Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Infobox Album |
Name = Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Type = Album
Artist = Frank Sinatra


Released = 1967
Recorded = January 30, 1967 –
February 1, 1967,
Hollywood
Genre = Classic pop
Bossa Nova
Length = 28:05
Label = Reprise Records
Producer = Sonny Burke
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gcftxqqgld6e link]
Last album = "That's Life"
(1966)
This album = "Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim"
(1967)
Next album = "The World We Knew"
(1967)

"Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim" is a 1967 album (see 1967 in music) by Frank Sinatra, featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim.

The tracks were arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman and his orchestra.

Along with Jobim's original compositions, the album features three standards from the 'Great American Songbook', ("Change Partners", "I Concentrate on You", and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads") arranged in the bossa nova style.

Sinatra and Jobim followed up this album with "Sinatra & Company" (1971).

At the Grammy Awards of 1968 "Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Track listing

#"The Girl from Ipanema" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinícius de Moraes) – 3:00
#"Dindi" (Ray Gilbert, Jobim, Aloysio de Oliveria) – 3:25
#"Change Partners" (Irving Berlin) – 2:40
#"Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)" (Jobim, Gene Lees) – 2:45
#"Meditation (Meditação)" (Jobim, Gimbel, Newton Mendonca) – 2:51
#"If You Never Come to Me (Inútil Paisagem)" (Jobim, Gilbert, de Oliveira) – 2:10
#"How Insensitive (Insensatez)" (Jobim, Gimbel, de Moraes) – 3:15
#"I Concentrate on You" (Cole Porter) – 2:32
#"Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (Robert C. Wright, George Forrest, Alexander Borodin) – 2:32
#"Once I Loved (O Amor em Paz)" (Jobim, Gilbert, de Moraes) – 2:37

Personnel

* Frank Sinatra - vocals
* Antonio Carlos Jobim - piano, guitar and backing vocals
* Claus Ogerman - arranger, conductor