Music According to Tom Jobim

May. 20,2012      
Rating:
7.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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 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)

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