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The Girl from San Tropez

Friday, 5th September 2008

After that reworked Stanley Kubrick clip, here's another clever marriage of words and images. The film is Roger Vadim's notorious "Et . . . Dieu créa la femme". The music comes from perhaps the greatest bossa nova record of them all, "Getz-Gilberto". If you don't already possess a copy, shame on you. I just realized it's 45 years since Stan Getz went into the studio with João Gilberto and Tom Jobim (not forgetting Gilberto's wife, Astrud, of course). Ruy Castro's terrific book, "Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World", notes that it took just two days to make the disc. Unbelievable. Not that the project started out so promisingly:

"Tom, tell that gringo he's a moron," João Gilberto instructed Tom Jobim in Portuguese.

"Stan, João said to tell you that he's always dreamed of making a record with you," Jobim told him in English...


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