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...Elsinore, Denmark, in a villa in the shadow of the famed Kronborg Castle, and played throughout Europe for the next three years. When he returned to the U.S. in 1961, he was playing better than ever, helped popularize the bossa nova. One album, with Brazilian Guitarist João Gilberto, was belatedly released last year. It became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. Winner of nearly every jazz popularity poll in the past two years, he recently moved into a 23-room, century-old mansion in Irvington, N.Y., with his wife and five children, this year...
...Gilberto Freyre's attitude toward the non-European world will arouse the indignation of any Asiatic, African or Latin American aware of the value of his non-European heritage. Freyre's "cultural model to combat the new racist patterns," as the CRIMSON calls it, can only be called an extension of the traditional "white man's burden...
...Gilberto Freyre asked last night that the Portuguese cultural community be considered as the model for a constructive alternative to "the pattern of supranational racist commonwealths that are threatening the world...
Eloquent Sermon. It all started a year ago, when the easy charm of bossa nova had been drowned in a din of bongo drums, maracas and raucous studio bands. Getz met with Singer-Guitarist Joāo Gilberto, Brazil's "pope of the bossa nova," and decided to cut one "true" bossa nova album. Gilberto's wife Astrud, who had never sung outside the kitchen before, was enlisted as an afterthought to sing the English lyrics to The Girl from Ipanema that Joāo sang in Portuguese. This spring, when it was felt that the odor...
...Astrud is herself a girl from Ipanema, a section of Rio de Janeiro's sparkling beach front, who came to the U.S. two years ago with Joāo. Last week, with the single edition of The Girl from Ipanema burning up the teen-age record market, Astrud Gilberto was trying to get used to her new billing-at least to the extent of trying to add to her six-song repertory...