''Live in Montreux'' is a

bossa nova Bossa nova () is a style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a "different beat" that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords and an innovat ...

album by

João Gilberto João Gilberto (born João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira – ; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist, singer and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s. Around the world, he was of ...

, recorded live in the 1985

Montreux Jazz Festival The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annual ...

and released in 1987. This is a single-disc edition of the double album ''Live at the 19th Montreux Jazz Festival'', released in 1986.

Track listing

# "Sem Compromisso" (Geraldo Pereira, Nelson Trigueiro) – 4:05 # "Menino do Rio" (

Caetano Veloso Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (; born 7 August 1942) is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encomp ...

) – 3:45 # " Retrato em Branco e Preto" (

Chico Buarque Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born 19 June 1944), popularly known simply as Chico Buarque, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic, ...

Antônio Carlos Jobim Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and singer. Considered one of the great exponents of Brazilian mu ...

) – 6:36 # "Pra que Discutir com Madame" ( Haroldo Barbosa, Antonio Almeida) – 6:25 # " Garota de Ipanema" (Jobim,

Vinicius de Moraes Marcus Vinícius da Cruz e Mello Moraes (19 October 1913 – 9 July 1980), better known as Vinícius de Moraes () and nicknamed O Poetinha ("The little poet"), was a Brazilian poet, diplomat, lyricist, essayist, musician, singer, and playwrigh ...

) – 3:42 # "Adeus América" (Barbosa, Geraldo Jacques) – 6:50 # "Estate" (Bruno Brighetti, Bruno Martino) – 5:18 # "Morena Boca de Ouro" (

Ary Barroso Ary de Resende Barroso (1903–1964), better known as Ary Barroso, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV. He was one of Brazil's most successful songwriters in the first half of the 20th centur ...

) – 5:37 # " A Felicidade" (Jobim, de Moraes) – 5:10 # "Preconceito" (Marino Pinto, Wilson Batista) – 2:25 # "Isto Aqui o Que E" abelled "Sandalia de Prata"(Barroso) – 6:43 # "Rosa Morena" (

Dorival Caymmi Dorival Caymmi (; April 30, 1914 – August 16, 2008) was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years, beginning in 1933. He contributed to the birth of Brazil's bossa nova movement, and several of his samba ...

) – 5:24 # "Aquarela do Brasil" (Barroso) – 7:50

Personnel

– Acoustic

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

and vocals

References

Bossa nova albums João Gilberto live albums 1987 live albums Elektra/Musician live albums Albums recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival {{Brazil-album-stub