Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with "The Girl from Ipanema." This relaxed, cool, sensuous music blended jazz and samba. After recording an album of songs by his friend Jobim, Frank Sinatra is reported to have said, "I haven't sung so quietly since I had laryngitis." Naturally, "The Girl from Ipanema" and Frank Sinatra are featured in this musical collage of countless seamlessly edited excerpts of concert footage that cover decades of events all over the world: from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon, Paris, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Montreal, New York and back to Rio.
Antônio Carlos Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
Gal Costa
as Self (archive footage)
Sarah Vaughan
as Self (archive footage)
Ella Fitzgerald
as Self (archive footage)
Caetano Veloso
as Self (archive footage)
Judy Garland
as Self (archive footage)
Chico Buarque
as Self (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.
as Self (archive footage)
Oscar Peterson
as Self (archive footage)
Diana Krall
as Self (archive footage)
Lio
as Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
as Self (archive footage)
