- With solid Double Plus (A++) live jazz sound throughout, this copy is guaranteed to blow the doors off any other Getz – Gilberto #2 you’ve heard
- This vintage stereo pressing is one of only a handful to make it to the site in over three years – boy, are these hard to find in this kind of clean condition with good quality sonics
- The music is so good that most of the early Van Gelder-mastered pressings were played to death
- Fortunately a few survived the record players of their day – here is one of that will put any other pressing of the album you’ve heard to shame
- Rich, tubey and musical, the sound is wonderful for these live performances of the two very different groups – one side features Getz, the other side Gilberto
- 4 stars: “Getz/Gilberto #2 holds its own with an appealing selection of fine jazz and Bossa Nova cuts.”
The Odds Are Stacked
This is an All-Time Jazz Classic and it’s a cryin’ shame that we can’t find more copies. Most are in mono, upwards of 80% of them, and we simply do not care for the sound of this music in mono. If you want to experience a live recording properly, you need space, ambiance, and imaging, three things mono does not do well.
And nine out of ten copies we see are simply not in the condition most audiophiles would find acceptable. Multiply 20% (the stereo copies) by 10% (the decent copies) and you’re left with a pool of 2% — one out of fifty — to pick from in order to acquire enough copies with which to do a shootout. Ouch.
Those are so pretty long odds, and they go a long way toward explaining why this is the first Hot Stamper pressing of this title to hit the site in years.
If you love this Brazilian-flavored cool jazz as much as we do, you might want to snap this one up. Who knows when we’ll find another one?
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