Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd Jazz Samba CD

“Jazz Samba” was the first bossa nova album on the US jazz scene and is one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. The words bossa nova are often synonymous with the name Stan Getz. But in the US, the sound of bossa nova might never have been heard if it hadn't been for Charlie Byrd. In 1961, Byrd returned from a tour of South America, where bossa nova was booming. The style – an adaptation of infectious Brazilian samba rhythms with the harmonic structures and “cool” surface of West Coast jazz – was made famous by singer Joao Gilberto and songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim.