The first time I heard this CD was late at night several years ago. The entire 75 minutes this album played on my CD player I sat down listening in awe delighted that a human being could create such beautiful sound with charming and poetic lyrics to match. The orchestration is near perfection. I have not since heard music as beautiful and haunting as what's been crafted here. By far his best effort!

Anyone who is a fan of "A Certain Mr. Jobim", "Wave", "Urubu" or any of the other joint efforts by Tom Jobim and Claus Ogerman (arranger), will want to add this album to their collection of Jobim recordings. Beautiful orchestral arrangements--the kind for which Ogerman never disappoints. There are some very moving tracks here--enough that it is difficult for me to single out a favorite track--and I don't know how anyone could not enjoy listening to every minute of this CD.

Plus Warner Bros. Records wasn't really going the 'Extra Mile' on jazz releases during this period, so that could also account for the poor sales. Never-The-Less a very enjoyable set from the start to the finish!

I have loved this CD for many years. It is an album, where I feel Jobim did it his way. He sings all the songs, one with his mulher, (Wife) Ana. A Very peaceful album. Produced and performed in Honesty. I Highly Recommend it! David datogallery

Before this Jobim had released two great albums "Matita Pere" and "Urubu", where he seemed to try to go beyond the bossa-nova, for which he was primarily known. Maybe these albums weren't commercially succesfull enough, at any rate he chose with this album, to primarily return to his bossa-nova classics. Thus, even though the opulent title "Terra Brasilis" suggests, that this might be a collection of tonepoems about Brazil, it's basically rerecordings of a lot of his bossa standards and even some prebossa songs. Of course a lot of those songs are great, but Ogermans arrangements are a little too sugary and Jobim's performances also sound a little sloppy, like he doesn't take it too seriously, which might have something to do with uninspiring arrangements and him singing some songs, that probably were old to him and also in a language that wasn't his own. Maybe he also just didn't think of himself so much as a performer. A pity because you only need to listen to "Ligia" from "Urubu" to hear what a great singer he could be, when he wanted to and sang in his own language. Since it's originally a double album, of course there are some good moments like "Voce Vai Ver" and "Two Kites" that shows, that he hadn't lost his songwriting chops, but overall the whole thing, which might have worked if it had been edited down to a single album, is a little too lacklustre and not exactly Jobim at his sharpest.