Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Reprise Records (1967)
- If You Never Come To Me
- How Insensitive
- I Concentrate On You
- Baubles, Bangles, And Beads
- Once I Loved
- The Girl From Ipanema
- Dindi
- Change Partners
- Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
- Meditation
A remarkable collaboration with the Brazilian legend that allowed Sinatra to further explore developing trends in music—in this case, the new jazz-influenced Latin music called Bossa Nova. Having founded his own recording label and then selling it to Warner Brothers gave Sinatra the freedom to choose who he wanted to collaborate with regardless of the fickle tastes of the public or the demands of the recording company executuves. Light-years from the up-tempo swingers charted by Billy May and the hard-driving rhythms of the Count Basie Orchestra that marked his earlier recordings in the Sixties, "Jobim" swings and sways so gently that Sinatra once quipped that to sing any softer during these recording sessions, he'd have have to be flat on his back.
Sinatra continued to experiment with the Bossa Nova sound over the next
several years with the intention of releasing another album of recordings
with Jobim. The project never came to fruition, however, but in 1969
several of the recordings were released on the album Sinatra & Co.
Although
he rarely listened to his own recordings, during his short retirement
in 1971, Sinatra was often found listening to the song Wave
from the Sinatra & Co. album. He said he loved the way he nailed the
bass notes.
Recorded on January 30, 31, and February 1, 1967.
