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.

• Release date
• May 20, 2012
• Runtime
• 84 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Music
• Director
• Nelson Pereira dos Santos

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)