Elis & Tom (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Latin Music  »  Bossa Nova
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: January 23, 1990
• Label: Verve (USA)
• UPC: 042282441829
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106664573
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #4146 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #21 in Latin Music (See Top 100 Latin Music Bestsellers)
• #2 in Bossa Nova (See Top 100 Bossa Nova Bestsellers)

Personnel: Antonio Carlos Jobim (vocals, piano, acoustic guitar); Elis Regina (vocals); Cesar Camargo Mariano (piano, electric piano); Helio Delmiro (acoustic & electric guitars); Oscar Castro Nieves (acoustic guitar); Luizao Maia (bass); Paulo Braga (drums).

Recorded at MGM Studios, Los Angeles, California between February 22 and March 9, 1974. Includes liner notes by Neil Tesser.

A classic 1974 recording, ELIS AND TOM brings together the brilliant Brazilian vocalist Elis Regina and the father of bossa nova, Antonio Carlos Jobim. Although Elis was a guest singer on some of Jobim's Creed Taylor-produced material, this was the first and only time the pair did a full-fledged duet album. Like the Taylor albums, WAVE and TIDE, ELIS AND TOM features a full orchestra. Very much unlike the Taylor albums, the orchestral coloring is kept to a bare, sensible minimum. Regina, who many feel was the finest female Brazilian jazz singer ever, works best in a sparse environment, and Jobim wisely tailors his arrangements to her strengths. The results are a sublime song cycle of material both old and new combining to create an overwhelming mood of melancholy. This is not saudade, the happy-sad feeling endemic to most bossa nova, but a darker and even more emotionally complex mood. The beauty of Regina's singing and Jobim's songs is lapidary, but some might find the record's tone a bit much to take in a single sitting.

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