Stan Getz-Charlie Byrd/Jazz Samba (1962)

A bossa nova album by saxophone player Stan Getz and guitarist Charlie Byrd. Released in the year before famous Stan Getz and João Gilberto's "Getz/Gilberto". The first full-fledged bossa nova album ever recorded by American jazz musicians. It had a commercial success (#1 on the US pop album charts) and became the beginning of the bossa nova craze in the US in the mid-1960s. Easy listening oriented jazz sound filled with melancholy lyricism. Includes two tracks composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, a hit single "Desafinado" and "Samba de uma Nota So".