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Ella Abraça Jobim

Ella Abraça Jobim
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Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1981
Recorded

September 17–19, 1980,
March 18–20, 1981

Hollywood, Los Angeles
Genre Jazz, bossa nova
Length 74:31
Label Pablo
Producer Norman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology
A Perfect Match
(1979)A Perfect Match1979
Ella Abraça Jobim
(1981)
The Best Is Yet to Come
(1982)The Best Is Yet to Come1982
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 3/5 stars

September 17–19, 1980,
March 18–20, 1981

Ella Abraça Jobim or Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook is a 1981 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, devoted to the songs of Antônio Carlos Jobim.

It was reissued on CD in 1991, although the CD version does not include the songs "Don't Ever Go Away" and "Song of the Jet".

Though it is subtitled as such, this album is not usually considered part of Fitzgerald's 'Songbook' series, the last of the 'Songbook' albums having been recorded in 1964.

It was Fitzgerald's first album of music devoted to a single composer since 1972's Ella Loves Cole, and it was her only album recorded entirely in the bossa nova style, though she had been singing Jobim's songs since the mid-1960s.

Fitzgerald never worked with Antônio Carlos Jobim, though she appeared alongside Frank Sinatra for a 1967 television special that also featured Jobim.

The title has a pun, as Ela (with a single l) translates as "she". It can be translated as 'She Hugs Jobim' (Ela Abraça Jobim) or 'Ella Hugs Jobim".

All songs composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyricists indicated.


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