ARJ | Brazil | V. 4, n. 1 | p. 96-113 | Jan. / June 2017 BOLLOS; CORRÊA; COSTA | Desainado The historic recordings of the song Desainado: Bossa Nova development and change in the international scene 1 Liliana Harb Bollos Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brasil contato@lilianabollos.com.br Fernando A. de A. Corrêa Faculdade Santa Marcelina, Brasil fernandocorrea@uol.com.br Carlos Henrique Costa Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brasil costacarlosh@yahoo.com.br 1. Introduction Considered the “turning point” (Medaglia, 1960, p. 79) in modern popular Brazi- lian music due to the representativeness and importance it reached in the Brazi- lian music scene in the subsequent years, João Gilberto’s LP, Chega de saudade (1959, Odeon, 3073), was released in 1959 and after only a short time received critical and public acclaim. The musicologist Brasil Rocha Brito published an im- portant study on Bossa Nova in 1960 airming that “never before had a happe- ning in the scope of our popular music scene brought about such an incitement of controversy and polemic” (Brito, 1993, p. 17). Before the Chega de Saudade recording, however, in February of 1958, João Gilberto participated on the LP Can- ção do Amor Demais (Festa, FT 1801), featuring the singer Elizete Cardoso. The recording was considered a sort of presentation recording for Bossa Nova (Bollos, 2010), featuring pieces by Vinicius de Moraes and Antônio Carlos Jobim, including arrangements by Jobim. On the recording, João Gilberto interpreted two tracks on guitar: “Chega de Saudade” (Jobim/Moraes) and “Outra vez” (Jobim). The groove that would symbolize Bossa Nova was recorded for the irst time on this LP with ¹ The irst version of this article was published in the Anais do V Simpósio Internacional de Musicologia (Bollos, 2015), in which two versions of “Desainado” were discussed. The Chega de Saudade and Jazz Samba versions were a development of the Bossa Nova and Criticism discipline adminstered by the au- thor at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, as part of her postdoctoral research funded by CAPES-PNPD.