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CONGRATULATE DONALD TRUMP FOR FIGURING PROMINENTLY IN DAVOS 2018 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
'America First policy is not America alone'
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President Donald Trump has told global finance leaders he will always put the US first when it comes to trade, but "that does not mean America alone".
"The US is open for business," he said in his inaugural address to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday.
But he continued to attack "predatory" trade practices, warning partners that the US would not tolerate unfair trade.
Mr Trump's election campaign centred on America First, aiming to protect local manufacturers from foreign competition.
This policy appeared to contradict the Davos conference's goal of promoting globalisation and co-operation.
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Mr Trump lauded the economic achievements of his first year in office, including cutting corporation tax and lowering the unemployment rate, and said the US was more attractive than ever to foreign investment.
"I'm here to deliver a simple message - there has never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest and to grow in the United States. America is open for business and we are competitive once again," he said.
Taking credit for the strong economy in the US, he urged foreign investors to "bring your money, your jobs, your businesses to America".
As he was speaking, latest figures for US economic growth were released, showing a slowdown in growth from 3.2% to 2.6% in the final quarter of last year. This meant annual growth for 2017 was 2.3%, up from 1.5% in 2016 but below the president's 3% target.
A more nuanced approach
By Kamal Ahmed, BBC economics editor
"America First, not America alone." It was the key line of the speech, and a message echoed by other leading members of the White House power pack here.
This is all about trade and the US approach.
The fear was that America under Mr Trump would throw up a series of trade barriers, increasing protectionism at a time when most government leaders at Davos - Narendra Modi of India, Justin Trudeau of Canada and Emmanuel Macron of France - were preaching the gospel of globalisation.
But today we heard a more nuanced manifesto. America, Mr Trump said, did not want a trade war, it wanted fair trade.
Which may come as a surprise to countries like South Korea, smarting this week following the imposition of tariffs on US imports of solar panels and washing machines.
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The US president demanded a reformed international trade system that was "fair and reciprocal" and accused unidentified countries of unfair practices, including "massive intellectual property theft" and providing state aid to industry.
Mr Trump also said he preferred bilateral fair trade agreements with other countries, including those signed up to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from which he has withdrawn. He said he would consider negotiating with TPP states collectively, if it was in America's interest.
He later tweeted that his speech had been well received.
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Heading back from a very exciting two days in Davos, Switzerland. Speech on America’s economic revival was well received. Many of the people I met will be investing in the U.S.A.! #MAGA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2018
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But some attendees booed when he attacked the media and repeated accusations of them reporting "fake news" in a question and answer session after his address.
"As a businessman I was always treated really well by the press… and it wasn't until I became a politician that I realised how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the press can be," he said.
The BBC's Katie Hope, who attended the speech, says anticipation was high but the audience's response was rather muted with some expecting a more conciliatory tone.
Image copyright EPA Image caption Donald Trump's speech was eagerly anticipated
Despite this, Mr Trump has had an overwhelmingly positive reception, with cheers on his arrival on Thursday in the main Congress Centre.
In a meeting with UK Prime Minister Theresa May the same day, he said he expected "a tremendous increase" in trade between the US and Britain in the coming years.
He has also said he is prepared to apologise for retweeting posts from a British far-right group last November, a move that sparked a Twitter row with Mrs May.
In an interview Mr Trump told ITV's Piers Morgan: "If you are telling me they're horrible people, horrible, racist people, I would certainly apologise if you'd like me to do that."
President Trump's speech comes days after the US announced new tariffs of up to 50% on imported washing machines and solar panels, prompting an outcry from China and South Korea - the primary targets of the measure.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, also in Davos, has warned of "more to come" on trade tariffs.
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Francis
Albert
Sinatra
and
Antonio
Carlos
Jobim
Expanded
50th Anniversary
Edition
CD
&
Digital
Commemorative
Edition
Adds
Two
Bonus
Tracks;
Remastered
Album
Also
Available
on
180-gram
Vinyl
LP
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Exclusive,
Limited
Edition
Blue
Vinyl
LP
By Harvey Kubernik
Frank Sinatra’s acclaimed 1967 album with Brazilian music legend Antonio Carlos Jobim, Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim is now expanded for its 50th Anniversary Edition. In April, it was released on compact disc and digital formats via Universal Music Enterprises.
A remastered original album was issued as well on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl LP and in a limited blue vinyl edition, available exclusively from the Sinatra Shop and UDiscover Music.
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim brought together two maestros from divergent musical worlds in a serene sigh of sun-dappled bossa-nova.
In evening studio sessions at Hollywood’s Western Recorders between January 30 and February 1, 1967, Sinatra breathed new life into the album’s 10 songs, accompanied vocally on four by Jobim, who also played guitar on the album.
Frank Sinatra recorded with Antonio Carlos Jobim at Western Recorders in Hollywood, CA between Jan 30 and Feb 1, 1967. Courtesy Frank Sinatra Enterprises.
The album’s tracks include seven Jobim originals and three American Songbook classics, delicately arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman with a studio orchestra.
Ogerman’s studio credits were Wes Montgomery, Kai Winding, and Cal Tjader as a staff arranger for the Verve label on many Creed Taylor productions 1963-1967. He also arranged and conducted the Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra in 1966.
Earlier in the sixties, Ogerman arranged a number of pop hit singles, including Solomon Burke’s “Cry to Me,” and conducted the orchestra for Quincy Jones’ production of Leslie Gore’s “It’s My Party.”
Sonny Burke produced the heralded Sinatra and Jobim album.
Burke was a big band arranger who worked with Charlie Spivak and Jimmy Dorsey bands, later writing tunes with Peggy Lee for Disney’s Lady and the Tramp, and the song “Black Coffee,” with Paul Francis Webster.
He also served as bandleader for vocalists Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme, eventually becoming musical director of Reprise Records.
“I Concentrate on You” penned by Cole Porter for the 1940 movie Broadway Melody of 1940, was a popular turntable hit on L.A. radio station KMPC.
“I haven’t sung so soft since I had the laryngitis,” joked Sinatra during their first evening together in the studio, easing into the hushed swing of the sessions.
Immediately after Sinatra concluded his February 1st date with Jobim, Frank and his daughter Nancy, with session musicians later to be known as the Wrecking Crew, including drummer Hal Blaine and guitarist Al Casey, with producers Lee Hazelwood and Jimmy Bowen, and an arrangement from Billy Strange, cut the Carson Parks-penned single “Somethin’ Stupid.”
Their duet reached number one in the Billboard charts and appeared on the Frank Sinatra Reprise LP The World We Knew.
Frank Sinatra in the studio, 1967. Courtesy Frank Sinatra Enterprises
In her book, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, Nancy Sinatra wrote about recording “Somethin’ Stupid” with her father.
“At the end of the session, the A Team in the studio stepped aside, and Dad let me bring in my B Team to record a duet novelty song called ‘Somethin’ Stupid.’ On the first take, Dad got silly, sounding his S’s like Daffy Duck for fun, so we had to do a second take. Mo Ostin, the president of Reprise, bet him two dollars it would bomb. He lost his money. It went to number one, selling several million copies.”
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim ascended Billboard’s albums chart in April 1967, peaking at No.19 and remaining on the chart for 28 weeks.
