Antonio
Carlos Jobim--Non-album Items
Books and Miscellaneous Items
"As a singer, Sylvia dedicated her short
career
to one man: Antonio Carlos Jobim. Of the little more than a
hundred
songs that she recorded during her ten years in the studio,
at least
fifty were by Jobim, written either alone or in
partnerships. For
her, he was always the supreme composer of his generation.
The
admiration was reciprocal because many of those songs, hot
off the
piano, were given directly to her. And to many of those
which she
didn't release, it was Sylvia who gave the definitive
version,
establishing the exact mood in which they should be sung."
From the text by Ruy Castro written especially for this
edition.
[Above and below: these
photos were taken directly in Rio in 2005 and feature Tom
Jobim's
full name on the markers.]