Antonio Carlos Jobim Music

Great listening. What fun to find another cd as good as the first. I would highly recommend this cd to all who enjoyed the first. Good music.
Great song selection.

Bubble from Ab Fab sounds exactly like Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland and others. What a talent. She needs her own Las Vegas Show. She would be beyond great!

Jane pulls out all the stops and gives us a stellar recording connecting us to the women who pioneered jazz and standards. Ms. Horrocks' impressions of these amazing women is mind boggling. She has thier voices perfected right down to phrasing and calls there personalities from the great beyond. Thank you Jane for a phenominal recording.

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I recently acquired this CD through amazon.co.uk after catching Ms. Horrocks on Michael Parkinson's BBC talk show. To hear her sing as Garland, Holiday, Dietrich, Bassey and Monroe was simply fantastic. What knocked me out was her choice of songs, and the contributions of Robbie Williams and Ewan McGregor (let us not forget Dino, through the magic of modern technology).

I have become a fan of this gifted performer through her work on "Absolutely Fabulous," and of course, the film that inspired this CD, "Little Voice." More please!!!

I saw Little Voice but never bought the CD. Last Sunday Jane Horrocks was on the Parkinson talk show on BBC America and sang "Too Close for Comfort" as Shirley Bassey. That convinced me that I need to buy this CD. What a talent!

Carol Saboya is the daughter of Antonio Adolfo, a great piano
player and composer. She has a lovely voice and is a great interpreter of a song. Nelson Faria is a wonderful guitar accompanist, and this is quite an album. All the songs are by Jobim, and the choice is off-beat, omitting all the best known. There are some gems here, though I could have done without Chansong and Bonita, two of Jobim's weakest songs - they do show that Ms Saboya sings very well in English as well as Portuguese, however. She has a great future.

Two world class guitarists, great compositions, fantastic arrangements and brilliant sound recording. What a CONCEPT! This is a wonderful CD for any music lovers, not just guitarists.

Après le disque "baroque" et le disque "piazzolla", les Frères Assad ont encore frappé un grand coup dans l'univers de la musique pour guitare,... et de la musique tout court ! Il est peu probable que Debussy ou Gershwin aient pu imaginer un jour leur musique transcrite pour deux guitares, et pourtant les Frères l'ont fait, et avec quel brio ! La transcription de la "Suite Bergamasque" en particulier est une véritable prouesse musicale, car on en oublie très vite son origine pianistique, et son interprétation, qui se compare aux plus belles interprétations traditionnelles au piano, constitue un morceau d'anthologie de cet album. Dommage peut-être que les pièces de la suite ait été séparées sur le disque ; de sorte que la Suite n'est plus... une suite !! Les frères Gershwin ont composé Rhapsody in Blue ; il était naturel que les frères Assad la jouent à merveille ! Et la transcription pour deux guitares est de toute beauté. Les pièces de Jobim sont plus connues, mais on prend un immense plaisir à les écouter dans cette interprétation pour deux guitares... brésiliennes. Une mention toute particulière doit être faite pour la musique, très personnelle, de Clarice Assad (pianiste !...). Mais on ne peut pas parler de ce disque sans évoquer la musique écrite par Sergio Assad lui-même : Tahhia Li Ossoulina, une pièce de musique arabe absolument étonnante, jouée de manière époustouflante, et qui constitue la "cerise sur le gâteau" de ce disque en tout point admirable.

The music in this CD is pleasant and the guitar playing is good but the whole CD felt more like elevator music than serious music which brings out the individuality of these artists. Not much of the music stuck in my head or had me marveling at the beauty of a tune or the virtuosity of the artists.

The Assad's are the best guitar duo on this planet! There have been many attempts to imitate their talent,
but these guys define musical and instrumental virtuosity. No one else comes close to these guys and this record is full of some amazing/wonderful transcriptions and arrangements only possible with their gifts
and artistry. "Jardim Abandonado" is a legendary recording! Their arrangement and interpretation of
Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" is magical and effective. They also offer novel and exciting renditions
of works by Debussy, Jobim, and Sergio's original. Also, a brilliant new work by Clarice Assad featured
on the CD as well. This is ANOTHER favorite in my collection of Assad CD's. A must have recording from
this Brazilian superduo! Thanks for making such wonderful music!

Once again the Assad Duo display their mastery over a wide range of stylistic music from the rhythms of their homeland Brazil to the jazz influence of the US with visits to Europe's impressionism and the modality of the mid-east. The recording is full of pure beauty and exhilaration. This is a must own CD - not just for guitarists!

I find this music very uplifting when I need to have my spirits uplifted. A soak in the tub glass of wine and Jazz Around Midnight is a little slice of heaven to take away the days troubles and wash them down the drain. Soo any time I need a lift I just pop in Jazz Around Midnight.