The Music According to Tom Jobim

The Music According to Tom Jobim

7.0

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.

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Self (archive footage)

Gal Costa

Gal Costa

Self (archive footage)

Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan

Self (archive footage)

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

Self (archive footage)