"Triste" (meaning "Sad" in English) is a
bossa nova
Bossa nova () is a style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a "different beat" that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords and an innovativ ...
song composed in 1966 by
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and singer. Considered one of the great exponents of Brazilian mu ...
, who also wrote lyrics for it in both English and Portuguese.
Background
Jobim wrote the song in late 1966 while staying at the
Sunset Marquis Hotel in
Los Angeles
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, as he waited for
Frank Sinatra to return from a holiday in Barbados so they could begin recording their album
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim (1967).
[Jobim, Helena, ''Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man'', Hal Leonard, Montclair, NJ, 2011. >]
The first recording of the song was an instrumental version by Jobim for his 1967 album ''
Wave
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.'' Sinatra recorded it with Jobim two years later on the sessions for their planned second album, ''SinatraJobim,'' which was ultimately released as Side A of ''
Sinatra & Company'' (1971).
Jobim recorded an English-language vocal version in 1980 on the album ''
Terra Brasilis''.
Recorded versions
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