"Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim" is a 1967 album by Frank Sinatra, featuring the Brazilian composer, arranger, guitarist and pianist Antônio Carlos Jobim, with arrangements and orchestration by Claus Ogerman. 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 reconvened to record a follow up in 1969, with arrangements by Eumir Deodato. Though the recordings were released briefly on 8 track tape, as 'Sinatra-Jobim', the regular album release was suspended. ...show more

"Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim" is a 1967 album by Frank Sinatra, featuring the Brazilian composer, arranger, guitarist and pianist Antônio Carlos Jobim, with arrangements and orchestration by Claus Ogerman. 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 reconvened to record a follow up in 1969, with arrangements by Eumir Deodato. Though the recordings were released briefly on 8 track tape, as 'Sinatra-Jobim', the regular album release was suspended.

The recordings did not appear on album until 1971, when issued as side 1 of 'Sinatra & Company', with Sinatra solo recordings occupying Side 2. Three songs recorded at the 'Sinatra-Jobim' session - "Bonita", "Sabiá", and "Off Key (Desafinado)" - were omitted from 'Sinatra & Company' : "Sabiá" was released in the USA in 1970 as the flip side of the 45 rpm single "Lady Day" and appeared with "Bonita" on the 1977 compilation 'Portrait of Sinatra' and the 1979 compilation, 'Sinatra-Jobim Sessions' ; "Off Key (Desafinado)" was unreleased until its inclusion on the box set 'The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings' in 1995. In 2010 the Concord Records label issued ''Sinatra-Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings', a collection of all the tracks recorded in the 1967 and 1969 sessions by the artists.. ...show less