The Astrud Gilberto Album - Astrud Gilberto
Album
Astrud Gilberto's 1965 solo debut, with Marty Paich's arrangements and Jobim on guitar, makes a case for her plain, unvibrato singing as a deliberate style. The detail is how little she decorates: on Água de Beber and Once I Loved the melody arrives almost spoken, which puts the weight on Jobim's chord changes underneath. A good first stop for English-speaking listeners.