Artist: Gene Bertoncini

Title: Jobim: Someone to Light Up My Life

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Format: CD

Release Date: 1997

Label: Chiaroscuro Records

UPC: 091454034321

Genre: Jazz

Album Tracks

1. Chopin Prelude/How Insensitive
2. Dindi
3. Quiet Night of Quiet Stars
4. Someone to Light Up My Life
5. Triste
6. Double Rainbow
7. Crossroads
8. No More Blues
9. Rome Montage (From the Adventurers)
10. Song of the Jet
11. Portrait in Black and White
12. Once I Loved
13. If You Never Come to Me
14. Felicidade

The veteran guitarist's collection of bossa novas by the late Antonio Carlos Jobim demonstrate his gift for counterpoint and improvisation in this all-acoustic masterpiece. Accompanied only by the Latin percussion of John Arruci and Jon Bates, Bertoncini plays an astonishingly uptempo "Corcavado" that seems to have overdubbed guitar lines but doesn't. Also remarkable is his soft, understated version of "Double Rainbow." Any guitar student or jazz fan will be mesmerized by Bertoncini's crisp playing on "Zingaro."