Frank Sinatra - Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
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Free Music Review: Different from all other Sinatra albums...
Hit: 5 Stars
Sinatra had to work hard to get this sound. He sings almost as if he is whispering.
Beautiful, relaxing, peaceful...
The only thing that I can think of that would have made this album better is having more music. The album always ends with me wanting more...so I put it on again...
I must also say that this album will always be associated with my childrens' infant days. Two years ago when my son was a couple of months old, listening to this album was the only thing that could console him in the evenings. As I am writing this review I am listening to Sinatra and Jobim as my wife is rocking my 7-week-old daughter. Once again, the "magic" album has cast its spell.
My wife and I both love this album (not to mention my children).
If you are a Sinatra fan (as I am), I think you'll appreciate the different flavor of this album. The songs are not on any compilation I've ever heard. This music is very different.
If you are a Sinatra fan, you should also check out some of the live Rat Pack albums out there. I never get tired of hearing Frank, Dean and Sammy ham it up...
Free Music Review: Top Notch
Hit: 5 Stars
This is Frank at his best! It doesn't get any better (or any smoother) than this.Free Music Review: I love this album
Hit: 5 Stars
Great vocals, great songs, great guitar. I adore "Quiet Nights and Quiet Stars," and this album will take you on vacation in your living room.Free Music Review: Perfection
Hit: 5 Stars
One reviewer of the Getz/Gilberto album says that album would be one he'd take into the afterlife. For me, it is this collaboration between two of my favorite jazz artists of the 20th century - Sinatra and Jobim. First there is the music itself... delicate, light as breeze across naked skin. There are a lot of layers here - guitar, percussion, delicate trumpet -all of which are arranged superbly by Claus Ogerman to underscore rather than compete with each other. It is cool jazz laid atop of shaved ice.
Then, of course, there is Sinatra. A very different sort of Frank came to these sessions. Gone is the hyperbole and beloved histrionics that made his "ring-a-ding" and crooner personas so endearing. But Sinatra changes personas as surely as Ziggy became the Thin White Duke. He becomes "Francis." A liliting, delicate, but still supremely masculine singer, navigating through Jobim's textures on a glider rather than a Lear jet. This instinct for the material, so quiet, yet so clear, causes the listener to feel Sinatra effortlessly inhabit the material, not like a tourist, but as a native. The visual on "Cocorvado"is one of a mature Frank under a tree, shirtless, tan, in cargo-pants, strumming his ramshackle guitar while local girls swoon nearby.
I adore all of Sinatra's concept albums, but this gem holds special place in my heart for it manages to connect the cultures without being overly dear or condescending. There is the feeling of summer romance here. The feeling of two men finding the right notes again and again.
Free Music Review: Quiet Nights of Quiet Songs
Hit: 5 Stars
Soft, muted, sun-drenched Brazilian jazz lyrics blended with equal parts of Sinatra, Jobim, and Claus Ogerman equal one of the most interesting and eclectic concept albums of the Sinatra canon. Antonio Carlos Jobim has been referred to as the George Gershwin of Brazil. His low-key romantic rhythms powered the 60's Bossa Nova craze and impressed Sinatra sufficiently to commit to a truly experimental album. There are only ten tracks, and only seven of them were written by Jobim. The album is barely twenty-eight minutes in length, and it was arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman. His delicate, string-drenched orchestrations provide the perfect canvas for The Voice and Jobim to showcase their diametrically opposite but complementary musical talents. Jobim's romantic guitar and unobtrusive vocals mesh effortlessly with the most deliberately restrained recording of Sinatra's entire career. This was a project that greatly interested Sinatra, and it shows in the terrific and successful effort he made not to overpower the melody or the lyrics or the emotional tone and feeling of the music. The result is one of the great, classic concept albums of the 20th century. It works because Sinatra was a musical genius who could succeed in almost any musical universe. In lesser hands this album would be nothing more than mindless elevator music, but Sinatra and Jobim become musical soul-mates and create an album of great subtlety and depth. The best track on the album is "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars," but everything else is equally outstanding. Be sure to buy the 1971 follow-up, "Sinatra and Friends." It's also outstanding, but not as well-known or revered as this 1967 effort. "Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim" ranks in the top ten of the entire Sinatra discography of albums. It is hauntingly beautiful, eclectically daring, and a bilingual Sinatra treasure.