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Old 02-05-2010, 07:05 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Coincidence is spooky, even when you realize it's just coincidence. It riles something up in the deep lizardy portions of our brains.

Jobim definitely deserves mention in a thread about smoky jazzy barroom music. My favorite of his is "Águas de Março", or "Waters of March".

Here's Elis Regina doing the original Portugese version:

And the HIGHLY crushworthy Jane Monheit doing it live and substantially more "up". She takes it just a tad more laid-back on her album version, but this is still quite nice, and the arrangement, with the karate-chop key change and the extended cadenza toward the end, is fucking inspired:
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