Gilberto’s music is at once warm and breezy, unhurried, jazzy and slinky, but every note is suffused with melancholy and yearning. The bossa nova sound is as fresh and wondrous in Bebel Gilberto’s hands as it was when João Gilberto and Stan Getz blazed new trails with their collaborative works, and her voice is a thing of wide-eyed, dexterous wonder.
She’s collaborated with the likes of Mike Patton (Faith No More), the Dust Brothers and Mark Ronson in service to her restless muse. But this particular night will be all hers. Summer forever.
Bebel Gilberto plays to a sold-out house at the Dr. Phillips Center on Wednesday, Sept. 14.
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This article appears in Sep 7-13, 2016.