Astrud Gilberto – I Haven’t Got Anything Better To Do (1969/2014) [ProStudioMasters FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Astrud Gilberto – I Haven’t Got Anything Better To Do (1969/2014) 
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz  | Time – 00:28:37 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: ProStudioMasters | © The Verve Music Group
Recorded: February 3, 4 1969 at Century Sound Recording Studio, New York City

As the 1960s drew to a close and the bossa nova craze had long faded, Astrud Gilberto was now squarely a jazz/easy listening artist, recording sparsely-arranged Burt Bacharach, Michel Legrand and Harry Nilsson numbers. Gilberto called this her “fireplace album” due to the intimacy of the performances and the stripped-down production.

„With her tenure on Verve drawing to a close, Astrud Gilberto steps further away from her bossa nova roots with I Haven’t Got Anything Better to Do, an intimate, nocturnal set closer in scope and spirit to the Baroque pop of Burt Bacharach, whose ‘Trains and Boats and Planes’ is beautifully rendered here. In the liner notes Gilberto dubs it ‘my fireplace album,’ and indeed the record is immediately warm and comforting, despite the melancholy that colors all of the selections. Albert Gorgoni’s arrangements are sumptuously romantic, perfectly complementing the simple, poignant vocals. Mistakenly considered a minor entry in the Gilberto canon, I Haven’t Got Anything Better to Do is instead a minor masterpiece. Each song is ideally suited to her distinctive style and the disc as a whole maintains a consistency of mood and feeling largely unmatched in her catalog.“ -Jason Ankeny, All Music

Tracklist:
1. I Haven’t Got Anything Better To Do (No Tengo Nada Mejor…) 02:59
2. Didn’t We 02:57
3. Wailing Of The Willow 02:16
4. Where’s The Love 02:22
5. The Sea Is My Soil 03:28
6. Trains And Boats And Planes 02:50
7. World Stop Turning 02:18
8. Without Him 04:35
9. Wee Small Hours 02:18
10. If (The Biggest Little World) 02:34

Personnel:
Arranged By, Conductor – Albert Gorgoni
Bass – George Duvivier, Richard Davis
Cello – Maurice Bialkin, Seymour Barab
Drums – Gary Chester
Guitar – Albert Gorgoni, Sam Brown
Harp – Eugene Bianco
Keyboards – Frank Owens, Paul Griffin, Stan Free
Percussion – Aiuto Morgira, David Carey, George Devens, Joe Venuto
Saxophone – Art Kaplan
Trombone – Mickey Gravine, Tony Studd, Wayne André
Trombone [Bass] – Alan Rath
Trumpet – Burt Collins, John Glasel, Irvin Markowitz
Viola – David Saxon, Seymour Berman
Violin – Ben Blumenreich, Harry Lookofsky, Irving Spice, Joe Haber, Lewis Eley, Lew Haber, Louis Stone, Matthew Raimondi, Tosha Samaroff
Vocals – Astrud Gilberto

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