Music According to Tom Jobim

Music According to Tom Jobim

84 mins | Documentary, Music | May 20, 2012

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.

Music According to Tom Jobim

84 mins | Documentary, Music | May 20, 2012

Music According to Tom Jobim
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.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers Natura, Regina Filmes, Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim
Original title A Música Segundo Tom Jobim
Directors Douglas Soares, Dora Jobim, Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Writers Miúcha, Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast

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)

Lio

as Self (archive footage)

Dizzy Gillespie

as Self (archive footage)

Birgit Brüel

as Self (archive footage)