What's the story on this Elis & Tom DVD-Audio?

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If the first track on this 1963 Jorge Ben album sounds familiar, Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 got radio play with it on their first hit album, lead vocal by (future Mrs. Herb Alpert) Lani Hall.

You don't need to be a bossa nova expert to love Jorge Ben's seductive, suave, and oft-covered "Mas, Que Nada!," the opening track of his 1963 debut. The album also features early signature tunes like the giddy "Tim Dom Dom," with its vocal imitations of a guitar, and the gentle samba "Chove Chuva." The breezy, modernist big-band arrangements here offset the intimate tone of his singing and strumming. Jorge Ben got funkier and more eclectic in years to come, but he never sounded sweeter than this.




Ten years before the Eliane album, Jobim sang his song Agua de Beber with Astrud Gilberto on her debut album.
Wrote about half the tunes & played guitar on the rest.

With Antonio Carlos Jobim on guitar and the arrangements by Marty Paich, it was released via Verve Records in 1965. It peaked at number 41 on the Billboard 200 chart.
In 2017, NPR placed it at number 73 on the "150 Greatest Albums Made by Women" list.



 
Then of course, the Sinatra sessions:


This "complete" collection gathers the landmark 1967 album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, the selections from the 1969 sessions for the never-released SinatraJobim album (only a rare 8-track) that saw partial release on 1971’s Sinatra & Company, plus three outtakes. Sinatra never sounded more warm and sensitive (especially on “How Insensitive”!). Jobim’s gentle acoustic guitar work combines with bossa nova arrangements from Claus Ogerman and his orchestra (on the first 10 tracks). Eumir Deodato arranged and Morris Stoloff conducted the orchestra for a different sound and feel on the final 10 tracks.


 
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I was on the fence about this DVD-A as the acclaim of album is based mostly on the strength "Como nossos pais” and the historical place it holds in helping propel Brazilian music away from bossa nova and toward a new direction with MPB.

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The rest of the material here simply doesn’t rise to the same level as CNP. Mores the pity, but nevertheless - you still have the amazing voice that was Elis Regina. For me, the chance to hear Elis Regina in high res surround sound offsets the trade offs found here.
 
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