Track Listing

1. The Girl From Ipanema
2. Dindi
3. Change Partners
4. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
5. Meditation
6. If You Never Come To Me
7. How Insensitive
8. I Concentrate On You
9. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
10. Once I Loved

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1233 in Music
• Released on: 1998-05-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Amazon.com essential recording
Multitalented Brazilian musician Jobim's talent was revealed to a larger world in 1959 by his and Luis Bonfa's score for the film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) in 1959. Songs such as "A Felicidade" and "Desafinado" generated the bossa nova movement of the early '60s that inspired the likes of Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd, and Miles Davis. This 1967 album features Jobim sharing vocals with Sinatra on "The Girl from Ipanema" and "How Insensitive." Three standards--"Change Partners" by Irving Berlin; "I Concentrate on You" by Cole Porter; and Robert Wright, George Forrest, and Alexander Borodin's "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads"--round out the program of seven Jobim tunes. This is a lovely taste of Latin melody and rhythm from two masters of relaxed swing. --Stanley Booth

Customer Reviews

Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim
What a combination! Smooth Frankie and the romantic latin of Jobim. Meltingly romantic as well as elegant, sophisticated and seductive. Just add champagne, candlelight and a loved one.

Fashionable for the sixties.. dreary for the oughties
I bought this record in the sixties when I thought Sinatra could do no wrong. I hadn't heard it for decades until I bought the cd fron Amazon- big mistake! The older I get, the more I realise Sinatra's best recording years by far were at Capitol. Even if the song or arrangement were second rate, you still got the honey dripping warmth in The Voice. This is a prime example of FS in the sixties- floundering about, not certain of his material in the face of rock and roll. These were the years of recording Rod Mckuen, Winchester Cathedral,Watertown etc. ending with the execrable Duets. The man couldn't not record and subsequently we have lots of records with a much diminished voice. The Jobim albums are badly dated- his whispering voice has no distinguishing qualities and the arrangments are horrible(excepting the three non-Jobim tracks). On some tracks,Ogerman has the orchestra just stop playing. No drama, no Riddle-esque style. Apart from Ring a Ding Ding, Sinatra and Strings (far and away his best Reprise album), Concert Sinatra, the first Basie album and Sinatra and Swingin' Brass, nothing else is worth buying from his Reprise years, and the Jobim effort is among the worst.

Smooth
Have beautiful memories of "Quiet Nights"--what do young lovers use for mood music these days? This album is definitely one of Sinatra's best collaborations and one I never tire of.