list some of your favorite versions of Jobim classics

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marginally related (nice brazilian covers), i saw portastatic last night play 2nd on a bill of 3; however, we (the crowd) wouldn't let him leave the stage even after he packed his guitar away. so he got his guitar out and a few requests were thrown out and i requested "baby" (the famous caetano veloso song) that he did on an ep of brazilian covers from 3-4 years ago. much to my (and others) suprise he immediately launced straight into it, delivered in perfect portuguese... a really gorgeous version of it.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 12 December 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

"Baby"??? Is that the same song as done by Os Mutantes???
That is a gem!

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 12 December 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

yes

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 12 December 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

Robert Wyatt's version of "Insensatez"

So odd...someone just made me a mixdisc with this on it.

I always thought Jobim would best be covered incongruously....like by Motley Crue or something. (Actually, I've always harboured a desire to hear Motley Crue play "Mas Que Nada" by Sergio Mendez & Brazil '66. Guess I never will).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 December 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link

"How Insensitive" by Sting with Jobim himself is smooth and aloof. Ron Carter's touch is excellent on the bass.

― bahtology, Friday, 12 December 2003 23:37 (twenty years ago) link

Shatner's version is both clumsy and aloof.

― jazz odysseus, Saturday, 13 December 2003 04:22 (twenty years ago) link

Best to start with Joao Gilberto's '58-'61 recordings, about 40 percent of which were written or co-written by Jobim. Those records, made I'm pretty sure for World Pacific Records, are where bossa nova (and MPB) begins.

The album Jobim made with Elis Regina in '74 is a classic, but I haven't heard anything bad by Jobim himself.

Art Garfunkel's version of "Waters of March" is surprisingly good.

― dylan (dylan), Saturday, 13 December 2003 06:04 (twenty years ago) link

I think someone -- possibly me, but probably not -- should make a mix of nothing but versions of "Waters of March."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 13 December 2003 06:25 (twenty years ago) link

That would be awesome, actually! Cibo Matto also has a version, IIRC.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

(Oh, and yeah, Sting's "How Insensitive" is surprisingly okay.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:37 (twenty years ago) link

I don't believe you. I can imagine it very clearly, and it's not okay.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

That would be awesome, actually!

It really would, wouldn't it? I could listen to that song over and over for 80 minutes. Who couldn't?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 13 December 2003 10:44 (twenty years ago) link

AMG shows versions by Gal Costa, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Susannah McCorkle, Sergio Mendes, Cassandra Wilson, Oleta Adams, Basia, David Byrne, Rosemary Clooney, Art Garfunkel, Zoot Sims...

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 13 December 2003 11:20 (twenty years ago) link

(and Cibo Matto and Mark Murphy, who've already been mentioned on the thread)

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 13 December 2003 11:21 (twenty years ago) link

eleven years pass...

god the reprise collection with sinatra is just so glorious, works so well as an album

― dutch_justice, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 05:50 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMQNMRJn-Eo

― velko, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 07:20 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxRLVek_ioM

― velko, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 07:27 (eight years ago) link

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