Minas Quintet at World Cafe Live

Minas’ brand new version of “The Girl From Ipanema”, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the song in the US, will be released and celebrated with a concert by the Brazilian jazz quintet for this special show. “Ipanema” is the first single
from Minas’ upcoming CD “Symphony in Bossa”, recorded with an entire big band, strings, and many guest artists.
At the concert, Minas will pay tribute not only to “The Girl From Ipanema”, but to the album from which it stems - the quintessential Getz/Gilberto. The album and single won several Grammy Awards including Record of the Year in 1965...

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Minas’ brand new version of “The Girl From Ipanema”, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the song in the US, will be released and celebrated with a concert by the Brazilian jazz quintet for this special show. “Ipanema” is the first single
from Minas’ upcoming CD “Symphony in Bossa”, recorded with an entire big band, strings, and many guest artists.
At the concert, Minas will pay tribute not only to “The Girl From Ipanema”, but to the album from which it stems - the quintessential Getz/Gilberto. The album and single won several Grammy Awards including Record of the Year in 1965. Written by A. C. Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, Garota de Ipanema, the original title in Portuguese, was first released in Brazil in 1962. It gained immense popularity in 1964 in the US as a single with English lyrics by Norman Gimbel, featuring Stan Getz, João Gilberto, and A. C. Jobim, in the refreshing voice of Astrud Gilberto. The single went to number one on domestic and international charts and “Ipanema” is one of the most popular and recorded songs in history, translated to dozens of languages worldwide. At the end of the concert the audience will be invited to sing along with the band in both English and Portuguese. Anyone knowing other versions of the song in another language will be encouraged to share.

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