Jazz Advent Calendar 2025: Day 4 - The Girl from Ipanema 🏖️

Welcome to Day 4 of the 2025 Jazz Advent Calendar. Today, we are taking a detour to Brazil with Antonio Carlos Jobim’s bossa nova masterpiece, "The Girl from Ipanema." It’s a song about beauty, but also about longing and the sadness of being ignored. In the real world, we cannot afford to ignore what is happening. I am dedicating this performance to the Hind Rajab Foundation. While the world often looks away, this organisation is steadfastly looking at—and documenting—the crimes committed by Israel in Palestine. They are building the necessary legal cases to challenge impunity and demand consequences for these human rights violations. Please help them turn the tide from silence to accountability by donating below. 🔗 Support their legal work: https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/donate See you tomorrow for Day 5.