Frank Sinatra’s 1967 album with Brazilian music legend Antonio Carlos Jobim, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, is being expanded for its 50th Anniversary Edition, to be released April 7 on CD and digitally. On the same date, the remastered original album will be released on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl LP and in a limited blue vinyl edition, available exclusively from the Sinatra Shop and UDiscover Music.
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, according to a press release, “brought together two maestros from divergent musical worlds in a serene sigh of sun-dappled bossa-nova. In evening studio sessions at Hollywood’s Western Recorders between January 30 and February 1, 1967, Sinatra breathed new life into the album’s 10 songs, accompanied vocally on four by Jobim, who also played guitar on the album.”
The album’s tracks include seven Jobim originals and three Great American Songbook classics, arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman with a studio orchestra, and produced by Sonny Burke.
“I haven’t sung so soft since I had the laryngitis,” joked Sinatra during their first evening together in the studio, easing into the hushed swing of the sessions.
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Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim in the recording studio. (Photo: Frank Sinatra Enterprises; used with permission)
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim ascended Billboard’s albums chart in April 1967, peaking at #19 and remaining on the chart for 28 weeks. The 50th Anniversary Edition’s CD and digital formats include two bonus tracks: a medley of “Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars”/“Change Partners”/“I Concentrate on You”/“The Girl from Ipanema” from A Man And His Music + Ella + Jobim, and a previously unreleased studio session of “The Girl from Ipanema” from January 31, 1967.
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Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (50th Anniversary Edition) Track List
CD / Digital
The Girl from Ipanema
Dindi
Change Partners
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
Meditation
If You Never Come to Me
How Insensitive
I Concentrate on You
Baubles, Bangles and Beads
Once I Loved
Bonus Tracks
Sinatra-Jobim Medley: Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars/Change Partners/I Concentrate on You/The Girl from Ipanema (from A Man And His Music + Ella + Jobim
The Girl from Ipanema (previously unreleased studio session from January 31, 1967)
180g Vinyl LP / Limited Edition Blue Vinyl LP
SIDE 1
The Girl from Ipanema
Dindi
Change Partners
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
Meditation
SIDE 2
If You Never Come to Me
How Insensitive
I Concentrate on You
Baubles, Bangles and Beads
Once I Loved
Watch Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim perform “The Girl from Ipanema”
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