Since a few of us have the three 'unreleased' Sinatra/Jobim tracks...anyone care to comment on them?
First thing that crosses my mind--with these three tracks, and the seven from Sinatra & Co., why didn't they just make another short 10-song album out of it and make it another Sinatra/Jobim album? These three songs beat anything else on the flip side of Sinatra & Co..
As it stands, I took the 10 original Sinatra/Jobim tracks, added the seven from Sinatra & Co., then followed those with the three remaining tracks in this order:
"Bonita" I'd only discovered recently when I bought the Jobim Composer Series CD on the Warner Archives label. (That CD is very similar to the Sinatra sessions--if you enjoyed those, you'd like this CD.) The treatment by Sinatra just sends it over the top! Has to be one of my top 3 favorites from the songs they did together! With tracks like this, you'd wonder why they would include fluff like "Change Partners" on the original Sinatra/Jobim album.
"Song Of The Sabia" I don't really care for. Not that Sinatra does a bad job on it, but the song itself just seems to wander about aimlessly.
"Desafinado" has some vocal rough edges (almost sounding "unfinished"), but other than that, ends out the set nicely. Possibly understandable why they didn't include this on the official album...could be the producer(s) thought Jobim's voice was a little too rough in comparison to Sinatras. (Although for us, that's part of Jobim's charm. )
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NP: Michael Franks, Sleeping Gypsy (which features the song "Antonio" about his friend, a certain Mr. Jobim )
First thing that crosses my mind--with these three tracks, and the seven from Sinatra & Co., why didn't they just make another short 10-song album out of it and make it another Sinatra/Jobim album? These three songs beat anything else on the flip side of Sinatra & Co..
As it stands, I took the 10 original Sinatra/Jobim tracks, added the seven from Sinatra & Co., then followed those with the three remaining tracks in this order:
"Bonita" I'd only discovered recently when I bought the Jobim Composer Series CD on the Warner Archives label. (That CD is very similar to the Sinatra sessions--if you enjoyed those, you'd like this CD.) The treatment by Sinatra just sends it over the top! Has to be one of my top 3 favorites from the songs they did together! With tracks like this, you'd wonder why they would include fluff like "Change Partners" on the original Sinatra/Jobim album.
"Song Of The Sabia" I don't really care for. Not that Sinatra does a bad job on it, but the song itself just seems to wander about aimlessly.
"Desafinado" has some vocal rough edges (almost sounding "unfinished"), but other than that, ends out the set nicely. Possibly understandable why they didn't include this on the official album...could be the producer(s) thought Jobim's voice was a little too rough in comparison to Sinatras. (Although for us, that's part of Jobim's charm. )
-= N =-
NP: Michael Franks, Sleeping Gypsy (which features the song "Antonio" about his friend, a certain Mr. Jobim )