“At Reprise, the label he started in 1960, Sinatra was able to collaborate with such musical giants as Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Antonio Carlos Jobim. The pairing of Sinatra and Jobim in 1967 is one of the best collaborations during Frank’s ‘Reprise’ era,” mentioned Charles Pignone, producer-archivist for the Sinatra Family, and author of The Sinatra Treasures.
“Sinatra’s singing is sublime. Jobim’s playing is perfection. Claus Ogerman’s arrangements are exquisite. The orchestra is outstanding. The album, to this day, is simply superb!”
Frank Sinatra recorded the duet, Somethin’ Stupid’ with his daughter, Nancy. Guy Webster
I also really dug the television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim that was taped at NBC studios in Burbank and was broadcast in November of 1967.
Sinatra was a Grammy winner in 1966 and 1967 but in 1968 at the 10th Annual Grammy Awards his album with Jobim was nominated for Album of the Year but lost out to the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The 50th Anniversary Edition’s CD and digital configurations implement two bonus tracks: A medley of “Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars”/“Change Partners”/“I Concentrate on You”/“The Girl from Ipanema” from A Man And His Music + Ella + Jobim, and a previously unreleased studio session of “The Girl from Ipanema” from January 31, 1967.
“The 1967 Sinatra/Jobim album is beautiful, all 27 minutes of it, and I’m glad it’s being reissued for a wider audience,” offered KEBF-FM deejay, James Cushing, who hosts the program Jazz Classics in Morro Bay, California.
“The quiet that Jobim’s music contains rubs against Sinatra’s vivid bel-canto extraversion in a memorable way and it’s great to hear the two men singing together, as well. I’m OK with Claus Ogerman’s orchestrations, but honestly, a chamber jazz group of guitar-bass-piano would have done just as well if not better.”
Antonio Carlos Jobim Photo by Guy Webster.
The Sinatra and Jobim teaming, at Western Recorders on Sunset Blvd. was just a handful of months after a 1966 encounter Sinatra had with Rolling Stones’ manager and record producer Andrew Loog Oldham and Keith Richards, courtesy of Joe Smith of Warner/Reprise Records who extended an invitation to the duo who were finishing up their Aftermath album at nearby RCA Studios.
Frank was very cordial to Andrew and Keith in their two-hour visit, and asked them if they knew his U.K. concert promoter, the talent agent and music impresario Harold Davidson, who also promoted the likes of Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and helped launch the Dave Clark Five and the Rolling Stones in England.
“I’d always regarded Sam Cooke and Elvis Presley, and later Bob Dylan as the real self-producing artists of the era,” Andrew told me in a 2004 interview.
“Sinatra and Bing Crosby had to be the guv’ners — Keith Richards and I got to watch Mr. Sinatra record, that was an education in form and producing thyself. It’s an art that Julio Iglesias and Lionel Ritchie mastered in the 80’s — to know thyself and how to dress yourself in sound, song and polish every word so that it belongs. It places you above anything that can be deemed the A&R domain. You have that uncanny period of time where you are at one with the audience.
“The Sinatra/Jobim collaboration was a masterpiece in casting and execution,” says Andrew Loog Oldham. Guy Webster
“I saw Sinatra live in Paris in 1976 when my wife Esther and I were living there,” Oldham reminisced in a 2017 lunch conversation. “First time I had seen a singer as instrument in the band. He mixed himself into the band and sang his way out of that mix.
“Frank Sinatra had more lives than David Bowie.
“The Sinatra/Jobim collaboration was a masterpiece in casting and execution. North and South America — Hoboken in the balmy tropics. A forever moment!”
“When a journalist went to interview pianist Keith Jarrett a few years back, he was struck by the presence of Sinatra’s Capitol Years box set occupying a place of pride in the jazz icon’s home office,” observed author and keyboardist, Kenneth Kubernik. “Jarrett’s trio had been featuring ‘I’m A Fool to Want You’ and ‘In the Wee Small Hours’ in their set.
“It’s easy to overlook the status Sinatra enjoyed among the jazz cognoscenti; his larger-than-life persona often drowned out the nuanced, instinctual command he brought to his interpretive art, the hallmark of a great musician with big ears.
“Saxophonist Wayne Shorter heard something too. Sharing the front line with Miles Davis in, arguably, the most vital jazz quintet of the sixties, Shorter wouldn’t let his ultra-hip street cred distract him from embracing Sinatra’s anodyne pop collaboration with bossa nova’s premier voice, Tom Jobim. ‘Dindi’ would soon find itself provocatively reborn on Shorter’s 1969 Blue Note album, Super Nova, the Brazilian rhythms of batucada and samba framing an emotionally wrought vocal reading far removed from the Chairman›s Scotch and water take.”
In the very early-fifties my parents saw Sinatra sing for his supper a number of times at small joints, restaurants and steak houses in Palm Springs when the entertainer was really down and out. It was a period when Frank’s contract was not renewed at Columbia Records. He had lost his voice, agent and career.
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
(50th Anniversary Edition)
CD / Digital
1. The Girl from Ipanema
2. Dindi
3. Change Partners
4. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
5. Meditation
6. If You Never Come to Me
7. How Insensitive
8. I Concentrate on You
9. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
10. Once I Loved
BONUS TRACKS
11. Sinatra-Jobim Medley: Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars/Change Partners/I Concentrate on You/
The Girl from Ipanema (from A Man And His Music + Ella + Jobim)
12. The Girl from Ipanema
(previously unreleased studio session from January 31, 1967)
180g Vinyl LP / Limited Edition
Blue Vinyl LP
SIDE 1
1. The Girl from Ipanema
2. Dindi
3. Change Partners
4. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
5. Meditation
SIDE 2
1. If You Never Come to Me
2. How Insensitive
3. I Concentrate on You
4. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
5. Once I Loved
Then his remarkable artistic and commercial renaissance, with an assist from then-wife Ava Gardner, who helped persuade Columbia Pictures studio head Harry Cohen in 1952 to cast Sinatra for the low paying acting job over higher priced actor Eli Wallach in From Hell to Eternity. It won Sinatra a Best Supporting Oscar in 1953, after he inked a new and basic entry level recording contract from President Alan Livingston at Capitol Records.
As a youth in the early-sixties I went with my family a few times to see Frank perform in Las Vegas Nevada at the Sands Hotel and Casino. I was mostly locked up in their hotel room for the engagement but caught some of the action.
Comedian Buddy Hackett, his opening act, was funny and naughty.
I later sat with my mother Hilda in Television City at a CBS sound stage in West Hollywood and witnessed some Sinatra television specials where we had earlier watched 1963-1965 tapings of The Danny Kaye Show. Danny portrayed a character named Jerome. We also in the audience for The Judy Garland Show. Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland sang an amazing duet of “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
My mother and I caught Frank Sinatra again in 1978 at the Universal Amphitheater in Universal City when I was west coast director of A&R for MCA Records located on the Universal lot. We were seated with Liza Minelli. I told her Freddie Mercury of Queen really loved her act and saw her London Palladium engagement. I had just interviewed Freddie for Melody Maker. My mom in 1939 saw Liza’s mother Judy Garland in Chicago when she opened her show with “Zing! Went the Strings in My Heart.”
Author Richard Havers in his 2004 book Sinatra interviewed my mother about Frank and his musical and cultural impact in the forties.
