This is footage of the memorial gig of Jobim’s 80th birth held in August of 2007 at the Hibiya Open-air Concert Hall. The summer of this year was very hot, but fortunately this day was rather cool. I was delighted to be on the very same stage that Jobim himself had performed on 21 years ago when he first visited Japan. The cicadas were singing in chorus, and Paolo, Jobim’s son, said that he felt like his father was with him. It was the day of the Festival of the Dead in Japan, the day to welcome back the souls of the deceased revisiting this world from the next.