Genres
Production Companies
Regina Filmes
Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim
Music According to Tom Jobim (A Música Segundo Tom Jobim)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Dora Jobim
Screenplay: Miúcha, Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Top 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)
