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Louise Alexandra's avatar

Wonderful Marc! Thank you for this precious collection of videos of the wonderful Astrud!

I was there in '87 in The Hague. Living a few blocks away from the "Congresgebouw", I grew up with the NSJF and all the great music (back when it was a jazz festival...) Best memories! And the 6 gems with the Dutch trio....thanks!

Christian Muermann's avatar

Great videos of a great artist. Funny, one day before her appearance in The Hague, Netherlands on July 11th, 1987 I saw her here in Berlin, Germany at the "Quartier Latin". This concert hall existed from 1970 until December 31st,1989.

Strangely enough, I can still remember this concert quite well, even though it was almost 40 years ago.

Peter Coppock's avatar

Astrud’s recording of “Look to the Rainbow” made me cry the first time I heard it.

Mark Rabin's avatar

Marc, we know from the liner notes to Getz/Gilberto that Gene Lees wrote the English-language lyrics to Corcovado a.k.a. "Quite Nights of Quiet Stars" as used in the Getz/Gilberto album. Did Norman Gimbel write another set of English-language lyrics?

Marc Myers's avatar

Hi Mark. Yes, of course. Yikes, Gene would have killed me. I've fixed at the site. Thanks!!