RC 261011SAfmKitty Beedla
Sunday, 11 October 2026
Sunday's Vinyl Corner paired a Market Theatre Prima Facie curtain call with a long run of bossa nova and jazz standards, from Stan Getz and João Gilberto to Dakota Staton.
- 22:25
Prima Facie had its South African premiere at the Market Theatre, directed by Neil Coppin, who said its gender-based violence themes matter deeply in a country with some of the highest such statistics in the world.
- 23:06
Desafinado, the Stan Getz and João Gilberto bossa nova collaboration, was recorded in March 1963 at A&R Studios in New York, with Antonio Carlos Jobim on piano.
- 23:29
Dakota Staton's Softly album for Capitol Records in 1960 was a full orchestral production, with Benny Carter handling the arrangements and conducting.
- 23:54
Her second Bluebird record, following Kissed by Nature, is a crossover vocal date that leans on her Brazilian pop heritage, with Jobim and Gilberto songs.