“I lived in Chicago and was a big fan of Frank. I had seen him at WMAQ in Chicago when he did a radio show with Tommy Dorsey in 1940 and I was determined to go to New York and see him at the Paramount Theater in December of 1943. My cousin, who lived in Brooklyn, met me at the train station and we went straight to the Paramount. Frank was amazing: I was not a screamer. I just sat there paralyzed. We stayed and watched every performance until they threw us out at around 10:30 or 11:00. I left Sunday and back home to Chicago Monday morning. Looking back, I think what was important was that he was there when we needed someone.”
In the early eighties, my parents were invited to a party at Chasen’s restaurant in West Hollywood arranged by Las Vegas hotel owner Steve Wynn for Golden Nugget Hotel stock holders. Frank and his wife Barbara were present and politely visited the booths and tables.
An excited Hilda Ria Kubernik finally met Francis Albert Sinatra. My mother told Frank she was at one of the 1943 Paramount Theater shows in New York, as a giddy girl who just graduated high school in Chicago. She enthusiastically posed for a photo with him, and Frank immediately turned to my father Marshall, and suggested to him, “I think your broad needs a drink.”
In 1960 Sinatra founded his own imprint, Reprise, with Warner Bros. Records.
In 1966, Frank was back on top of the pop and rock charts with “That’s Life,” courtesy of legendary music man Russ Regan who worked at Loma Records, a division of Reprise.
“I was general manager at Loma and I gave ‘That’s Life’ to Frank Sinatra to cut,” explained Regan to me in my 2014 book, Turn Up The Radio! Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972.
“Kelly Gordon, a songwriter, who co-wrote it, first gave the tune to me. He played a little piano. Kelly brought me the demo of ‘That’s Life,’ which had already been recorded. It was just a hit by O.C. Smith in Houston, Texas. Kelly wanted to record it, but I told him it was a Frank Sinatra hit. [He said,] ‘Be my guest.’
“So, I went around my office—it was next door to Mo Ostin. ‘Mo, let me play you this song. I think it’s a hit for Frank Sinatra.’ Mo, God bless him, puts it on, and says, ‘Russ, this is a smash for Frank Sinatra.’ He [says to] his secretary and assistant, ‘Donna. Get me ABC Messenger Service.’
“He sent the dub over to Frank Sinatra. It went to his home after he called Frank. He had the direct line. Two days later, Mo Ostin calls me on the intercom. ‘You sitting down? Frank loves the song. He’s gonna do it.’ Frank was my idol.
Initially, Jimmy Bowen was going to produce it, but he got Ernie Freeman because he felt there was an R & B kind of feel.
“So, we all went to United Western. Frank did it in two takes. Never met him, [but] I watch it go down with the vocal contractor B.J. Baker and her background singers. [Gwenn Johnson and Jackie Ward]. I walked [out] onto Sunset Boulevard. ‘Thank you, God. This is a smash!’
“Jimmy Bowen acknowledged me. The record got released thirty days later. It took off like a rocket ship. By October ’66, it was a Top 4 record on the pop charts and number one on the R & B charts. That could only happen because it was done in L.A.
“Then Frank flew me and Mo to Las Vegas, where he was playing the Sands Hotel. Mo and I took his wife, Mia Farrow, to dinner at the Flamingo to see Trini Lopez. He was also on Reprise, and she was a Trini Lopez fan. Then we came to the midnight show of Frank at the Sands, and we’re sitting ringside. Right? And he belted out ‘That’s Life,’ and I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Incredible show. It was his anthem before ‘My Way’ replaced it. That Sonny Burke produced. “After the show, we were all invited to have a 2:00 am supper at the Chinese restaurant at the Sands Hotel. Sinatra is sitting next to me. I’m calling him ‘Mr. Sinatra.’ He asks, ‘Can I call you Russ?’ ‘Sure!’ Everyone at the table knew I found the song. “MO and I flew back home at 10:00 am the next day. Two weeks go by after this incredible night, and I walk into Martoni’s Italian restaurant on Cahuenga to hang out with the record company guys. And there is Frank Sinatra, sitting there with Jilly Rizzo and his guys at a booth. I walk up to him [and say,] ‘Hi, Mr. Sinatra.’ [He says,] ‘Get lost, kid!’ So I start walking way—my heart was broken. [Then I hear,] ‘Get back here, Russ! I know who you are.’ Frank Sinatra got me good.”
Terry O’Neill is one of the world’s most accomplished and collected photographers whose work hangs in national galleries and private collections worldwide. For more than 50 years his camera has chronicled the frontline of fame, in particular the emerging rock stars and icons of the 60s. O’Neill photographed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones when they were still struggling young bands seeking a recording contract in London’s clubs and pubs.
O’Neill worked closely too with Frank Sinatra over 30 years, being granted access to the chairman back stage and in private.
O’Neill Interview
In 2002, I interviewed O’Neill for Treats! magazine after he published Sinatra: Frank & Friendly (Evans Mitchell Books).
HK: You photographed Frank Sinatra over the decades.
TO: When I first met Frank, he was making a film Tony Rome. And I knew Ava Gardner very well. And told her, ‘I’ve got the chance to go across and photograph your ex-husband.’ And she said, ‘Oh, I’ll write you a letter.’
“Now I don’t know what she ever put in the letter of introduction, but I walked on the set of this film, handed him the letter, and he said. ‘Right, Bloke, you’re with me.’ Frank was always in love with Ava. Always.
“Ava opened the door to me and I never looked back. I covered his concerts, rehearsals and films. Frank never queried anything I did. I could walk in whenever I liked and take photos of whatever I liked. And then I was for the next 30 years off and on. I mean, I could go anywhere with him. Funny enough, in the beginning, I did not realize quite how big he was. Do you know what I mean? I did not realize the sort of size of him and the impact that he has on the world. I loved his singing but I did not realize how great he was.
“Frank just had everything. I mean, you knew you were definitely in the presence of a great man. Irrelevant of what anyone ever says about him. He really was a great man and had a magnetic personality. Frank had this air about him; he really did light up a room when he walked in. When doing photos with him he was so comfortable he totally ignored me. It’s great because he just makes like you’re not there. And I went anywhere with him. He actually was a good photographer himself. He was an incredible man and he knew, you know, just to ignore you, so you could feel more comfortable and you could work better with him. You didn’t feel you were being intrusive.
“I had access with Frank, and I worked very hard. I didn’t sit around and talk with him all the time. I learned and realized with Sinatra as our working relationship went on that I can’t be one of the people sitting down having a drink with him. Because that is not what I want to be. I want to be the photographer. I think that he, during that period, wondered why I wouldn’t sort of be more friendly and sort of still have all the respect for him. Because I think respect is the key thing in my work. And it shows in the way I look at people in my photographs
“When I assembled the Frank book, first of all it brought back lots of memories seeing all the pictures. It was just my tribute to him. Because I’ve always wanted to give something back to him. And that was my way of doing it. I promised him I’d do this book one day and I never really got around to it. I did get everything all together now and sort of repaid him by doing the book.
HK: Your book shows us the process, knowledge, and empathy Sinatra had for his audience and the understanding of the songbook on record and in performance.
TO: Frank’s love for the music and the musical history was always very apparent to me. He cited the musicians. When he walked out on stage he just had a presence and he just hypnotized the whole audience. I mean, I never saw him not give 100 per cent. And he cared a lot about the music. He was brilliant at rehearsals. You think he walked out there and ‘Ring-A-Ding-Ding’ and just does it. But he listens to the audience when the comedian is on, the warm up guy, and he gages the mood of the audience, and he was a great conductor as well. He was a very versatile guy.
