Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave
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Free Music Review: Great mix of jazz and bossa nova
Hit: 5 Stars
Mix jazz and bossa nova, and a little of love and sexy beats, and you get one of the best albums of Jobim.
It's difficult to choose which is better, singing or playing keys. Not mention the incredible compositions. He is always the best
Free Music Review: Riding the "Wave"
Hit: 5 Stars
Far too short as far as I'm concerned. After the final song, I wanted more. I repeated it over and over again the day it arrived. Since then, it has not left my car stereo CD player and something even more monumental would have to replace it. "Mojave" is my new most favorite instrumental song of all time. Prior to that, Bach's Fugue in E topped my list. Simply put, the most interesting CD I own.Free Music Review: Bossa Nova's Finest (5/5)
Hit: 5 Stars
Rio de Janeiro is one of the most striking destinations on the Pacific Ocean. Its exotic landscapes are as easily recognizable as anywhere I can think of. Some of the images that come to mind are: sailboats, cigars, warm golden sunsets, the ocean, good wine, great seafood, gentle wind, clean air, relaxing nightlife, the `70s, and beautiful people. With that short list alone, it's easy to see how Brazil could be responsible for some of the most gorgeous music in the history of the modern world. Bossa Nova, specifically, is the most globally recognizable form of music to come out of Brazil, and is partially accountable for a lot of the smooth elements in today's jazz and easy listening genres.
Antonio Carlos Jobim is the artist primarily responsible for the Bossa Nova movement, and his album Wave is his unequivocal masterpiece. Outside of the famous Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz song, "Girl from Ipanema," no other song/album is as representative to the aesthetic of Bossa Nova music as Wave. Nothing else comes close to matching the heart-wrenching sophistication of the songs within this short 32-minute gem.
For the most part, it's damn near impossible to think negative thoughts under the influence of Wave. The approach of the album is utterly amazing and light-hearted, while concurrently upbeat and erotic. It contains three basic elements; guitar, piano, and orchestration. Jobim contributes the first two, while longtime collaborator/arranger/conductor Claus Ogerman (along with Deodato, Ron Carter, and others) provides the delicate background orchestrations that lift this album to immeasurable heights.
Wave is primarily an instrumental album, with the only exception of "Lamento," where we briefly hear Jobim sing with his raspy and sultry voice. Every song on the album is stylistically similar, but creates an overall mood that could, or should, last for much longer than it does here. Luckily, a few years after the release of Wave, Jobim released another album somewhat similar in style, called Tide. His first album, The Composer of Desafinado, Plays isn't too shabby of a recording either. Take any combination of these together and you'll have what could be one of the most peaceful music experiences ever. With Wave, in particular, you'll find repeated listening will become a must.
Since music (specifically pop and rock) is becoming stale these days, why not search for something a little more artistic and meditative on the soul? Bossa Nova, while gaining much respect and recognition over the past two decades, is still one of the most overlooked genres of music around; especially by our generation. But that's no fault of ours, because it's certainly not promoted in any way. Ultimately, Wave is an album you only need to hear once before it will spark an interest that will uncover an endless list of albums by some of the world's most forgotten artists. Wave is the quintessential Bossa Nova album, and, consequently, remains one of the best albums I've discovered in the recent years.
Free Music Review: The Primitive Sophisticate
Hit: 5 Stars
As a consumer, I appreciate Jobim's genius as a creator of wonderful music and great albums. In fact, this is the most romantic instrumental album I know of, great for setting a mood, heck, some of it just plain sounds like languid sex ("Dialogo"). As a musician, I am simply in awe of Jobim's unique blend of earthiness and sophistication--the melodies, the connection to nature, the "primitive" rhythms--combined with chords and chord progressions of the highest complexity. The chords to his songs are absolutely jazz to the extreme, and yet it is all grounded by the Brazilian natural world. Jobim was a musical genius, and the main thing he brings to the world of music was....beauty. I had the pleasure of hearing a band play that consisted of Jobim's son and grandson and his cello player from when he played gigs, along with an exquisite female vocalist. They did his songs justice. The music world is a better place because of Jobim.Free Music Review: Claus Ogerman did the brilliant orchestrations
Hit: 5 Stars
From CLAUS OGERMAN by Gene Lees: "But he became best known and respected for a series of albums with Jobim. These amounted to far more than arrangements of the Jobim songs. This was a remarkable collaboration whose precedent, really, is that between Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, and it's hard to know where Jobim ends and Claus begins ... Tommy [LiPuma] is awed by the way Claus writes unison string lines that are somehow perfect. It sounds like a simple thing--after all, the violins are playing the same lines. But there is always something eerily beautiful about those lines."
"Eerily beautiful" is an exact description of the crescendoing strings at the end of LOOK TO THE SKY. And at the very end you hear a brief piano passage played by Jobim himself.