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The Composer of Desafinado, Plays is a Bossa nova act. Their influence carried into Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 2 connections around The Composer of Desafinado, Plays and forward to Astrud Gilberto. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Composer of Desafinado, Plays is the first album by Antônio Carlos Jobim. Released in 1963, the album features a dozen instrumentals arranged by Claus Ogerman, whose work would mark the beginning of a lifelong musical relationship with Jobim. Of these twelve songs, nearly all of them are jazz standards. The opening track "The Girl from Ipanema" is believed to be the second most recorded song in history behind The Beatles' "Yesterday," and a recording of the song by Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz became a worldwide hit in 1964.
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