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...Anyway, I begin to think about the song "Corcovado" again, the October 1964 live version with Astrud Gilberto singing in English (her voice high and light as mountain mist) and Joao Gilberto answering in Portuguese (gentle and soothing as a priest's voice in a confessional) and Stan Getz's tenor sax sweetly flowing through the song like a warm river. "This is where I want to be/here with you so close to me/until the final flicker of life's ember..." It's a song, I think, that will stand as long as the mountain stands - it's that good...
...vast and its bounty so prodigious that Burns can't cover all the great ones, even glancingly, which leaves lots still to explore, along with some bad feelings. There has already been griping about who doesn't get enough screen time (Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Stan Getz) and who hardly shows up at all (many--no, most--vocalists, Stan Kenton, Nat King Cole and his trio, Erroll Garner, Johnny Hodges), which is an inadvertent tribute to the immensity of the legacy that Burns mines broadly, but beautifully. There has also been loud dissatisfaction within the ranks of some...
...Dick Getz, who manages property in the area, said that the vacant space doesn't help to bring foot traffic or business into the area...
DIED. CHARLIE BYRD, 74, classically trained jazz-guitar virtuoso; of cancer; in Annapolis, Md. His 1962 album Jazz Samba, with saxophonist Stan Getz, popularized bossa nova in North America. Byrd recorded more than 100 albums, and was honored this year by Brazil as a Knight of the Rio Branco...
Local paintings, a 1950s-style jukebox playing Stan Getz and Duke Ellington and an out-of-place Star Trek pinball machine create a laidback atmosphere...