“Yes, unlike the Beatles later, and the Stones, he didn’t write the songs he sang but it was like the songs were written for him. But he was a wonderful man and always gave absolute full credit to every songwriter, always. And arrangers.
Throughout his six-decade career, Frank Sinatra performed on more than 1,400 recordings and was awarded 31 gold, nine platinum, three double platinum, and one triple platinum album by the Recording Industry Association of America. Sinatra demonstrated a remarkable ability to appeal to every generation and continues to do so; his artistry still influences many of today’s music superstars. The Oscar® winner also appeared in more than 60 films and produced eight motion pictures.
Sinatra was awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Recording Academy, The Screen Actors Guild and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as the Kennedy Center Honors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
For more information about Frank Sinatra, visit sinatra.com.
Harvey Kubernik has been a music journalist for over 44 years and is the author of 10 books, including Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows, and Neil Young, Heart of Gold. In April 2017, Sterling published Kubernik’s 1967 A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love.
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Friday, 07/07/2017, at 20:34, by Mauro Ferreira
Album that which satisfied Sinatra more than Jobim wins 50-year edition
Ronaldo Bôscoli (1928 - 1994), the Rio de Janeiro composer of Bossa Nova classics, said that he would only respect the generation of Brazilian rock. In one of the most scathing tirades of the sarcastic/sharp tongue of the 1980s when the English group The Rolling Stones invited the Rio group Red Bar to record an album in the same way that Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) invited Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927 - 1994) to record an album. Bôscoli referred to the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (Reprise, 1967), an album in which the greatest American singer of the 20th century gave voice to English versions of some of the most famous titles of the sovereign songbook of the composer from Rio. Released in March 1967, the album won a 50-year commemorative edition, produced by Charles Pignone with two bonus tracks.
Available in the United States phonographic market since April of this year 2017, the edition arrives in Brazil this July, in partnership with the Universal Music label with Sinatra Enterprises. The two additional tracks are the medley that reunites Quiet nights of quiet stars (Antonio Carlos Jobim, 1960 in the English version of Gene Lees, 1965), Change partners (Irving Berlin, 1938), I concentrate on you , 1940) and The girl from Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, 1962, in English version of Norman Gimbel, 1965) - musical number extracted from the television special A Man and his Music + Ella + Jobim, which appeared in November of that year of 1967 by NBC - and an alternative take of The girl from Ipanema, captured in the studio session held on January 31, 1967.
Strictly speaking, in contrast to the very Brazilian think of a third world complex, the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim did a greater good to Sinatra than to Jobim himself. The composer from Rio was already consecrated in the United States - and, by extension, throughout the world pop universe - since 1962, the year Bossa Nova burst in the USA.
Five years after Jobim's American acclaim, whose first album was recorded in 1963 for the United States market, Sinatra only ran after the (artistic) injury by inviting the composer to share an album with the singer. Anyway, the album is deservedly considered a classic. Much due to the arrangements of the German conductor Claus Ogerman (1930 - 2016), fundamental for the song of Jobim to gain frames suitable for the refinement of the composer's work.
(Image credit: album cover for Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim)
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Marcelo Mastroiani
7 months ago
Oba..we finally can read this ...
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Ricardo Corrêa
7 months ago
this record is perfect !!!
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Artur Torres
7 months ago
"Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim" is Frank's apology for his latest albums like "Strangers In The Night" and especially "That's Life", both released in 1966. "That's Life" is way below standard Sinatra to burn disc. It is a weak repertoire, the arrangements of Ernie Freeman that evoke Nelson Riddle very empty, for me is worth more for the title track. In fact, Sinatra wanted Nelson Riddle to be the arranger of this album with Tom, but this one suggested to Claus due to the chemistry of both in the works of Jobim.
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Sexta-feira, 07/07/2017, às 20:34, por Mauro Ferreira
Álbum que serviu mais a Sinatra do que a Jobim ganha edição de 50 anos
Em uma das tiradas mais mordazes da língua ferina (O que é língua ferina: Língua que profere palavras que fere alguém) de Ronaldo Bôscoli (1928 – 1994), o compositor carioca de clássicos da Bossa Nova disse que somente respeitaria a geração do rock brasileiro da década de 1980 quando o grupo inglês The Rolling Stones convidasse o grupo carioca Barão Vermelho para gravar um álbum da mesma forma que Frank Sinatra (1915 – 1998) convidara Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927 – 1994) para gravar um disco. Bôscoli se referia ao álbum Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (Reprise, 1967), disco em que o maior cantor norte-americano do século XX deu voz a versões em inglês de alguns dos mais famosos títulos do soberano cancioneiro do compositor carioca. Lançado em março de 1967, o álbum ganha edição comemorativa de 50 anos, produzida por Charles Pignone com duas faixas-bônus.
Disponível no mercado fonográfico dos Estados Unidos desde abril deste ano de 2017, a edição chega ao Brasil neste mês de julho, em parceria da gravadora Universal Music com a empresa Sinatra Enterprises. As duas faixas adicionais são o medley que junta Quiet nights of quiet stars (Corcovado) (Antonio Carlos Jobim, 1960, em versão inglês de Gene Lees, 1965), Change partners (Irving Berlin, 1938), I concentrate on you (Cole Porter, 1940) e The girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) (Antonio Carlos Jobim e Vinicius de Moraes, 1962, em versão em inglês de Norman Gimbel, 1965) – número musical extraído do especial de televisão A Man and his Music + Ella + Jobim, exibido em novembro daquele ano de 1967 pela rede NBC – e um take alternativo de The girl from Ipanema, captado na sessão de estúdio realizada em 31 de janeiro de 1967.
A rigor, ao contrário do pensa muito brasileiro com complexo de terceiro mundo, o álbum Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim fez um bem maior a Sinatra do que ao próprio Jobim. O compositor carioca já estava consagrado nos Estados Unidos – e, por extensão, em todo o universo pop mundial – desde 1962, ano do estouro da Bossa Nova nos EUA.
Cinco anos depois da aclamação norte-americana de Jobim, cujo primeiro álbum foi gravado em 1963 para o mercado dos Estados Unidos, Sinatra somente correu atrás do prejuízo (artístico) ao convidar o compositor para dividir um disco com o cantor. De todo modo, o álbum é merecidamente considerado um clássico. Muito por conta dos arranjos do maestro alemão Claus Ogerman (1930 – 2016), fundamental para que o cancioneiro de Jobim ganhasse molduras adequadas ao refinamento da obra do compositor.
(Crédito da imagem: capa do álbum Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim)
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Marcelo Mastroiani
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Oba..até que enfim!essa dá para ler...
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esse disco é perfeito!!!
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Artur Torres
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"Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim" é o pedido de desculpas de Frank para os seus últimos discos como "Strangers In The Night" e principalmente "That's Life", ambos lançados em 1966. o "That's Life" é muito aquém do padrão Sinatra de se gravar disco. É um repertório fraco, os arranjos de Ernie Freeman que evocam Nelson Riddle de forma muito vazia, pra mim vale mais pela faixa título. Aliás, Sinatra quis que Nelson Riddle fosse o arranjador desse álbum com Tom, mas este sugeriu o Claus devido a química de ambos nos trabalhos de Jobim.
