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On this day, April 20, 1962, "Jazz Samba" was released.
I don't have free access to this article, so I entered the transcript of its opening by hand. There might be some typos in there.
Jazz Samba,' landmark album recorded in a D.C. church, turns 50
Snare. Cymbals. Kick. Piece by piece, Buddy Deppenschmidt extracted his drum kit from his Volkswagen Beetle and schlepped it into All Souls Church on the corner of 16th and Harvard streets NW. He remember the morning of Feg. 13, 1962, as cold and clear.
"But I was so up, it could have been a cloudy day and I would have thought it was sunny," says Deppenschmidt, 76, over the phone from his home in Ottsville, Pa. "I was just so happy we were finally doing this thing."
This thing. "Jazz Samba" The landmark album he was about to record with his boss, guitarist Charlie Byrd, and his hero, saxophonist Stan Getz. To everyone's surprise, the album would be a spectacular hit, introducing American ears to the sweet nothing of Brazilian bossa nova and launching a pop craze that would survive to become one of the most enduring dialects in jazz.
Released on April 20, 1962, "Jazz Samba" lingered on the charts for 70 weeks, selling half million copies in 18 months. It remains the only jazz album to ever top the Billboard pop chart.
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Snare. Cymbals. Kick. Piece by piece, Buddy Deppenschmidt extracted his drum kit from his Volkswagen Beetle and schlepped it into All Souls Church on the corner of 16th and Harvard streets NW. He remember the morning of Feg. 13, 1962, as cold and clear.
"But I was so up, it could have been a cloudy day and I would have thought it was sunny," says Deppenschmidt, 76, over the phone from his home in Ottsville, Pa. "I was just so happy we were finally doing this thing."
This thing. "Jazz Samba" The landmark album he was about to record with his boss, guitarist Charlie Byrd, and his hero, saxophonist Stan Getz. To everyone's surprise, the album would be a spectacular hit, introducing American ears to the sweet nothing of Brazilian bossa nova and launching a pop craze that would survive to become one of the most enduring dialects in jazz.
Released on April 20, 1962, "Jazz Samba" lingered on the charts for 70 weeks, selling half million copies in 18 months. It remains the only jazz album to ever top the Billboard pop chart.
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Jazz Samba
Studio album by Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
Released: 1962
Recorded: February 13, 1962
Studio: Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C.
Jazz Samba is a bossa nova album by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd released by Verve Records in 1962. Jazz Samba signaled the beginning of the bossa nova craze in America. Stan Getz was the featured soloist and the tracks were arranged by Charlie Byrd, who had first heard bossa nova during a tour of Brazil in 1961.
Getz and Byrd were accompanied by two bassists: Keter Betts and Joe Byrd, Charlie Byrd's brother who also played guitar. They were joined by two drummers: Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach. The album was recorded at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C. on February 13, 1962 and released in April of that year.
Two songs, "Desafinado" (Off Key or Out of Tune) and "Samba de Uma Nota Só" (One Note Samba) were composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and were released as singles in the U.S. and Europe. Charlie Byrd wrote one song, "Samba Dees Days", while the rest were by Brazilian composers.
Stan Getz won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for "Desafinado", and went on to make many other bossa nova recordings, notably with João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto and the popular song "The Girl from Ipanema".
Robert Dimery included Jazz Samba in his book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The painting on the cover is by Olga Albizu.
Studio album by Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
Released: 1962
Recorded: February 13, 1962
Studio: Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C.
Jazz Samba is a bossa nova album by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd released by Verve Records in 1962. Jazz Samba signaled the beginning of the bossa nova craze in America. Stan Getz was the featured soloist and the tracks were arranged by Charlie Byrd, who had first heard bossa nova during a tour of Brazil in 1961.
Getz and Byrd were accompanied by two bassists: Keter Betts and Joe Byrd, Charlie Byrd's brother who also played guitar. They were joined by two drummers: Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach. The album was recorded at All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C. on February 13, 1962 and released in April of that year.
Two songs, "Desafinado" (Off Key or Out of Tune) and "Samba de Uma Nota Só" (One Note Samba) were composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and were released as singles in the U.S. and Europe. Charlie Byrd wrote one song, "Samba Dees Days", while the rest were by Brazilian composers.
Stan Getz won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for "Desafinado", and went on to make many other bossa nova recordings, notably with João Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto and the popular song "The Girl from Ipanema".
Robert Dimery included Jazz Samba in his book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The painting on the cover is by Olga Albizu.
Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - One Note Samba
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Guitarist Charlie Byrd was invited to travel and play in Brazil during a cultural goodwill tour sponsored by the Kennedy administration in 1961. He was completely enamoured by the music, and when he returned, he headed straight for the recording studio to make the now classic Jazz Samba. Collaborating with Stan Getz on tenor sax and backed by a band that included Gene Byrd (bass, guitar), Keter Betts (bass), and Buddy Deppenschmidt and Bill Reichenbach (drums), Byrd forged a new and brilliant sound. American record companies were to churn out hundreds of watered bossa-pop albums that have since given the style its lounge-addled image, but this album stands as a tribute to the vitality and adaptability of jazz. --Louis Gibson
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