Antonio Carlos Jobim - Antonio Brasileiro (1994)

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Jobim is recognised the world over as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He has been musically productive right up to his death in December 8th 1994. His last album, "Antonio Brasileiro", was released posthumously soon after.

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01 Só Danço Samba ....... 2:01 (Tom Jobim/Vinicius de Moraes)
02 Piano na Mangueira ....... 2:43 (Tom Jobim/Chico Buarque)
03 How Insensitive (Insensatez) [feat.Sting & Ron Carter] ....... 3:46 (Tom Jobim/Vinicius de Moraes)
04 Querida ....... 3:32 (Tom Jobim)
05 Surfboard ....... 3:09 (Tom Jobim)
06 Samba de Maria Luiza [feat.Maria Luiza Jobim] ....... 1:15 (Tom Jobim)
07 Forever Green [feat.Maria Luiza Jobim] ....... 3:14 (Tom Jobim/Paulo Jobim)
08 Maracangalha ....... 2:41 (Dorival Caymmi)
09 Maricotinha [feat.Dorival Caymmi] ....... 3:50 (Dorival Caymmi)
10 Pato Preto ....... 4:22 (Tom Jobim)
11 Meu Amigo Radamés .......3:56 (Tom Jobim)
12 Blue Train (Trem Azul) ....... 5:00 (Lô Borges/Ronaldo Bastos/Tom Jobim)
13 Radamés y Pelé ....... 2:48 (Tom Jobim)
14 Chora Coração ....... 3:08 (Tom Jobim/Vinicius de Moraes)
15 Trem de Ferro ....... 4:34 (Manuel Bandeira: poem, Tom Jobim: music)

Tom Jobim - piano, vocals
Paulo Jobim - guitar, vocals
Pedro Sá - guitar (#12)
Daniel Jobim - keyboard
Danilo Caymmi - flute, vocals
Paulo Guimarães - flutes
Edu Morelenbaum - clarinet
Jaques Morelenbaum - cellos, vocals
Sebastião Neto - bass
Paulo Braga - drums, percussion
Duduka de Fonseca - percussion
Marcio Montarroyos - trumpet, flugelhorn
Edeneck Svab - horn
Antonio José Augusto - horn
Raul de Souza - trombone
Vitor S.Silva Santos - trombone

Sting - vocals (#3)
Ron Carter - bass (#3)

vocals:
Maria Luiza Jobim (#6,7)
Ana Lontra Jobim
Elisabeth Jobim
Maúcha Adnet
Paula Morelenbaum
Simone Caymmi

String orchestra

Produced by Paulo Jobim & Daniel Jobim (son & grandson)
Fotos & booklet design by Ana Lontra Jobim (wife)

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Not only did Jobim stay active until the end of his life, he showed virtually no signs of creative burnout, as this, his last album, wondrously displays. Surrounded again by family and friends, he delivered a brace of 13 songs and compositions (plus two songs by the veteran songwriter Dorival Caymmi), many of them relatively new, most as heartbreakingly beautiful as anything from the bossa nova years. Sometimes Jobim's voice, never impressive, is almost gone and the production has a rough-hewn finish, but it doesn't matter; Jobim's craft and his brood carry him through, and son Paulo Jobim provides thick but highly competent orchestral arrangements. An especially touching passage is the brief "Samba de Maria Luiza," a Jobim duet with his little daughter Maria Luiza, who also turns up on the succeeding ode for the environment, "Forever Green." The final tone poem, "Trem De Ferro," obviously inspired by Heitor Villa-Lobos, is also the most startling, a strange chugging simulation of a train cutting through the underbrush. There is also an idiomatic duet with Sting on the familiar "How Insensitive" (later included on the Red, Hot and Rio anthology), and Dorival Caymmi makes a guest vocal appearance on "Maricotinha." Obviously Jobim still had a lot to give, making his death later in 1994 an even more poignant blow. Issued for the Latin market only, though pressed in the U.S., the CD is not difficult to locate in well-stocked big city shops. (Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide)

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