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Francis
Albert
Sinatra
and
Antonio
Carlos
Jobim
Expanded
50th Anniversary
Edition
CD
&
Digital
Commemorative
Edition
Adds
Two
Bonus
Tracks;
Remastered
Album
Also
Available
on
180-gram
Vinyl
LP
&
Exclusive,
Limited
Edition
Blue
Vinyl
LP
By Harvey Kubernik
Frank
Sinatra’s acclaimed 1967 album with Brazilian music legend Antonio
Carlos Jobim, Francis
Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim is
now expanded for its 50th Anniversary
Edition. In April, it was released on compact disc and digital
formats via Universal Music Enterprises.
A
remastered original album was issued as well on heavyweight 180-gram
vinyl LP and in a limited blue vinyl edition, available exclusively
from the Sinatra Shop and UDiscover Music.
Francis
Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim brought together
two maestros from divergent musical worlds in a serene sigh of
sun-dappled bossa-nova.
In evening
studio sessions at Hollywood’s Western Recorders between January
30 and February 1, 1967, Sinatra breathed new life into the album’s
10 songs, accompanied vocally on four by Jobim, who also played
guitar on the album.
Frank
Sinatra recorded with Antonio Carlos Jobim at Western Recorders in
Hollywood, CA between Jan 30 and Feb 1, 1967. Courtesy Frank
Sinatra Enterprises.
The
album’s tracks include seven Jobim originals and three American
Songbook classics, delicately arranged and conducted by Claus
Ogerman with a studio orchestra.
Ogerman’s
studio credits were Wes Montgomery, Kai Winding, and Cal Tjader as a
staff arranger for the Verve label on many Creed Taylor productions
1963-1967. He also arranged and conducted the Bill Evans Trio with
Symphony Orchestra in 1966.
Earlier in
the sixties, Ogerman arranged a number of pop hit singles, including
Solomon Burke’s “Cry to Me,” and conducted the orchestra for
Quincy Jones’ production of Leslie Gore’s “It’s My Party.”
Sonny
Burke produced the heralded Sinatra and Jobim album.
Burke was
a big band arranger who worked with Charlie Spivak and Jimmy Dorsey
bands, later writing tunes with Peggy Lee for Disney’s Lady and
the Tramp, and the song “Black Coffee,” with Paul Francis
Webster.
He also
served as bandleader for vocalists Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Ella
Fitzgerald and Mel Torme, eventually becoming musical director of
Reprise Records.
“I
Concentrate on You” penned by Cole Porter for the 1940 movie
Broadway Melody of 1940, was a popular turntable hit on L.A.
radio station KMPC.
“I
haven’t sung so soft since I had the laryngitis,” joked Sinatra
during their first evening together in the studio, easing into the
hushed swing of the sessions.
Immediately
after Sinatra concluded his February 1st date with Jobim, Frank and
his daughter Nancy, with session musicians later to be known as the
Wrecking Crew, including drummer Hal Blaine and guitarist Al Casey,
with producers Lee Hazelwood and Jimmy Bowen, and an arrangement
from Billy Strange, cut the Carson Parks-penned single “Somethin’
Stupid.”
Their duet
reached number one in the Billboard charts and appeared on the Frank
Sinatra Reprise LP The World We Knew.
Frank
Sinatra in the studio, 1967. Courtesy Frank Sinatra Enterprises
In her
book, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, Nancy Sinatra wrote
about recording “Somethin’ Stupid” with her father.
“At the
end of the session, the A Team in the studio stepped aside, and Dad
let me bring in my B Team to record a duet novelty song called
‘Somethin’ Stupid.’ On the first take, Dad got silly, sounding
his S’s like Daffy Duck for fun, so we had to do a second take. Mo
Ostin, the president of Reprise, bet him two dollars it would bomb.
He lost his money. It went to number one, selling several million
copies.”
Francis
Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim ascended Billboard’s
albums chart in April 1967, peaking at No.19 and remaining on the
chart for 28 weeks.
“At
Reprise, the label he started in 1960, Sinatra was able to
collaborate with such musical giants as Count Basie, Duke Ellington
and Antonio Carlos Jobim. The pairing of Sinatra and Jobim in 1967
is one of the best collaborations during Frank’s ‘Reprise’
era,” mentioned Charles Pignone, producer-archivist for the
Sinatra Family, and author of The Sinatra Treasures.
“Sinatra’s
singing is sublime. Jobim’s playing is perfection. Claus Ogerman’s
arrangements are exquisite. The orchestra is outstanding. The
album, to this day, is simply superb!”
Frank
Sinatra recorded the duet, Somethin’ Stupid’ with his daughter,
Nancy. Guy Webster
I also
really dug the television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His
Music + Ella + Jobim that was taped at NBC studios in Burbank
and was broadcast in November of 1967.
Sinatra
was a Grammy winner in 1966 and 1967 but in 1968 at the 10th Annual
Grammy Awards his album with Jobim was nominated for Album of the
Year but lost out to the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band.
The
50th Anniversary Edition’s CD and digital configurations
implement two bonus tracks: A medley of “Quiet Nights of Quiet
Stars”/“Change Partners”/“I Concentrate on You”/“The
Girl from Ipanema” from A Man And His Music + Ella +
Jobim, and a previously unreleased studio session of “The Girl
from Ipanema” from January 31, 1967.
“The
1967 Sinatra/Jobim album is beautiful, all 27 minutes of it, and I’m
glad it’s being reissued for a wider audience,” offered KEBF-FM
deejay, James Cushing, who hosts the program Jazz Classics in Morro
Bay, California.
“The
quiet that Jobim’s music contains rubs against Sinatra’s vivid
bel-canto extraversion in a memorable way and it’s great to hear
the two men singing together, as well. I’m OK with Claus Ogerman’s
orchestrations, but honestly, a chamber jazz group of
guitar-bass-piano would have done just as well if not better.”
Antonio
Carlos Jobim Photo by Guy Webster.
The
Sinatra and Jobim teaming, at Western Recorders on Sunset Blvd. was
just a handful of months after a 1966 encounter Sinatra had with
Rolling Stones’ manager and record producer Andrew Loog Oldham and
Keith Richards, courtesy of Joe Smith of Warner/Reprise Records who
extended an invitation to the duo who were finishing up their
Aftermath album at nearby RCA Studios.
Frank was
very cordial to Andrew and Keith in their two-hour visit, and asked
them if they knew his U.K. concert promoter, the talent agent and
music impresario Harold Davidson, who also promoted the likes of
Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and helped
launch the Dave Clark Five and the Rolling Stones in England.
“I’d
always regarded Sam Cooke and Elvis Presley, and later Bob Dylan as
the real self-producing artists of the era,” Andrew told me in a
2004 interview.
“Sinatra
and Bing Crosby had to be the guv’ners — Keith Richards and I
got to watch Mr. Sinatra record, that was an education in form and
producing thyself. It’s an art that Julio Iglesias and Lionel
Ritchie mastered in the 80’s — to know thyself and how to dress
yourself in sound, song and polish every word so that it belongs. It
places you above anything that can be deemed the A&R domain. You
have that uncanny period of time where you are at one with the
audience.
“The
Sinatra/Jobim collaboration was a masterpiece in casting and
execution,” says Andrew Loog Oldham. Guy Webster
“I saw
Sinatra live in Paris in 1976 when my wife Esther and I were living
there,” Oldham reminisced in a 2017 lunch conversation. “First
time I had seen a singer as instrument in the band. He mixed himself
into the band and sang his way out of that mix.
