Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Composer Of Desafinado, Plays (LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered)
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Description
The Composer of Desafinado, Plays is the first album by Antônio Carlos Jobim. Released in 1963, the album features a dozen instrumentals arranged by Claus Ogerman, whose work would mark the beginning of a lifelong musical relationship with Jobim. Of these twelve songs, nearly all of them are jazz standards. The opening track "The Girl from Ipanema" is believed to be the second most recorded song in history behind The Beatles' "Yesterday," and a recording of the song by Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz became a worldwide hit in 1964. Jobim plays both guitar and piano on the album, the latter of which producers resisted because they wanted to present the image of the Latin man and his guitar, which is evident from the album cover itself. Jobim, in a 1988 interview on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, recalled this struggle with American producers:...when I got to the stage, they wouldn't let me play piano here. You know, they said, listen, Antonio, you've got to be the Latin lover. You should play the guitar. You know, if you play the piano you destroy the whole image, you know? So I've been playing guitar for many, many years, you know, which was let's say my second instrument. That was an instrument that I used to play by ear, you know?The album was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2007, Rolling Stone Brasil ranked it number 58 in "Os 100 Maiores Discos da Música Brasileira" (The 100 greatest Brazilian music records). Pete Welding of Down Beat said, "If the bossa nova movement had produced only this record, it would already be fully justified."
Release Info
Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Label: Verve Records
Format: LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country: Europe
Label: Verve Records
Released: 2019-02-22
Genre: Jazz
Style: Bossa Nova
Tracklist
A1 The Girl From Ipanema
A2 O Morro
A3 Agua De Beber
A4 Dreamer
A5 Favela
A6 Insensatez
B1 Corcovado
B2 One Note Samba
B3 Meditation
B4 Jazz Samba (Só Danço Samba) (From The Film "Copacabana Palace")
B5 Chega De Saudade
B6 Desafinado
