ASTRUD GILBERTO – I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do (1969) LP | 24bits-192Hz | FLAC (tracks), lossless

 

With her tenure on Verve drawing to a close, Astrud Gilberto steps further away from her bossa nova roots with I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do, an intimate, nocturnal set closer in scope and spirit to the Baroque pop of Burt Bacharach, whose "Trains and Boats and Planes" is beautifully rendered here. In the liner notes Gilberto dubs it "my fireplace album," and indeed the record is immediately warm and comforting, despite the melancholy that colors all of the selections. Albert Gorgoni's arrangements are sumptuously romantic, perfectly complementing the simple, poignant vocals. Mistakenly considered a minor entry in the Gilberto canon, I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do is instead a minor masterpiece. Each song is ideally suited to her distinctive style and the disc as a whole maintains a consistency of mood and feeling largely unmatched in her catalog. Jason Ankeny

Tracklist  :
A1 I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do 2:55
Written-By – Pockriss, Vance
A2 Didn't We? 2:52
Written-By – Webb
A3 Wailing Of The Willow 2:11
Written-By – Nilsson
A4 Where's The Love 2:18
Written-By – Weinstein, Legrand
A5 The Sea Is My Soil (I Remember When) 3:27
Written-By – Caymmi, Motta
Written-By, Lyrics By [English] – Udell
B1 Trains And Boats And Planes 2:46
Written-By – Bacharach-David
B2 World Stop Turning 2:14
Written-By – Charlap, Udell
B3 Without Him 4:30
Written-By – Nilsson
B4 Wee Small Hours 2:15
Written-By – Hilliard, Mann
B5 If (The Biggest Little Word) 2:34
Written-By – Sherman, Udell
Credits
Arranged By, Conductor – Albert Gorgoni
Bass – George Duvivier, Richard Davis
Bass Trombone – Alan Rath
Cello – Maurice Bialkin, Seymour Barab
Drums – Gary Chester
Guitar – Albert Gorgoni, Sam Brown
Harp – Eugene Bianco
Keyboards – Frank Owens, Paul Griffin, Stan Free
Percussion – Airto Moreira, David Carey, George Devens, Joe Venuto
Saxophone – Art Kaplan
Trombone – Mickey Gravine, Tony Studd, Wayne André
Trumpet – Burt Collins, John Glasel, Irvin Markowitz
Viola – David Saxon, Seymour Berman
Violin – Ben Blumenreich, Harry Lookofsky, Irving Spice, Joe Haber, Lewis Eley, Lew Haber, Louis Stone, Matthew Raimondi, Tosha Samaroff
Vocals – Astrud Gilberto