I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do

by Astrud Gilberto

Overview

With her tenure on Verve drawing to a close, Astrud Gilberto steps further away from her bossa nova roots with I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do, an intimate, nocturnal set closer in scope and spirit to the Baroque pop of Burt Bacharach, whose "Trains and Boats and Planes" is beautifully rendered here. In the liner notes Gilberto dubs it "my fireplace album," and indeed the record is immediately warm and comforting, despite the melancholy that colors all of the selections. Albert Gorgoni's arrangements are sumptuously romantic, perfectly complementing the simple, poignant vocals. Mistakenly considered a minor entry in the Gilberto canon, I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do is instead a minor masterpiece. Each song is ideally suited to her distinctive style and the disc as a whole maintains a consistency of mood and feeling largely unmatched in her catalog. ~ Jason Ankeny

Product Details

Release Date:	07/30/2021
Label:	Universal / Verve
UPC:	4988031436097
Rank:	45140

Tracks

1. I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do
2. Wailing on the Willow
3. Trains and Boats and Planes
4. Without Him
5. Didn't We
6. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
7. Where's the Love
8. The World Stop Turning
9. The Sea Is My Soil
10. If

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Astrud Gilberto   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Michel Legrand   Composer
Danilo Caymmi   Composer
Hal David   Composer
Ian Freebairn-Smith   Composer
Weinstein   Composer
Morris Charlap   Composer
David A. Mann   Composer
Mark "Moose" Charlap   Composer
Filho Nelson Candido Motta   Composer
David Mann   Composer
Paul Vance   Composer
Bob Hilliard   Composer
Jimmy Webb   Composer
Lee Pockriss   Composer
Peter Udell   Composer
Harry Nilsson   Composer
Burt Bacharach   Composer