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Antonio Carlos Jobim - Antonio Carlos Jobim's Finest Hour Audio CD

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Antonio Carlos Jobim Band: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Title: Antonio Carlos Jobim's Finest Hour
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Release Date: 2000-06-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Girl from Ipanema 2: Desafinado 3: Corcovado 4: Agua de Beber 5: O Morro N�o Tem Vez - Vin�cius de Moraes, Antonio Carlos Jobim 6: Insensatez 7: One Note Samba 8: Meditation (Medita��o) 9: Chega de Saudade 10: Wave 11: Girl from Ipanema 12: Remember 13: Rancho Nas Nuvens 14: �guas de Mar�o (Waters of March) 15: In�til Paisagem (Useless Landscape) 16: Passarim 17: Looks Like December

Jobim, more than a classic
I enjoyed listening to his music even more than in the past. Jobim transends time with his cool and timeless style.


What about Joao Gilberto?
It is true that Tom Jobim is a musical genius, wrote many of the songs that we identify as bossa nova, and is one of only two musicians that I know of to have an international airport named after him (the other is Louis Armstrong). Strange you should mention Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto in this review and leave out Joao Gilberto. But Joao is generally considered to be the inventor of the particular style that came to be called bossa nova [. . . ].

So by all means buy and listen to anything by Tom Jobim, but be sure to buy and listen to anything by Joao Gilberto also.


Great at first, ultimately disappointing
After I started exploring other recordings and returned to this CD, I realized that it's not that great after all, flawed actually. Listening to this compilation gave me the chills at first, but it was also an introduction for me into Jobim's work and Bossa Nova in general (though this is cetainly to Bossa Nova per se, don't get me wrong). Buying better headphones didn't increase my appreciation for the mastering either.


Bossa Nova
Playful, fun, peaceful. I love Bossa Nova music. It took a flower sellers insight to tell Antonio Carlos Jobim that he was destined for greater things. It took a flower seller to see the genius of the man and the music. We have loved it ever since.

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A Good Primer For Beginners ; One Mislabeled Track
The classic versions of "Girl From Ipanema", "Corcovado" and "Desafinado" with Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto are included with this compilation, but the best material on this CD are the tracks from Jobim's 1963 'The Composer of Desafinado, Plays' album, which are beautiful instrumental versions of his best-known compositions, complete with Claus Ogerman's lush orchestra. For those beginning to explore the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Bossa Nova in general, 'Antonio Carlos Jobim's Finest Hour' is a nice first album. Some might think that these particular tracks sound like "Elevator Music", but listen carefully and you'll find a depth of emotion and beauty in Jobim's spare, haunting piano playing and sideman Jimmy Cleveland's trombone solos that will change your preconceptions about lush orchestral music.

One Warning: 'Antonio Carlos Jobim's Finest Hour' has a mislabeled track, "O Morro Nao Tem Vez (AKA Favela)" is actually "Amor Em Paz ("Once I Loved"). Both tracks are from the "The Composer of Desafinado, Plays" album. The latter is the more popular song, but "O Morro Nao Tem Vez" is one of the most underrated songs Jobim ever wrote and a masterpiece in its own right. The remainder of the songs on 'Finest Hour' come from Jobim's other albums dating from the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. These tracks do not have the same wondrous beauty as those earlier, 1960s-era cuts, (hence the four star rating) but are still worth your undidvided attention. .


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