What's your favorite version of "The Girl from Ipanema"?

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I like the rendition of the song done by great artists (not available here) but I'd still settle for the original Getz/Gilberto, timeless, so to speak.

Here, just a few more versions:

The Girl From Ipanema - Lou Rawls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqE7RuIbfjE

Sammy Davis/Count Basie - The Girl From Ipanema

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6VXEktTBI

Al Jarreau & Oleta Adams - Girl From Ipanema

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_E-XSdOE68

Tom Jobim and Joao Gilberto Reunited

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmV0TcTNJ3o

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I have heard just a few versions of Ipanema. I can't remember who they were by. The original is great.

I'm not familiar with the Compact Jazz series. I am very familiar with Jobim and Evans. I can suggest some stuff that's in the same ballpark.

For stuff like Evans try these albums...

Ben Webster-Ben Webster For Lovers (a Verve records compilation), Soulville, and At the Renaissance. Another great one with Ben Webster and some other legends is the Billie Holiday Silver Collection.

Stan Getz- Stan Getz for Lovers.

Red Garland trio- Groovy.

Horace Silver- Blowin' Away the Blues and Song For My Father.

Roy Eldridge (with the Oscar Peterson trio)- Dales Wail. I think its only available on vinyl, but super great playing, im my opinion. On Verve records. There is another Dale's Wail album on a different label.

For Jobim...

Get Jobim's own Wave album.

Stan Getz and Jao Gilberto-Getz/Gilberto. The whole album is quality.

Django Reinhardt, anything.

Charlie Byard- The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byard.

I know I'm forgetting a bunch, but there's a few. Also, you should know that I'm suggesting these to you because I listen to them. This is not a cut and paste answer. User tested.

Stan Getz and Asturdo Gilberto The Girl from Ipanema. CD - Desafinado

Too bad...the Youtube video link you've provided is not available in my country (Canada) due to legal rights/copyright restrictions...so I'm not sure what you posted.

But I'd recommend Dave Brubeck's version, or the Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto one...both very good. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass did a nice cover of it as well.

Though I suppose this would be my favorite...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9U6URQSF6U

This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions

United States!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjLz6o7uZM

Ella Fitzgerald - The Boy From Ipanema

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8TGGwnxnAc

Herb Alpert - ♫ The Girl From Ipanema ♫ (Martini-Lounge Instrumental)

Louise or Isabelle or Arabella. Also, Imogen, but I don't know whether you would count that as girly girl or not? Anabelle and Alice are a bit too girly girl for my taste but if I really had to use them I would.

I'll take Archie Shepp's rendition, thank you much. see the last.fm link below for full-length audio.

regarding the "Compact Jazz" series, I know that most of those titles are no longer being manufactured/in-print. that said, of the ones that are still available, the Nina Simone and Dinah Washington ones both appear to be worthwhile samplers...

Laurindo Almeida or Eliane Elias

That was good. It reminded me of Seu Jorge

"Tive Razao"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwT2iiKeg1g

"Rebel, Rebel"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abe0a4s9zWY

Favorite version..Sammy Davis Jr. and Count Basie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i6VXEktTBI

And of course Astrud Gilberto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9U6URQSF6U Her voice is like summertime in this song.

To me Jobim's and Astrud Gilberto's are tops.