Minna Lasanen(voc) & Zhenia Gimer(p): Desafinado

This version was recorded at the terrace of jazz club “Storyville“ (Helsinki). “Desafinado“, a Portuguese word (usually rendered into English as “Out of Tune“, or as “Off Key“), is the title of a bossa nova song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with lyrics (in Portuguese) by Newton Mendonça. The English language lyrics were written by Jon Hendricks and “Jessie Cavanaugh“ (a pseudonym used by The Richmond Organisation). Another English lyric, more closely based on the original Portuguese lyric (but