Astrud Gilberto – Shadow Of Your Smile (LP Vinyl) Insight Editions with a then-20-year-old Sonny Rollins

with a then-20-year-old Sonny Rollins and 17-year-old Jackie McLean pushing Miles toward a harder

and sublimely raw in feeling

Photographer: Rob Cohn (credited source)

the band was already familiar with most of the music

Recorded in 1953 in Chicago

Astrud Gilberto – Shadow Of Your Smile (LP Vinyl) Insight Editions with a then-20-year-old Sonny RollinsAstrud Gilberto had become an overnight sensation just two years earlier, when her unassuming turn on "The Girl from Ipanema" introduced bossa nova to millions of American listeners. That she followed such an entrance with this kind of quiet confidence says everything about her artistry. Pressed here in the Acoustic Sounds series, the album rewards the kind of careful listening that vinyl demands. Released on Verve in 1965, The Shadow of Your Smile