunday, July 7, 2019
João Gilberto (1931–2019)
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I just heard him on the radio Saturday. The disc jockey made a point that it was w/o Astrud Gilberto.
Yes, the famous recording was apparently an impromptu thing in the studio. I was listening to the Getz/Gilberto album today. And a true fact: I used to mesmerize my classes by playing “The Girl from Ipanema” (the full-length version, with both João and Astrud singing) to accompany Odyssey 5, when Odysseus meets Nausicaa on the beach.
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