Astrud Gilberto - I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do - LP

Vinyl LP

With her tenure on Verve drawing to a close, Astrud Gilberto stepped further from her bossa nova roots on this intimate, nocturnal set, closer in spirit to the baroque pop of Burt Bacharach — whose "Trains and Boats and Planes" is beautifully rendered here. Often dismissed as a minor entry in her catalog, it is instead a quiet masterpiece, with each song ideally suited to her distinctive voice and the album maintaining a consistency of mood largely unmatched elsewhere in her work.

Features

• Label: Verve Records

Track Listing

Side One:

1. I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do
2. Didn't We
3. Walling of the Willow
4. Where's the Love
5. The Sea Is My Soul

Side Two:

1. Trains and Boats and Planes
2. World Stop Turning
3. Without Him
4. Wee Small Hours
5. If (The Biggest Little Word)