I am loving me my new XM Radio. All last week I was serenaded by tons of Samuel Barber stuff, a lot of which I had never heard, including archival recordings of him singing. Then tonight I had the Bway station on and they were playing PLAIN AND FANCY all the way through, and I was reminded what a sweet score that is.
BK, you may know already, but Jobim's recordings with Elizete are considered by Brasilian cognoscenti to be the "real" beginnings of the Bossa Nova, years before Orfeu Negro.