Lovely obit. I stumbled onto Gilberto’s last album “João Voz e Violão“ in college. Had never heard anything like it - voice and guitar, peaceful and insistent. Transportive music and my primary gateway to Bossa Nova.
“The Brazilians...only they know how to truly do it well. An excessively shifting swing, full of pause & thrust, wobbly measures with syncopations indefinitely reserved, suspended—all of that was theirs” --Christian Gailly
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/arts/music/joao-gilberto-dead-bossa-nova.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share … via @nytimes
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