What more can be said about Rio-born songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim, deemed ‘the greatest composer of the Americas’ by Sinatra, the singer/instrumentalist who immortalised Ipanema beach and that Girl? These days it is digital remastering that shifts backcatalogues, and here we have two sublime reissues, each produced by Creed Taylor and arranged by Eumir Deodato and recorded over the same seven sessions in 1970 at Van Gelder Studios. Featuring new sleeve notes by writer Charles Waring, they showcase Jobim's knack for spare, sophisticated compositions, with highlights including ‘Rockanalia’ and ‘Tema Jazz’ benefitting from deft orchestral embellishments and solos by the likes of Hermeto Pascoal on flute. Marking Jobim's drift away from bossa nova, Stone Flower sees Jobim playing with minor piano chord arpeggios on ‘Amparo’ and going all out on the filmic title-track, with its hiccupping percussion, dependable bass grooves and doubled-up electric/acoustic piano. Add Joe Farrell's fiery soprano solo on ‘God And the Devil in the Land of the Sun’, and we've left ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ Tide's opener for dust.