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The Music According to Tom Jobim

7.0 84 mins Documentary   Music   2012
Natura   Regina Filmes   Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim  
Director(s): Nelson Pereira dos Santos Dora Jobim

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.

Casts of The Music According to Tom Jobim

AntĂ´nio Carlos Jobim

as Self (archive footage)

Gal Costa

as Self (archive footage)

Sarah Vaughan

as Self (archive footage)

Ella Fitzgerald

as Self (archive footage)

Caetano Veloso

as Self (archive footage)

Judy Garland

as Self (archive footage)

Chico Buarque

as Self (archive footage)

Sammy Davis Jr.

as Self (archive footage)

Oscar Peterson

as Self (archive footage)

Diana Krall

as Self (archive footage)

Lio

as Self (archive footage)

Dizzy Gillespie

as Self (archive footage)

Birgit BrĂ¼el

as Self (archive footage)

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