We're talking Stateside in the early 1960s and in much the same way that The Beatles' first album spawned a whole generation of American wannabes, the unprecedented success of Getz's foray into the realms of bossa nova (‘jazz samba’) not only motivated almost as many bandwagon jumpers, but added a whole new genre to the contemporary jazz vocabulary. This official remastered 50th anniversary reissue (containing both mono and stereo versions) confirms that half-a-century on his bossa nova recordings have never been bettered and still sound freshly minted. As with Miles' Kind Of Blue, there can hardly be any Jazzwise devotees who aren't familiar with both this sensuous material and the equally sensuous sound of Stanley's saxophone. End of commercial.