Getz/Gilberto

Getz/Gilberto is credited to the saxophonist Stan Getz and the singer and guitarist João Gilberto, with Antônio Carlos Jobim on piano. Sessions began on 18 March 1963 at A&R Recording Studios in New York and finished the next day, with Creed Taylor producing and Phil Ramone engineering. Jobim, Sebastião Neto on bass and Milton Banana on drums formed the rhythm section. Astrud Gilberto, who had never sung professionally before, was featured on two tracks, The Girl from Ipanema and Corcovado.

Taylor shelved the record for nearly a year, and it appeared in March 1964. Pitchfork's Andy Beta noted that Astrud's name was missing from the cover, the sleeve and even the center label, and that she was paid the flat $120 fee of a session musician. The Independent reports that the album stayed on the Billboard album charts for 96 weeks and peaked at number five. At the 1965 Grammys it won Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental Album and Best Engineered Recording, and it was the first non-American album to win Album of the Year. The historian Bryan McCann wrote in his book on the record that Astrud made it a smash hit.