Basra TSOV-179 Getz/Gilberto trumped jazz samba by

Getz/Gilberto trumped jazz samba by bringing two of bossa nova's greatest innovators - guitarist/singer Joao Gilberto and composer/pianist Antonio Carlos Jobim - to New York to record with Stan Getz

The Bar-Keys and John Lee Hooker

One of the biggest-selling jazz albums of all time

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a celebrated Brazilian composer (and also one of the main creators of the genre)

Basra TSOV-179 Getz/Gilberto trumped jazz samba byVinyl LP pressing. By the time drummer Pete La Roca recorded his debut album Basra in 1965 he had already appeared on nine Blue Note sessions as a sideman and spent time in bands led by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. But it was another tenor titan, Joe Henderson, that La Roca brought in as the sole horn voice to front a dynamic quartet that was completed by what liner note writer Ira Gitler called "one of the most attuned rhythm sections in jazz"