Antonio Carlos Jobim & Friends [Live]

Oscar Castro-Neves, Antonio Carlos Jobim | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 4, 1996)
• Original Release Date: June 4, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B00000473B
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,878 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #34 in Music > World Music > Latin Music > Brazilian > Bossa Nova
  • #62 in Music > Jazz > Brazilian Jazz

Track Listings

1. Prelude: Inútil Paisagem/Triste/Esperança Perdida [Medley]

2. Ela é Carioca

3. The Boy from Ipanema

4. Once I Loved (O Amor en Paz)

5. O Grande Amor

6. Chega de Saudade (No More Blues)

7. Agua de Beber

8. A Felicidade

9. Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você

10. Luiza

11. Wave

12. Caminhos Cruzados

13. Finale: The Girl from Ipanema

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good on the whole, with some weak points, November 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Antonio Carlos Jobim & Friends (Audio CD)

Most of this album is wonderful, with great performances by Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, and Shirley Horn. Gal Costa is good, but she lets the quality of her voice waver a bit too much at times. Jon Hendricks is a bit obnoxious on his tracks, and while I have the deepest respect for Jobim as a composer and musician, his vocals (especially in his later years) seem a bit forced and melodramatic--totally against the underlying feeling of the music he helped give birth to, bossa nova. Pick it up if you love everything about Jobim and bossa nova, but casual listeners should probably pass and get the verve compilations of Gilberto/Getz/Jobim.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars just watch the concert, April 8, 2006

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E.G. "A jazz and bossa lover" (Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Antonio Carlos Jobim & Friends (Audio CD)

You can't base your opinion about this album, just by listening to it..you've got to watch the live performance, it's absolutely magnificent. You get to experience such an emotional power put upon all the music.. I think that's what makes this album so great: the way Jobim, Gal and the others give themselves to their sound, it's all just so true, so natural.. Jobim's performance on Luiza made me sit still from the first note till the very last one faded.. and I'm afraid since I listened (and watched) to it, I was nevermore able to enjoy another version, althoug I recognize that, for instance, Chico Buarque's one is quite good.. but there's no way anyone will ever love that song as Jobim did, and he let it all out so truthfully that we might as well just love the man and his legacy, which includes this wonderful encounter.. Well, buy it if you want to feel it; don't, if you're planning on examining the work until the last detail..

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great album, May 15, 2007

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C. Paul "Dr P.C." (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Antonio Carlos Jobim & Friends (Audio CD)

This cd could be titled "Herbie Hancock and friends", as the pianist initiated and leaded this beautiful project. Some tracks are a bit disappointed, but other are completely worth it: Chega De Saudade, whistled and sang by the great Jon Hendricks, is a real wonder....as is the last tune, Girl from Ipanema, on which the same Hendricks sings "Take the A-train".
This was also for me a good opportunity to discover the funk drummer Harvey Mason on true jazz tunes.
And last, but not least, the album cover is BEAUTIFUL :-)