The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim

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The Wonderful World of Antônio Carlos Jobim
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Studio album by Antônio Carlos Jobim
Released 1965
Recorded 1965
Genre Latin jazz, bossa nova
Length29:11
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Jimmy Hillard
Antônio Carlos Jobim chronology
The Composer of Desafinado Plays
(1963) The Composer of Desafinado Plays1963		The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim
(1965)		 Wave
(1967) Wave1967

The Wonderful World of Antônio Carlos Jobim (#57 US albums 1965) is the second studio album by Antônio Carlos Jobim with arrangements by Nelson Riddle. It was released in 1965.

Antônio Carlos Jobim Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer. Widely considered as one of the great exponents of Brazilian music, Jobim is the artist who internationalized bossa nova and, with the help of important American artists, merged it with jazz in the 1960s to create a new sound with remarkable popular success.

Nelson Riddle American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator

Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. His work for Capitol Records kept such vocalists as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith household names. He found commercial and critical success again in the 1980s with a trio of Platinum albums with Linda Ronstadt. His orchestrations earned an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards.

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Reception

Nelson Riddle’s biographer, Peter J. Levinson, said, "[T]he most beautiful album that Nelson ever arranged in his entire career was The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim, recorded in 1965. It is really the inner workings of the Jobim/Riddle combination—the tenderness and sensuality that predominated throughout this recording—that revealed how much Nelson and 'Tom' Jobim were soulmates.... Nelson used a mixture of flutes, trombones, and strings to perfectly convey the romanticism of the samba. Jobim's Portuguese and heavily accented English vocals and guitar blended seamlessly with Nelson's arrangements." [1]

Peter James Levinson was an American music publicist and biographer, particularly of jazz musicians.

John Bush in an AllMusic review was more critical of the album, saying the promising duo was limited by Riddle's "surprisingly safe" arrangements and Jobim's "quavering vocals." Still, Bush commended Jobim's subtle interpretation on songs like "Dindi" and "A Felicidade" and called "She's a Carioca" a cheerful sequel to "The Girl from Ipanema." [2]

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Track listing

All music composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, lyricists indicated

  1. "She's a Carioca" (Vinicius de Moraes, Ray Gilbert) –2:38
  2. "Agua de Beber" (de Moraes, Gimbel) –2:29
  3. "Surfboard" –2:24
  4. "Useless Landscape" (Gilbert, Aloísio de Oliveira) –2:18
  5. "Só Tinha de Ser Com Você" (Oliveira) –2:29
  6. "A Felicidade" (de Moraes) –2:07
  7. "Bonita" (Gene Lees) –2:09
  8. "Favela" (de Moraes) –2:37
  9. "Valsa de Pôrto das Caixas" –3:22
  10. "Samba do Avião" –2:13
  11. "Por Toda a Minha Vida" (de Moraes) –1:51
  12. "Dindi" (Gilbert, Oliveira) –2:35

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Levinson, Peter J., September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle, Billboard Books, New York, 2001. ISBN   9780823076727>
  2. ↑ "The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim - Antônio Carlos Jobim | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
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