The 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.

Directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Dora Jobim

Images

Cast

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Self (archive footage)

Gal Costa

Self (archive footage)

Sarah Vaughan

Self (archive footage)

Ella Fitzgerald

Self (archive footage)

Caetano Veloso

Self (archive footage)

Judy Garland

Self (archive footage)

Chico Buarque

Self (archive footage)

Sammy Davis Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Oscar Peterson

Self (archive footage)

Diana Krall

Self (archive footage)

Lio

Self (archive footage)

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Birgit Brüel

Self (archive footage)

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