- The Girl from Ipanema
- Dindi
- Change Partners
- Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
- Meditation (Meditação)
- If You Never Come to Me
- How Insensitive (Insensatez)
- I Concentrate on You
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads
- Once I Loved (O Amor em Paz)
Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim is a soothing album. The songs are in the bossa nova style. Sinatra sounds really good and Jobim is so unassuming that you forget he's playing the guitar and the piano. It's only when he is singing that you remember he's there. It's not meant as a slight against Jobim. He is the music and the music is great.
I'm not quite sure why this album is on the 1001 Albums list. For 1967, the album is slightly anachronistic. This album is germane to either the late '50s or early '60s, but not late '60s. It's not that an album has to be progressive, but bossa nova music doesn't have much variation, nor do the pop standards that are Sinatra's forté. You could have listened to In the Wee Small Hours and Getz/Gilberto back-to-back and have gotten a similar experience.
It's a good album, especially if you like Sinatra. The stand out songs are The Girl from Ipanema, Dindi, Change Partners, How Insensitive (Insensatez), I Concentrate on You and Baubles, Bangles and Beads.
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
I'm not quite sure why this album is on the 1001 Albums list. For 1967, the album is slightly anachronistic. This album is germane to either the late '50s or early '60s, but not late '60s. It's not that an album has to be progressive, but bossa nova music doesn't have much variation, nor do the pop standards that are Sinatra's forté. You could have listened to In the Wee Small Hours and Getz/Gilberto back-to-back and have gotten a similar experience.
It's a good album, especially if you like Sinatra. The stand out songs are The Girl from Ipanema, Dindi, Change Partners, How Insensitive (Insensatez), I Concentrate on You and Baubles, Bangles and Beads.
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
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