Vital Vinyl Series 180g Vinyl LP Reissue!

Verve and Impulse! Records launch the new Vital Vinyl series with UMe, celebrating essential jazz LPs from the enduring catalogues of the two iconic labels. Throughout 2019, Verve and Impulse! will be making no fewer than 40 key albums from the 1950s, '60s and '70s available again on 180-gram vinyl. Each will feature their original cover artwork, track listings and liner notes. Some of these albums will become available for the first time in years, while others that are already in print will now be perennially available.

Antonio Carlos Jobim, famed Brazilian composer of such popular songs as "Desafinado" and "The Girl From Ipanema," derived his unmistakable songwriting style from a very personal sense of melody and harmony, the magnificent songwriting traditions of Brazil, the rhythm of the samba, and American jazz. Originally issued on Verve Records in 1963, The Composer Of Desafinado Plays served as Antonio Carlos Jobim's first American album and is a lush and refined 12-track affair produced by Creed Taylor and arranged by Claus Ogerman. Comprised of Jobim standards including the aforementioned "The Girl From Ipanema" and "Desafinado" plus "Corcovado" and "Chega de Saudade" (No More Blues)," the album was ceremoniously inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.