IVIV on the beach, Getz/Gilberto & etc.

[Doug Millison]

Pounding out copy for the day job (Activnet.com, watch this space),  
listening to the breakthrough Getz/Gilberto album, recorded in March  
'63, the one with "Desafinado," "Girl From Ipanema," and the  
especially lovely "Corcovado," failing to remember which Portuguese  
(Brazilian, I think) writer's novel that Pynchon blurbed, and  
recalling that Stan Getz who had a lot to do with introducing bossa  
nova into the US was also, I think I read somewhere, a notorious  
heroin junkie (and isn't Coy a funny name for a junkie). Don't know if  
Getz ever played surf music, or worked in the Nixon brigade, but he's  
worth listening to on this album. Wondering, too,  whatever happened  
to Zeca Munoz, the Brazilian foreign exchange student who stayed with  
my best friend Don during our junior high school year.  Zeca's father  
was a psychiatrist and a General in the Brazilian Army. Taught me how  
to play "One Note Samba" on the guitar.  Years later I had a chance to  
hear Joao Gilberto play guitar and sing, solo, in an intimate venue, a  
high point of this earthly existence.