<p>2LP-set from <strong>Vinyl Passion </strong>collecting <strong>Stan Getz's </strong>two 1962 bossa nova classics,<em> </em><strong><em>Jazz Samba</em> with Charlie Byrd</strong> and <strong><em>Big Band Bossa Nova</em></strong>. <strong><em>Jazz Samba</em></strong> is the first true bossa nova album by jazz artists, the one that began the wave. The name <strong>Stan Getz </strong>can easily be tied to bossa nova whenever the music is being discussed in jazz circles but would audiences have ever known of bossa nova if not for <strong>Charlie Byrd</strong>? The sessions for<strong><em> Jazz Samba</em></strong> were arranged only after Byrd played records he'd gotten in Brazil for Getz. The results: a groundbreaking No. 1 album and a document of jazz history. It's follow-up <strong><em>Big Band Bossa Nova</em></strong> rode that wave, topping out at No. 13 on the Billboard album chart in 1963 in the wake of the success of<strong><em> Jazz Samba</em></strong> (1962) and prior to the release of <em>Getz/Gilberto</em> (1964). Sandwiched as it is between the two landmark albums of the era, it sometimes gets unfairly overlooked.</p>
