Several months ago, I came across a superb album of early bossa nova music. It's called João Gilberto: Private Session at Chico Pereira’s House in 1958. The music was captured a year before Gilberto recorded and released Chega de Saudade in 1959, the Brazilian album that launched the gentle, rhythmic and melodic bossa nova. The album's back-story is as …
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