Triste - Sad - is a bossa nova tune composed in 1966 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, who wrote lyrics in both English and Portuguese. Jobim wrote it in late 1966 at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles while waiting for Frank Sinatra to return from Barbados so they could begin recording their Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim album (1967). The first recording was an instrumental by Jobim for the 1967 album Wave. Sinatra later recorded it with Jobim during the sessions for their planned Sinatra & Jobim project, released as Side A of Sinatra & Company (1971). An English-language vocal version appeared on Terra Brasilis in 1980. The song has been widely covered by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Elis Regina & Jobim, João Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, and Stan Getz. Triste is a classic example of the bossa nova genre and remains one of Jobim's best-known compositions.
