Antonio Carlos Jobim - Tide
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Free Music Notes for Tide
Free Music Review: The Best Tom Jobim in His Collaboration with Creed Taylor
Hit: 5 Stars
It is undeniably true that the best Tom Jobim was recorded under Creed Taylor production on Verve ("The Composer Plays") and for Taylor's CTI, including "Tide". A delicious rendition of "The Girl of Ipanema" + plus a new song entitled "Sue Ann" are the best tracks. Arrangements by Eumir Deodato. This CD is a must-have in any serious Bossa Nova collection.Free Music Review: Suave, Sophisticated, and Romantic
Hit: 5 Stars
I originally bought this CD on a Japanese import about a year ago after despairing of ever finding it on a domestic label. Now we have it! Though its been more than 30 years since its original release, Tide is just as delightful today as it ever was. There are those who would despise this as elevator music-those with a tin ear who know not the difference between mellow and schlock.Jobim, one of the founding fathers of the bossa nova sound, is nothing if not the King of Mellow and the apex of his creativity is to be heard on a trio of CTI/A&M albums released in the late 60s. Tide is one of these. (Wave and Stoneflower are the others.) The album opens with a familiar and overplayed, yet enjoyable rendition of Girl from Ipanema. Then the album becomes a nice mix between the laid-back and the up-tempo but always MELLOW.My favorites on the album are Tema Jazz (featuring an Ian Anderson-like flute solo by Hermeto Pascoal) and Rockanalia which features an understated but powerful show of Jobim's famous "one-note" piano style. On the more relaxed side, my favorites are the title cut, again featuring an excellent restrained Jobim piano interlude, and the romantic Carinhoso. There is not a bad song on the album. Tide surely deserves a place in the collection of every jazz and bossa nova enthusiast. The title of this review describes Tide perfectly.Free Music Review: The second album in the Jobim Trilogy...
Hit: 4 Stars
I have owned Tide in LP form since it came out in 1970. I have always enjoyed it and my favorite tracks are "Sue Ann" and "Remember". The track "Tide" is, of course a spinoff of "Wave"--as you can even hum (or sing, if you are so inclined!) "Wave" while "Tide" is playing. This album is the second in the Jobim trilogy which is comprised of "Wave", "Tide", and "Stone Flower". They are each separate masterpieces, but what Jobim intended to convey is better felt if you listen to all three albums in that order. Overall, where the music is concerned, I would not rate this album quite as high as "Wave", but it's very close.Free Music Review: Fixing unbroken things
Hit: 4 Stars
Around 2 or 3 years ago, I bought a CD reissue of "Tide" put out by a Brazilian distributor. It was EXACTLY the same as the original LP. I would have given it 5 stars without blinking. None of the music on it was changed in any way. The Verve Music Group has endeavored, in all its reissues, to expand on the original packaging with more photos, notes, etc. and also to add alternate takes. I, for one, have always appreciated those efforts. However, on this reissue, not only have they done all of the above, they've also remixed some, if not all of the original LP content. Since I always felt that "Tide" was a complete and perfect classic, not just within its genre but in general, I am inclined to want to string up by his or her toes the individual responsible for that sacrilegious decision.
If you know the original really well, you will get the strange feeling that some things are different about the music. To be fair, the remixing doesn't constitute complete desecration in all cases. But in the track "Takatanga" for example, the bass flute which, in my opinion, made the track what it was, has been COMPLETELY REMOVED! The perverted motivation behind this decision can barely be imagined.
The alternate takes are interesting but only because they demonstrate clearly why they didn't become part of the original.
Antonio Carlos Jobim has always been one of my musical heros and it pains me to give any CD of his less than 5 stars, especially when he was such an active player on it.
Free Music Review: Essential Jobim
Hit: 4 Stars
I prefer the subtle and melancholy magic of "Wave," but "Tide" is pure and essential Jobim. Every track is outstanding, but the album as a whole lacks the underlying melancholic beauty of "Wave." It occasionally swings (i.e. sections of "Garota de Ipanema") and I think that this detracts from the laid-back flavour that I've come to know and love from Jobim. Still, make no mistake-- this is an incredible album (a classy reissue as well!), and belongs in the collection of anyone interested in bossa-nova.