The world is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the most iconic Bossa Nova album ever released: "Getz/Gilberto", recorded in 1963, released worldwide in 1964 by Verve Records and awarded with 4 Grammys (plus other six nominations) in 1965. That album turned Bossa Nova into a pop phenomenon, and popularized the careers of João Gilberto, Stan Getz and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Astrud Gilberto became a pop icon, personified as "The Girl from Ipanema". For the first time in the Grammy history, a jazz album was awarded "Album of the Year"! For the first time in history, a jazz single was awarded "Record of the Year", with the crossover smash "The Girl From Ipanema" becoming one of the biggest hit recordings jazz has ever known.

"Getz/Gilberto", still the best and most successful bossa nova recording of all time, remained 96 on Billboard's Pop chart, reaching No.2 (the Beatles monopolized the top spot throughout 1964). Released as a single, "The Girl from Ipanema" peaked at No.5, helping the album to receive a total of 10 Grammy nominations and 4 awards! Nothing less than "Album of The Year" (for João Gilberto and Stan Getz), "Record of the Year" (for Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto), "Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by Soloist with Small Group" (Stan Getz), and "Best Engineering" (Phil Ramone). The other nominations: "Best Male Singer" - João Gilberto (Louis Armstrong got it with "Hello, Dolly"), "Best Female Singer" - Astrud Gilberto (Barbara Streisand got it with "People"), "Best New Artist" - Antonio Carlos Jobim; "Best New Artist - Astrud Gilberto" (they lost for the Beatles), "Best Album Cover" - Olga Albizu; "Best Album Notes" - João Gilberto and Stan Getz.

NARAS-Grammy voting member Arnaldo DeSouteiro, a renowned Brazilian record producer, worked with all the Brazilian artists that recorded on "Getz/Gilberto": João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, drummer Milton Banana and bassist Sebastião Neto, as well as with the album producer, Creed Taylor. For 20 years, Mr. DeSouteiro was responsible for all the CTI reissues in Japan, and also worked as Taylor's creative consultant in the USA, supervising the CTI releases on CD format in the USA by Sony Music. He has also worked extensively for Verve, Milestone, RCA and other labels, producing new projects, reissues and compilations such as the best-selling series "A Trip To Brazil", "Brazilian Horizons", "CTI Acid Jazz Grooves" and "Jazzclub".

DeSouteiro was João Gilberto's musical consultant for over two decades, producing records and writing screenplays for concerts and TV broadcasts such as "João & Antonio," which documented the two final concerts that João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim did together in 1992. He also produced Jobim's last recording session, for Ithamara Koorax's album "Rio Vermelho" (Red River) in 1994. Besides Gilberto and Jobim, DeSouteiro produced albums by Luiz Bonfá, Claudio Roditi, João Donato, Palmyra & Levita, Mario Castro-Neves, Eumir Deodato, Dom Um Romão, and many others, plus sessions with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Airto Moreira, Steve Swallow etc.

As a journalist he was Brazilian correspondent for several magazines as "Keyboard" and "Billboard," wrote a weekly jazz column in Brazilian newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa for 30 years, hosted his own jazz radio show at TUPI FM in Rio de Janeiro, and anchored the TV show "Terça Especial" at Manchete network, interviewing Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Chuck Mangione, Flora Purim, and so on.

Tune in to this special Sunday Profile on June 16th from 2-7 pm, hosted by Jassvan DeLima, only on WKCR 89.9 FM and wkcr.org.