“Frank
Sinatra had more lives than David Bowie.
“The
Sinatra/Jobim collaboration was a masterpiece in casting and
execution. North and South America — Hoboken in the balmy tropics.
A forever moment!”
“When a
journalist went to interview pianist Keith Jarrett a few years back,
he was struck by the presence of Sinatra’s Capitol
Years box set occupying a place of pride in the jazz icon’s
home office,” observed author and keyboardist, Kenneth Kubernik.
“Jarrett’s trio had been featuring ‘I’m A Fool to Want You’
and ‘In the Wee Small Hours’ in their set.
“It’s
easy to overlook the status Sinatra enjoyed among the jazz
cognoscenti; his larger-than-life persona often drowned out the
nuanced, instinctual command he brought to his interpretive art, the
hallmark of a great musician with big ears.
“Saxophonist
Wayne Shorter heard something too. Sharing the front line with Miles
Davis in, arguably, the most vital jazz quintet of the
sixties, Shorter wouldn’t let his ultra-hip street cred
distract him from embracing Sinatra’s anodyne pop collaboration
with bossa nova’s premier voice, Tom Jobim. ‘Dindi’ would soon
find itself provocatively reborn on Shorter’s 1969 Blue Note
album, Super Nova, the Brazilian rhythms of batucada and
samba framing an emotionally wrought vocal reading far removed from
the Chairman›s Scotch and water take.”
In the
very early-fifties my parents saw Sinatra sing for his supper a
number of times at small joints, restaurants and steak houses in
Palm Springs when the entertainer was really down and out. It was a
period when Frank’s contract was not renewed at Columbia Records.
He had lost his voice, agent and career.
Francis
Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
(50th Anniversary Edition)
(50th Anniversary Edition)
CD /
Digital
1. The
Girl from Ipanema
2. Dindi
3. Change
Partners
4. Quiet
Nights of Quiet Stars
5.
Meditation
6. If You
Never Come to Me
7. How
Insensitive
8. I
Concentrate on You
9.
Baubles, Bangles and Beads
10. Once I
Loved
BONUS
TRACKS
11.
Sinatra-Jobim Medley: Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars/Change Partners/I
Concentrate on You/
The Girl from Ipanema (from A Man And His Music + Ella + Jobim)
The Girl from Ipanema (from A Man And His Music + Ella + Jobim)
12. The
Girl from Ipanema
(previously unreleased studio session from January 31, 1967)
(previously unreleased studio session from January 31, 1967)
180g Vinyl
LP / Limited Edition
Blue Vinyl
LP
SIDE 1
1. The
Girl from Ipanema
2. Dindi
3. Change
Partners
4. Quiet
Nights of Quiet Stars
5.
Meditation
SIDE 2
1. If You
Never Come to Me
2. How
Insensitive
3. I
Concentrate on You
4.
Baubles, Bangles and Beads
5. Once I
Loved
Then his
remarkable artistic and commercial renaissance, with an assist from
then-wife Ava Gardner, who helped persuade Columbia Pictures studio
head Harry Cohen in 1952 to cast Sinatra for the low paying acting
job over higher priced actor Eli Wallach in From Hell to
Eternity. It won Sinatra a Best Supporting Oscar in 1953, after
he inked a new and basic entry level recording contract from
President Alan Livingston at Capitol Records.
As a youth
in the early-sixties I went with my family a few times to see Frank
perform in Las Vegas Nevada at the Sands Hotel and Casino. I was
mostly locked up in their hotel room for the engagement but caught
some of the action.
Comedian
Buddy Hackett, his opening act, was funny and naughty.
I later
sat with my mother Hilda in Television City at a CBS sound stage in
West Hollywood and witnessed some Sinatra television specials where
we had earlier watched 1963-1965 tapings of The Danny Kaye Show.
Danny portrayed a character named Jerome. We also in the audience
for The Judy Garland Show. Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland
sang an amazing duet of “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
My mother
and I caught Frank Sinatra again in 1978 at the Universal
Amphitheater in Universal City when I was west coast director of A&R
for MCA Records located on the Universal lot. We were seated with
Liza Minelli. I told her Freddie Mercury of Queen really loved her
act and saw her London Palladium engagement. I had just interviewed
Freddie for Melody Maker. My mom in 1939 saw Liza’s mother
Judy Garland in Chicago when she opened her show with “Zing! Went
the Strings in My Heart.”
Author
Richard Havers in his 2004 book Sinatra interviewed my mother about
Frank and his musical and cultural impact in the forties.
“I lived
in Chicago and was a big fan of Frank. I had seen him at WMAQ in
Chicago when he did a radio show with Tommy Dorsey in 1940 and I was
determined to go to New York and see him at the Paramount Theater in
December of 1943. My cousin, who lived in Brooklyn, met me at the
train station and we went straight to the Paramount. Frank was
amazing: I was not a screamer. I just sat there paralyzed. We stayed
and watched every performance until they threw us out at around
10:30 or 11:00. I left Sunday and back home to Chicago Monday
morning. Looking back, I think what was important was that he was
there when we needed someone.”
In the
early eighties, my parents were invited to a party at Chasen’s
restaurant in West Hollywood arranged by Las Vegas hotel owner Steve
Wynn for Golden Nugget Hotel stock holders. Frank and his wife
Barbara were present and politely visited the booths and tables.
An excited
Hilda Ria Kubernik finally met Francis Albert Sinatra. My mother
told Frank she was at one of the 1943 Paramount Theater shows in New
York, as a giddy girl who just graduated high school in Chicago. She
enthusiastically posed for a photo with him, and Frank immediately
turned to my father Marshall, and suggested to him, “I think your
broad needs a drink.”
In 1960
Sinatra founded his own imprint, Reprise, with Warner Bros. Records.
In 1966,
Frank was back on top of the pop and rock charts with “That’s
Life,” courtesy of legendary music man Russ Regan who worked at
Loma Records, a division of Reprise.
“I was
general manager at Loma and I gave ‘That’s Life’ to Frank
Sinatra to cut,” explained Regan to me in my 2014 book, Turn Up
The Radio! Rock, Pop, and Roll in Los Angeles 1956-1972.
“Kelly
Gordon, a songwriter, who co-wrote it, first gave the tune to me. He
played a little piano. Kelly brought me the demo of ‘That’s
Life,’ which had already been recorded. It was just a hit by O.C.
Smith in Houston, Texas. Kelly wanted to record it, but I told him
it was a Frank Sinatra hit. [He said,] ‘Be my guest.’
“So, I
went around my office—it was next door to Mo Ostin. ‘Mo, let me
play you this song. I think it’s a hit for Frank Sinatra.’ Mo,
God bless him, puts it on, and says, ‘Russ, this is a smash for
Frank Sinatra.’ He [says to] his secretary and assistant, ‘Donna.
Get me ABC Messenger Service.’
“He sent
the dub over to Frank Sinatra. It went to his home after he called
Frank. He had the direct line. Two days later, Mo Ostin calls me on
the intercom. ‘You sitting down? Frank loves the song. He’s
gonna do it.’ Frank was my idol.
Initially,
Jimmy Bowen was going to produce it, but he got Ernie Freeman
because he felt there was an R & B kind of feel.
