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Recorded between 1965 and 1967. Includes liner notes by Bob Blumenthal.
This compilation focuses on an often-overlooked aspect of the legendary Brazilian composer's career: his own recordings. Jobim changed the face of Brazilian music, and pop music in general, by pioneering bossa nova, a genre that fused the Brazilian samba with a jazzy harmonic sensibility and the melodic constructions of American pop composers like Cole Porter and George Gershwin. His songs have been recorded by such American giants as Frank Sinatra and Stan Getz, as well as Brazilians like Astrud & Joao Gilberto. Jobim's own recording career has garnered far less attention than his songs. But these mid-'60s sides show that Jobim had much to offer as an interpreter of his own compositions.
Jobim's music is soft and sensual, but never loses the underlying rhythmic lilt that is synonymous with bossa nova. Songs like "Agua De Beber" and "Photograph" exemplify his ability to float an elegant melodic line over an irresistible groove. The unusual chord changes and highly evolved harmonic structures of Jobim's compositions, equally influenced by American jazz and Brazilian classicists like Villa-Lobos, are exemplified on "Dindi" and "Desafinado (Off-Key)," whose lyrics cast self-deprecating aspersions on Jobim's endearingly unschooled, often flat singing. A line from "Desafinado" puts it best: "It's a crooked song, but all my love is there."
Live Recording
Personnel includes: Antonio Carlos Jobim (vocals, guitar); Claus Ogerman, Nelson Riddle (conductor, arranger); Dick Hyman (organ); Luiz Eca (piano).
Producers include: Jimmy Hilliard, Ray Gilbert, Louis Oliveira, George Lee.
JazzTimes (3/97, p.80) - "...Tom is in good voice and has a close touch with the people. His melodies may sound like a Satie sonatina...or a tin-pan alley tango at times, but here he's at his best cruising Rio's beaches like Corcovado with Bonita, Carioca, Dindi, Surfboard, Desafinado, and yes, that omnipresent girl from Ipanema..."
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Composer Album Track Listing
Trk
Song
Time
Price
1
She's a Carioca Lp Version
2:37
$0.69
2
Agua De Beber Lp Version António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:30
$0.69
3
Surfboard Album Version António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:24
$0.69
4
Useless Landscape Lp Version
2:17
$0.69
5
So' Tinha De Ser Com Voce Lp Version
2:27
$0.69
6
Felicidade António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:06
$0.69
7
Bonita António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:09
$0.69
8
Favela António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:36
$0.69
9
Valsa De Porto Das Caixas António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
3:20
$0.69
10
Samba de Aviao António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:11
$0.69
11
Por Toda A Mima Vida
1:51
$0.69
12
Dindi António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:36
$0.69
13
Hurry Up And Love Me António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:30
$0.99
14
Pardon My English António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
1:57
$0.69
15
Bonita António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:55
$0.69
16
Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Voce
2:16
$0.69
17
Off-Key
3:07
$0.69
18
Photograph António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:09
$0.69
19
Surfboard António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:45
$0.69
20
Once Again
2:09
$0.69
21
I Was Just One More For You António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:24
$0.69
22
Estrada Do Sol
3:28
$0.69
23
Don't Ever Go Away António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:45
$0.69
24
Zingaro António Carlos Jobim, Antônio Carlos Jobim
2:16
$0.69
25
I Was Just One More For You
2:25
$0.69
26
Photograph
2:11
$0.69
27
Don't Ever Go Away
2:53
$0.69
28
Off-Key
3:06
$0.69
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