Post by cw on Apr 16, 2010 15:25:47 GMT 1
Given our Brazilian friends, I thought I might pay homage to THEIR music and especially a towering figure who's music became totally international.
Whilst not strictly speaking "Jazz", the work of Antonio Carlos Jobim has continued to have lasting impacts in the jazz field long since "bossa nova"s heydey in the late 50's-early 60's.
"Tom" Jobim was one of the major figures in the popularisation of the Brazilian "bossa-nova" style both at home and internationally. Bossa Nova evolved from samba but is rather less percussive and with more complex harmonies. One of it's earliest airings was via the score of the 1956 movie Black Orpheus where Jobim provided part of the score.
Bossa Nova spread beyond Brazil through Latin America where it was picked up by visting US musicians. A leading "promoter" was saxophonist & producer Stan Getz who brought Jobim & another leading bossa-nova figure Joao Gilberto to the US. One of the resulting recordings was a Grammy winner in 1964. Jobim also recorded with Frank Sinatra over that period.
A number of his compositions are universally known now, often by their English versions but the music itself is instantly recognised. Most famous are:
Garota De Ipanema (Girl From Ipanema) - the massive hit from the Getz/Gilberto collaboration & first made famous by Gilberrto's wife Astrid.
Concovado (Quiet Nights By Quiet Stars)
Insensatez (How Insensitive)
Samba De Uma Nota So (One Note Samba)
A Felicidade (Happiness) from the Black Orpheus score
Vou Te Contar (Wave)
Jobim's talents were not purely compositional & he was often seen performing his own music on piano & appeared on prime-time US TV alongside leading artists of the time vocally & on guitar.
Jobim died in December 1994, aged 67. Rio's main international airport is now named after him.
A few clips of the man himself:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33Ox1l8kOg
(giving leading US jazzman Gerry Mulligan a tutorial on One Note Samba. Quite noticably Tom was very fluent in English)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwLJhBzs-jo
An instrumental performance of Wave from the 70's
Whilst not strictly speaking "Jazz", the work of Antonio Carlos Jobim has continued to have lasting impacts in the jazz field long since "bossa nova"s heydey in the late 50's-early 60's.
"Tom" Jobim was one of the major figures in the popularisation of the Brazilian "bossa-nova" style both at home and internationally. Bossa Nova evolved from samba but is rather less percussive and with more complex harmonies. One of it's earliest airings was via the score of the 1956 movie Black Orpheus where Jobim provided part of the score.
Bossa Nova spread beyond Brazil through Latin America where it was picked up by visting US musicians. A leading "promoter" was saxophonist & producer Stan Getz who brought Jobim & another leading bossa-nova figure Joao Gilberto to the US. One of the resulting recordings was a Grammy winner in 1964. Jobim also recorded with Frank Sinatra over that period.
A number of his compositions are universally known now, often by their English versions but the music itself is instantly recognised. Most famous are:
Garota De Ipanema (Girl From Ipanema) - the massive hit from the Getz/Gilberto collaboration & first made famous by Gilberrto's wife Astrid.
Concovado (Quiet Nights By Quiet Stars)
Insensatez (How Insensitive)
Samba De Uma Nota So (One Note Samba)
A Felicidade (Happiness) from the Black Orpheus score
Vou Te Contar (Wave)
Jobim's talents were not purely compositional & he was often seen performing his own music on piano & appeared on prime-time US TV alongside leading artists of the time vocally & on guitar.
Jobim died in December 1994, aged 67. Rio's main international airport is now named after him.
A few clips of the man himself:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33Ox1l8kOg
(giving leading US jazzman Gerry Mulligan a tutorial on One Note Samba. Quite noticably Tom was very fluent in English)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwLJhBzs-jo
An instrumental performance of Wave from the 70's