Jobim unknown

Antonio Goncalves Filho, from the newspaper "O Estado de São Paulo
The soundtracks composed by maestro Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994) for film, theater and television add two dozen titles, of which at least 80% are out of print. A real scandal when comparing treatment outside Brazil dedicated to other composers, such as Italian Ennio Morricone, who has composed more than 500 scores for film, of which 170 of them still in print by the Italian label GDM, created in 1970 - not considering the other labels.

Few know, for instance, the only track composed by Jobim for an American film, The Adventurers (The World of Adventurers, 1970), of which two themes - Children's Game and Dax & Amparo - would later be transformed, respectively, in the popular Raining Look at Roseira and Mary, and Sue Ann, derived theme Bed of Flowers for Sue Ann. The American label Varèse Sarabande now decided to resurrect the trail, but not the original. Just launched in the U.S. a new edition of the music of 'trashy' The Adventurers arrangements with American conductor Quincy Jones and Ray Brown Orchestra, conducted by himself.

Joined 42 years ago, around the time of the original soundtrack, which had arrangements by Eumir Deodato, the disc Quincy Jones is a raucous big band for a rereading of the smooth jazz compositions by Jobim. In other words, a stylish subversion of a tricky track, originally released by Paramount, co-producer of the film with the Avco Embassy. The original featured 13 tracks, four more than the record of Quincy Jones, who uses the name of Jobim to sell a counterfeit product: the track six (Coming and Going), for example, is an endless orgasm of actress Sally Kellerman (popular at the time because of the erotic Major Hot Lips in Mash) that does seem like a nun Jane Birkin on Je T'aime Moi Non Plus. There is a theme composed by Jobim, Ray Brown but probably inspired by the sexual acrobatics Yugoslav actor Bekim Fehmiu (1936-2010) in the film, directed by Lewis Gilbert and English elected as one of the ten worst in the history of cinema.

Tom Jobim was at the height of its popularity in the U.S. (with Frank Sinatra had recorded two years earlier) when he agreed to sign the song overproduction, based on a popular novel by Harold Robbins. The film was abjured even by his director, who consider it a monumental disaster (although photography of Claude Renoir, the son of the painter, and an all star cast, Candice Bergen Olivia de Havilland, past Ernest Borgnine and Charles Aznavour) . Loosely based on the life of the Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa and diplomat, The Worlds of Adventurers, ambientando a fictional country in South America, Corteguay, is a typical American product that reduces all countries of the continent banana republics, where dictators follow the same rhythm of sexual adventures of the protagonist, a gigolo willing to avenge his father, killed by the regime of a despot.

The movie does not deserve a beautiful trail that is. Paulo Jobim, the composer's son and director of the Institute Tom Jobim, suspects that the father ignored the script (Lewis Gilbert and Michael Hastings). Regrets that Paramount has not reissued the original soundtrack on CD and reveals he bought for years for the institute's version of Quincy Jones, in an auction on the internet. The fact is that the composer did not repeat the experience in the U.S., where he recorded alongside maestros forgotten today, as vibraphonist Gary McFarland (1933-1971), who died poisoned. In your hard Soft Samba (1964), reissued on CD by a Japanese label in an edition for collectors, Jobim plays guitar to Beatles songs alongside Kenny Burrell, and movie themes from other authors (The Americanization of Emily, The Love Goddess and Mondo Cane).

The record companies over foreign resemble the Brazilian Jobim. You can find in stores Importers - albeit with some difficulty - to track the maestro Rio signed to Black Orpheus (Black Orpheus), by Marcel Camus. His ground zero in film, the disc just came out in 1959 on the initiative of jazz pianist and producer Dutchman Cees Schrama, being reissued by Verve 40 years later. The Brazilian record labels are not interested even in today relaunching classic tracks such as the films The Girl from Ipanema (Universal, 1967), Gabriela (RCA, 1983) and O Tempo eo Vento (Som Livre, 2003). If anything, keep in catalog records that entered Jobim songs written for films - as the award winning Chronicle Murdered House (four of them on the CD Matita Pere) and The Adventurers (two songs on the CD Stone Flower).

"Many of his tracks have not even be launched," says Paulo Jobim, who worked as an arranger with his father in some of them (The Girl's Side, Sleeping Brasa, Fonte da Saudade). One of the most beautiful, Port of Boxes (1962), debut film of Paulo Cesar Saraceni (screenplay with him and Lúcio Cardoso), brings two masterpieces of maestro (Ultimate Spring Waltz and the Port of Boxes), which will never be heard in its original form. "The master tape is lost, but the series Reviving managed to rescue the two aforementioned songs from the movie itself, although the sound comes mixed with dialogues of the film."

Jobim, who has grown accustomed to the arrangements of Claus Ogerman and German Eumir Deodato when he began recording in the U.S., do not sign the orchestration of many of the tracks that made ​​(the Gabriela was made ​​by Oscar Castro Neves, the Girl from Ipanema, by Luiz Eca, and Sagarana had as arranger Dori Caymmi). The (mis) The Adventurers of international experience should have marked the conductor, who preferred to bet on Brazilian directors friends such as Paulo Cesar Saraceni and Pedro de Moraes (son of Vinicius), who directed the short time in Mar 1971. "It's a movie in the middle Abstract past Arraial Cape with underwater imagery," defines Paulo Jobim, noting that its main theme is Matita Pere.

The listeners were not so lucky with other tracks international productions signed by Jobim. Their songs were used in Erotique, movie episodes directed by Ana Maria Magalhaes, Clara Law and Lizzie Borden. For the Danish documentarian Jorgen Leth he composed the score for his film Man at Play. There is a whole unknown Jobim ready to be rediscovered by record labels. It would not be a bad idea to gather all your tracks box.