Do you feel Jobims music will continue to hold up over the next 50 years?
Eliane You know, it’s so hard to predict what’s going to hold up. We never know. These days the adolescents are listening to something else. We have a new generation here that’s very different. But I still believe that bossa nova is sensuous. There is something about it that is just so great that people relate to. Jobim’s songs are just… He’s a great composer. I believe that he is Brazil’s best composer, like the father of our standards. So far it has been like that. It’s hard to say if it’s going to continue. That depends on who’s going to continue playing his music the way it should be played. Not many people do. His music, in a certain way, is very complex, but it can sound very simple. And because it can be done in a simple way, it is also music that is played everywhere by different… You know, I can walk into a hotel and hear it in the lobby. I can walk into a great jazz musician’s set and hear it. I mean you hear it in different ways because he reached such a wide audience. A
