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| Stone Flower (album) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Stone Flower |
| Type | studio |
| Artist | Antônio Carlos Jobim |
| Released | 1970 |
| Recorded | 1969–1970 |
| Studio | A&M Studios, Los Angeles |
| Genre | Bossa nova, jazz, MPB |
| Length | 32:12 |
| Label | A&M Records |
| Producer | George Tipton, Antonio Carlos Jobim |
| Prev title | Wave |
| Prev year | 1967 |
| Next title | Tide |
| Next year | 1970 |
Stone Flower (album) is a 1970 studio album by Brazilian composer and pianist Antônio Carlos Jobim. The record, produced during Jobim's international collaborations in Los Angeles, synthesizes bossa nova sensibilities with elements of jazz and Brazilian popular music, featuring contributions from American session musicians and Brazilian arrangers. It represents a transitional moment between Jobim's 1960s works and later 1970s projects influenced by cross-Atlantic studio practices.
Jobim recorded the album in sessions held in Los Angeles, following earlier collaborations with artists associated with A&M Records and after critical success from compositions featured in Getz/Gilberto and film soundtracks. The sessions involved arrangers and producers who had worked with figures such as Herb Alpert, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, Frank Sinatra, and session players from the Wrecking Crew. Jobim engaged with orchestrators linked to Brazilian music exponents like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil while tapping into American studio technology used on records by Burt Bacharach, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell. Recording engineers brought experience from projects with Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Mamas and the Papas, and The Carpenters, situating Jobim within a network of transnational popular music production.
The album blends bossa nova rhythmic patterns with harmonic language associated with jazz pianists such as Bill Evans and Stanley Turrentine influences, and melodic phrasing reminiscent of Jobim's collaborations with lyricists like Vinicius de Moraes and Newton Mendonça. Orchestration integrates strings and woodwinds comparable to arrangements by Eumir Deodato and Manfredo Fest, while percussion draws on Brazilian practitioners connected to Sergio Mendes projects and percussionists who recorded with Cal Tjader. Compositions on the record navigate complex chord progressions akin to those found in standards popularized by Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole, yet maintain the subtle syncopations characteristic of Jobim's earlier songs recorded by Astrud Gilberto and João Gilberto.
Released on A&M Records in 1970, the album was promoted via radio stations in New York City, Los Angeles, and Rio de Janeiro, and through appearances on television programs that featured guest musicians from the sessions. Promotional campaigns referenced Jobim's prior associations with Tom Jobim's film work and stage collaborations, and leveraged relationships with music directors who worked on broadcasts with artists such as Andy Williams, Dick Cavett, and Johnny Carson. Print promotion included features in periodicals that covered intersections of Latin American music and mainstream pop, where Jobim's name was often mentioned alongside contemporaries like Antonio Carlos Jobim-era collaborators and crossover artists such as Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra.
Contemporary reviews in international music magazines and newspapers compared the album to Jobim's landmark contributions to bossa nova and to orchestral jazz-pop albums by producers like George Martin and Quincy Jones. Critics noted arrangements evocative of sessions led by Nelson Riddle and compositional sophistication on par with work by Michel Legrand and Henry Mancini. Some commentators contrasted the album's polished studio sound with the spare aesthetics of recordings by João Gilberto and live performances by Jobim at festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival.
The record achieved modest sales in the United States and stronger reception in Brazil, charting on niche jazz and world music listings rather than mainstream pop charts dominated by acts like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Airplay on FM radio specialty shows and inclusion in programming for listeners of easy listening and adult contemporary formats contributed to sustained catalog sales, aided by reissues in various markets across Europe and Latin America where Jobim's reputation paralleled artists such as Maria Bethânia and Elis Regina.
1. "Brazil" – (Antônio Carlos Jobim) 2. "Sabiá" – (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque) 3. "Olha Maria" – (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque) 4. "Tereza My Love" – (Antônio Carlos Jobim) 5. "Bathroom Music" – (Antônio Carlos Jobim) 6. "Ligia" – (Antônio Carlos Jobim) 7. "Triste" – (Antônio Carlos Jobim) 8. "Canta" – (Antônio Carlos Jobim)
(Track credits reflect Jobim compositions and frequent collaborators such as Chico Buarque; specific album sequencing varies by pressing.)
- Antônio Carlos Jobim – piano, arrangements, vocals - Session musicians – guitarists, bassists, drummers drawn from Los Angeles studios associated with the Wrecking Crew and artists like Herb Alpert and Sergio Mendes - Arrangers and conductors – collaborators with backgrounds working with Eumir Deodato, Nelson Riddle, and Eddie Palmieri - Producers – George Tipton, Antônio Carlos Jobim - Engineers – studio staff experienced with recordings by The Carpenters and Carly Simon
(Album liner notes list full personnel, including string sections, woodwind players, and percussionists linked to Brazilian and American recording scenes.)
The album contributed to Jobim's enduring influence on later generations of composers and performers across genres, cited by artists in jazz fusion, MPB, and contemporary pop who reference Jobim alongside figures like Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Sérgio Mendes, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea. Its fusion of Brazilian rhythmic vocabulary with studio production techniques informed subsequent recordings by crossover musicians and producers working at the nexus of Latin music and Anglo-American pop, and it remains a reference point in retrospectives, reissues, and anthologies chronicling the global spread of bossa nova during the 20th century.
Category:Antônio Carlos Jobim albums Category:1970 albums