
The Music According to Tom Jobim
May 20 2012
•1h 24m
•Documentary, Music
Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with "The Girl from Ipanema." This relaxed, cool, sensuous music blended jazz and samba. After recording an album of songs by his friend Jobim, Frank Sinatra is reported to have said, "I haven't sung so quietly since I had laryngitis." Naturally, "The Girl from Ipanema" and Frank Sinatra are featured in this musical collage of countless seamlessly edited excerpts of concert footage that cover decades of events all over the world: from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon, Paris, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Montreal, New York and back to Rio.
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Antônio Carlos Jobim
Self (archive footage)

Gal Costa
Self (archive footage)

Sarah Vaughan
Self (archive footage)

Ella Fitzgerald
Self (archive footage)
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