A masterful and authentic Australian premiere Jobim tribute from start to finish.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival
Sunday 14 June

In the late nineteen fifties when Miles Davis, John Coltrane and others were creating some of the twentieth century’s jazz highpoints (A Kind of Blue, Giant Steps), Brazilian maestro Antonion Carlos “Tom” Jobim was confounding music critics with his distinctively Latin Bossa Nova compositions that were so catchy and sexy that they rapidly became part of the jazz lexicon to the point where popular artists like Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan recorded his work. Yes, The Girl from Ipanema was a smash and might be the epitome of “easy listening”, but it was only one of hundreds of compositions that the prolific Jobim created and in Brazil, there are many songs that are as equally familiar as the ubiquitous ‘girl’.

Collaborators and Jobim devotees, Jones, Rezende, De Vries and Panorama Brazil (musical director and drummer Alister Kerr, flautist Amber Hendry, trombonist Alistair Parsons, pianist Matthew Bowden, and bassist Jorge Ablequerque) presented an Australian premiere Jobim tribute that was masterful, authentic and passionate from start to finish. De Vries and band began with a medley of lesser known tunes featuring de Vries’ virtuosic fingerwork before Rezende took centre...