Wave
Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Community Score: 10.00

When Creed Taylor left Verve/MGM for his own label under the auspices of A&M, he quickly signed Antonio Carlos Jobim and they picked up right where they left off with this stunningly seductive record, possibly Jobim's best. Jobim contributes his sparely rhythmic acoustic guitar, simple melodic piano style, a guest turn at the harpsichord, and... Read More

Entre el Amor Y Yo
Artist: Vicente Fernández
Community Score: 8.33
Brazilian Collection
Artist: Ney Matogrosso
Brazilian Collection
Artist: Fafa De Belem
João (Eu Sambo Mesmo)
Artist: João Gilberto
Coleccion Mi Historia
Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Estatua de Marfil
Artist: Vicente Fernández
Nascimento
Artist: Milton Nascimento

This is Milton Nascimento's most deeply Brazilian-sounding album in a long time, also the most downcast, but none the worse in its emotional impact. He adopts the battering, heavy percussion rhythms of the folia boxes (popularized by OLODUM) on several tracks, which frame the main portion of the album and give it enormous vitality. There isn't a... Read More

Antonio Brasilero
Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Community Score: 10.00

Not only did Jobim stay active until the end of his life, he showed virtually no signs of creative burnout, as this, his last album, wondrously displays. Surrounded again by family and friends, he delivered a brace of 13 songs and compositions (plus two songs by the veteran songwriter Dorival Caymmi), many of them relatively new, most as... Read More

The Man from Ipanema
Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Community Score: 8.00

Issued nearly a year after Jobim's death, this three-CD set is ground zero, the place to start if you don't have any Jobim in your collection or for anyone who wants a single package of his multifaceted art. The set encompasses not only Jobim's own sporadic work for Verve from 1963 until his final 1994 Carnegie Hall concert and the two A&M... Read More

Elis & Tom
Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Community Score: 9.50

Elis Regina, a cool, feminine Brazilian singer who died tragically of cocaine/alcohol poisoning at age 36, made this often deeply affecting album with Jobim in Los Angeles for the Brazilian market only; it was not released in the U.S. until 1989. While there is plenty of bossa nova here, the arrangements at times reflect the more cinematic, more... Read More

Todos Los Romances
Artist: Luis Miguel
Community Score: 10.00