“So, we
all went to United Western. Frank did it in two takes. Never met
him, [but] I watch it go down with the vocal contractor B.J. Baker
and her background singers. [Gwenn Johnson and Jackie Ward]. I
walked [out] onto Sunset Boulevard. ‘Thank you, God. This is a
smash!’
“Jimmy
Bowen acknowledged me. The record got released thirty days later. It
took off like a rocket ship. By October ’66, it was a Top 4 record
on the pop charts and number one on the R & B charts. That could
only happen because it was done in L.A.
“Then
Frank flew me and Mo to Las Vegas, where he was playing the Sands
Hotel. Mo and I took his wife, Mia Farrow, to dinner at the Flamingo
to see Trini Lopez. He was also on Reprise, and she was a Trini
Lopez fan. Then we came to the midnight show of Frank at the Sands,
and we’re sitting ringside. Right? And he belted out ‘That’s
Life,’ and I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Incredible
show. It was his anthem before ‘My Way’ replaced it. That Sonny
Burke produced. “After the show, we were all invited to have a
2:00 am supper at the Chinese restaurant at the Sands Hotel. Sinatra
is sitting next to me. I’m calling him ‘Mr. Sinatra.’ He asks,
‘Can I call you Russ?’ ‘Sure!’ Everyone at the table knew I
found the song. “MO and I flew back home at 10:00 am the next day.
Two weeks go by after this incredible night, and I walk into
Martoni’s Italian restaurant on Cahuenga to hang out with the
record company guys. And there is Frank Sinatra, sitting there with
Jilly Rizzo and his guys at a booth. I walk up to him [and say,]
‘Hi, Mr. Sinatra.’ [He says,] ‘Get lost, kid!’ So I start
walking way—my heart was broken. [Then I hear,] ‘Get back here,
Russ! I know who you are.’ Frank Sinatra got me good.”
Terry
O’Neill is one of the world’s most accomplished and collected
photographers whose work hangs in national galleries and private
collections worldwide. For more than 50 years his camera has
chronicled the frontline of fame, in particular the emerging rock
stars and icons of the 60s. O’Neill photographed the Beatles and
the Rolling Stones when they were still struggling young bands
seeking a recording contract in London’s clubs and pubs.
O’Neill
worked closely too with Frank Sinatra over 30 years, being granted
access to the chairman back stage and in private.
O’Neill
Interview
In 2002, I
interviewed O’Neill for Treats! magazine after he published
Sinatra: Frank & Friendly (Evans Mitchell Books).
HK: You
photographed Frank Sinatra over the decades.
TO: When I
first met Frank, he was making a film Tony Rome. And I knew
Ava Gardner very well. And told her, ‘I’ve got the chance to go
across and photograph your ex-husband.’ And she said, ‘Oh, I’ll
write you a letter.’
“Now I
don’t know what she ever put in the letter of introduction, but I
walked on the set of this film, handed him the letter, and he said.
‘Right, Bloke, you’re with me.’ Frank was always in love with
Ava. Always.
“Ava
opened the door to me and I never looked back. I covered his
concerts, rehearsals and films. Frank never queried anything I did.
I could walk in whenever I liked and take photos of whatever I
liked. And then I was for the next 30 years off and on. I mean, I
could go anywhere with him. Funny enough, in the beginning, I did
not realize quite how big he was. Do you know what I mean? I did not
realize the sort of size of him and the impact that he has on the
world. I loved his singing but I did not realize how great he was.
“Frank
just had everything. I mean, you knew you were definitely in the
presence of a great man. Irrelevant of what anyone ever says about
him. He really was a great man and had a magnetic personality. Frank
had this air about him; he really did light up a room when he walked
in. When doing photos with him he was so comfortable he totally
ignored me. It’s great because he just makes like you’re not
there. And I went anywhere with him. He actually was a good
photographer himself. He was an incredible man and he knew, you
know, just to ignore you, so you could feel more comfortable and you
could work better with him. You didn’t feel you were being
intrusive.
“I had
access with Frank, and I worked very hard. I didn’t sit around and
talk with him all the time. I learned and realized with Sinatra as
our working relationship went on that I can’t be one of the people
sitting down having a drink with him. Because that is not what I
want to be. I want to be the photographer. I think that he, during
that period, wondered why I wouldn’t sort of be more friendly and
sort of still have all the respect for him. Because I think respect
is the key thing in my work. And it shows in the way I look at
people in my photographs
“When I
assembled the Frank book, first of all it brought back lots of
memories seeing all the pictures. It was just my tribute to him.
Because I’ve always wanted to give something back to him. And that
was my way of doing it. I promised him I’d do this book one day
and I never really got around to it. I did get everything all
together now and sort of repaid him by doing the book.
HK:
Your book shows us the process, knowledge, and empathy Sinatra had
for his audience and the understanding of the songbook on record and
in performance.
TO:
Frank’s love for the music and the musical history was always very
apparent to me. He cited the musicians. When he walked out on stage
he just had a presence and he just hypnotized the whole audience. I
mean, I never saw him not give 100 per cent. And he cared a lot
about the music. He was brilliant at rehearsals. You think he walked
out there and ‘Ring-A-Ding-Ding’ and just does it. But he
listens to the audience when the comedian is on, the warm up guy,
and he gages the mood of the audience, and he was a great conductor
as well. He was a very versatile guy.
“Yes,
unlike the Beatles later, and the Stones, he didn’t write the
songs he sang but it was like the songs were written for him. But he
was a wonderful man and always gave absolute full credit to every
songwriter, always. And arrangers.
Throughout
his six-decade career, Frank Sinatra performed on more than 1,400
recordings and was awarded 31 gold, nine platinum, three double
platinum, and one triple platinum album by the Recording Industry
Association of America. Sinatra demonstrated a remarkable ability to
appeal to every generation and continues to do so; his artistry
still influences many of today’s music superstars. The Oscar®
winner also appeared in more than 60 films and produced eight motion
pictures.
Sinatra
was awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Recording Academy,
The Screen Actors Guild and the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as the Kennedy Center
Honors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold
Medal.
For
more information about Frank Sinatra, visit sinatra.com.
Harvey
Kubernik has been a music journalist for over 44 years and is the
author of 10 books, including Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows, and
Neil Young, Heart of Gold. In April 2017, Sterling published
Kubernik’s 1967 A Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of
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Friday, 07/07/2017, at 20:34, by Mauro Ferreira
Album that which satisfied Sinatra more than Jobim wins 50-year edition
Ronaldo Bôscoli (1928 - 1994), the Rio de Janeiro composer of Bossa Nova classics, said that he would only respect the generation of Brazilian rock. In one of the most scathing tirades of the sarcastic/sharp tongue of the 1980s when the English group The Rolling Stones invited the Rio group Red Bar to record an album in the same way that Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) invited Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927 - 1994) to record an album. Bôscoli referred to the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (Reprise, 1967), an album in which the greatest American singer of the 20th century gave voice to English versions of some of the most famous titles of the sovereign songbook of the composer from Rio. Released in March 1967, the album won a 50-year commemorative edition, produced by Charles Pignone with two bonus tracks.
Available in the United States phonographic market since April of this year 2017, the edition arrives in Brazil this July, in partnership with the Universal Music label with Sinatra Enterprises. The two additional tracks are the medley that reunites Quiet nights of quiet stars (Antonio Carlos Jobim, 1960 in the English version of Gene Lees, 1965), Change partners (Irving Berlin, 1938), I concentrate on you , 1940) and The girl from Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, 1962, in English version of Norman Gimbel, 1965) - musical number extracted from the television special A Man and his Music + Ella + Jobim, which appeared in November of that year of 1967 by NBC - and an alternative take of The girl from Ipanema, captured in the studio session held on January 31, 1967.
Strictly speaking, in contrast to the very Brazilian think of a third world complex, the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim did a greater good to Sinatra than to Jobim himself. The composer from Rio was already consecrated in the United States - and, by extension, throughout the world pop universe - since 1962, the year Bossa Nova burst in the USA.
Five years after Jobim's American acclaim, whose first album was recorded in 1963 for the United States market, Sinatra only ran after the (artistic) injury by inviting the composer to share an album with the singer. Anyway, the album is deservedly considered a classic. Much due to the arrangements of the German conductor Claus Ogerman (1930 - 2016), fundamental for the song of Jobim to gain frames suitable for the refinement of the composer's work.
(Image credit: album cover for Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim)
G1
Mauro Ferreira
Friday, 07/07/2017, at 20:34, by Mauro Ferreira
Album that which satisfied Sinatra more than Jobim wins 50-year edition
Ronaldo Bôscoli (1928 - 1994), the Rio de Janeiro composer of Bossa Nova classics, said that he would only respect the generation of Brazilian rock. In one of the most scathing tirades of the sarcastic/sharp tongue of the 1980s when the English group The Rolling Stones invited the Rio group Red Bar to record an album in the same way that Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) invited Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927 - 1994) to record an album. Bôscoli referred to the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (Reprise, 1967), an album in which the greatest American singer of the 20th century gave voice to English versions of some of the most famous titles of the sovereign songbook of the composer from Rio. Released in March 1967, the album won a 50-year commemorative edition, produced by Charles Pignone with two bonus tracks.
Available in the United States phonographic market since April of this year 2017, the edition arrives in Brazil this July, in partnership with the Universal Music label with Sinatra Enterprises. The two additional tracks are the medley that reunites Quiet nights of quiet stars (Antonio Carlos Jobim, 1960 in the English version of Gene Lees, 1965), Change partners (Irving Berlin, 1938), I concentrate on you , 1940) and The girl from Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, 1962, in English version of Norman Gimbel, 1965) - musical number extracted from the television special A Man and his Music + Ella + Jobim, which appeared in November of that year of 1967 by NBC - and an alternative take of The girl from Ipanema, captured in the studio session held on January 31, 1967.
Strictly speaking, in contrast to the very Brazilian think of a third world complex, the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim did a greater good to Sinatra than to Jobim himself. The composer from Rio was already consecrated in the United States - and, by extension, throughout the world pop universe - since 1962, the year Bossa Nova burst in the USA.
Five years after Jobim's American acclaim, whose first album was recorded in 1963 for the United States market, Sinatra only ran after the (artistic) injury by inviting the composer to share an album with the singer. Anyway, the album is deservedly considered a classic. Much due to the arrangements of the German conductor Claus Ogerman (1930 - 2016), fundamental for the song of Jobim to gain frames suitable for the refinement of the composer's work.
(Image credit: album cover for Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim)
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Marcelo Mastroiani
7 months ago
Oba..we finally can read this ...
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Ricardo Corrêa
7 months ago
this record is perfect !!!
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Artur Torres
7 months ago
"Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim" is Frank's apology for his latest albums like "Strangers In The Night" and especially "That's Life", both released in 1966. "That's Life" is way below standard Sinatra to burn disc. It is a weak repertoire, the arrangements of Ernie Freeman that evoke Nelson Riddle very empty, for me is worth more for the title track. In fact, Sinatra wanted Nelson Riddle to be the arranger of this album with Tom, but this one suggested to Claus due to the chemistry of both in the works of Jobim.
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Sexta-feira,
07/07/2017, às 20:34, por Mauro
Ferreira
Álbum que serviu mais a Sinatra do que a Jobim ganha edição de 50 anos
Em uma das tiradas mais mordazes da língua ferina (O que é língua ferina: Língua que profere palavras que fere alguém) de Ronaldo Bôscoli (1928 – 1994), o compositor carioca de clássicos da Bossa Nova disse que somente respeitaria a geração do rock brasileiro da década de 1980 quando o grupo inglês The Rolling Stones convidasse o grupo carioca Barão Vermelho para gravar um álbum da mesma forma que Frank Sinatra (1915 – 1998) convidara Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927 – 1994) para gravar um disco. Bôscoli se referia ao álbum Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (Reprise, 1967), disco em que o maior cantor norte-americano do século XX deu voz a versões em inglês de alguns dos mais famosos títulos do soberano cancioneiro do compositor carioca. Lançado em março de 1967, o álbum ganha edição comemorativa de 50 anos, produzida por Charles Pignone com duas faixas-bônus.
Disponível no mercado fonográfico dos Estados Unidos desde abril deste ano de 2017, a edição chega ao Brasil neste mês de julho, em parceria da gravadora Universal Music com a empresa Sinatra Enterprises. As duas faixas adicionais são o medley que junta Quiet nights of quiet stars (Corcovado) (Antonio Carlos Jobim, 1960, em versão inglês de Gene Lees, 1965), Change partners (Irving Berlin, 1938), I concentrate on you (Cole Porter, 1940) e The girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) (Antonio Carlos Jobim e Vinicius de Moraes, 1962, em versão em inglês de Norman Gimbel, 1965) – número musical extraído do especial de televisão A Man and his Music + Ella + Jobim, exibido em novembro daquele ano de 1967 pela rede NBC – e um take alternativo de The girl from Ipanema, captado na sessão de estúdio realizada em 31 de janeiro de 1967.
A rigor, ao contrário do pensa muito brasileiro com complexo de terceiro mundo, o álbum Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim fez um bem maior a Sinatra do que ao próprio Jobim. O compositor carioca já estava consagrado nos Estados Unidos – e, por extensão, em todo o universo pop mundial – desde 1962, ano do estouro da Bossa Nova nos EUA.
Cinco anos depois da aclamação norte-americana de Jobim, cujo primeiro álbum foi gravado em 1963 para o mercado dos Estados Unidos, Sinatra somente correu atrás do prejuízo (artístico) ao convidar o compositor para dividir um disco com o cantor. De todo modo, o álbum é merecidamente considerado um clássico. Muito por conta dos arranjos do maestro alemão Claus Ogerman (1930 – 2016), fundamental para que o cancioneiro de Jobim ganhasse molduras adequadas ao refinamento da obra do compositor.
(Crédito da imagem: capa do álbum Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim)
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Marcelo Mastroianihá 7 meses
Oba..até que enfim!essa dá para ler...
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Ricardo Corrêahá 7 meses
esse disco é perfeito!!!
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Artur Torreshá 7 meses
"Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim" é o pedido de desculpas de Frank para os seus últimos discos como "Strangers In The Night" e principalmente "That's Life", ambos lançados em 1966. o "That's Life" é muito aquém do padrão Sinatra de se gravar disco. É um repertório fraco, os arranjos de Ernie Freeman que evocam Nelson Riddle de forma muito vazia, pra mim vale mais pela faixa título. Aliás, Sinatra quis que Nelson Riddle fosse o arranjador desse álbum com Tom, mas este sugeriu o Claus devido a química de ambos nos trabalhos de Jobim.
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