Happy birthday Antinios Carlos Jobim

[Hardbopjazz]

He was such a great composer. He's been gone for 10 years already.

One of all time favorite tunes is by him, "Quiet Nights".

[Jazz Kat]

Got that right! I don't have too much from him. Except, Wave.

[Joe Carter]

He was a very prolific composer who left a great body of work, not just, as most people think, The Gir... and not just Bossa Nova.

Some of my favorites, in no particular order

1.Chovendo Na Roseira aka Double Rainbow aka Children's Games aka It's Raining in the Rose Garden in 3/4 time with two measures of 2/4

2. Mojave, another 3/4 that I would put up against any Jazz waltz

3. Brigas Nunca Mais (Fighting Never More), sublime harmony matched with a beautiful melody

4. Caminhos Cruzados

5. Ligia

I could go on...

In some of his songs, Jobim possessed a special quality of finding a certain sequence of notes that, once you heard them as a riff or motif, they stuck in your head for days at a time: the beginning sections to Agua de Beber, Ela E Carioca and Samba do Aviao are perfect examples of this.

Joe C.

[Jazz Kat]

Didn't he record all his albums with the guitar first, than with the piano?

[Jim R]

Go here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=64

[Joe Carter]

Didn't he record all his albums with the guitar first, than with the piano?

No, another urban legend. In the early days of Bossa Nova he was pictured a lot with his guitar, probably because that's the image North Americans wanted to think of him as, but piano was his first and main instrument. As a child he studied classical piano with a famous European expatriate living in Rio. The funny thing is that he was never a singer until Herbie Mann got him to sing Samba de Uma Nota So (One Note Samba) on one of his recordings in the mid 60s. In the late 50s (pre-Bossa Nova) he was a nightclub pianist, a composer, and the staff arranger for one of the larger brazilian record companies at the time, Odeon.

Joe C.

[Joe Carter]

Two fantastic Jobim sites are here:

the official:

http://www2.uol.com.br/tomjobim/index_flash.htm

and the unofficial:

http://www.nortemag.com/tom/e.index.html

Joe C.

[chris olivarez]

Hey Joe fascinating stuff. Jobim was and is one of my heroes. Thanks for the info.Good to see you.

[Jazz Kat]

Didn't he record all his albums with the guitar first, than with the piano?

No, another urban legend. In the early days of Bossa Nova he was pictured a lot with his guitar, probably because that's the image North Americans wanted to think of him as, but piano was his first and main instrument. As a child he studied classical piano with a famous European expatriate living in Rio. The funny thing is that he was never a singer until Herbie Mann got him to sing Samba de Uma Nota So (One Note Samba) on one of his recordings in the mid 60s. In the late 50s (pre-Bossa Nova) he was a nightclub pianist, a composer, and the staff arranger for one of the larger brazilian record companies at the time, Odeon.

Joe C.

I always thought of him more as a piano player than a guitarist. Just listen to his albums. He only plays rhythm acoustic guitar which most of the time gets so burried under all the other instruments. The piano is what speaks out from him.

[bluesoul]

WKCR will present the Jobim Festival from 12:00 p.m. on January 25 to 1:00 a.m. on January 26th. This tribute comes as an extension of the Som Do Brasil program, where the Latin Department champions Brazilian music in all of its forms. With this festival, the Latin Department will explore the work of a particularly influential artist, Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Jobim was born on January 25th, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro, and reached fame nationally in 1959, when he paired up with poet Vincius de Moraes to compose the score for the movie Black Orpheus, which would later go on to win the Cannes Palme d’Or. The Moraes-Jobim collaboration became one of the most successful in the world both critically and commercially, with the release of such songs as ‘Chega de Saudade’, ‘Garota de Ipanema’ and ‘So Tinha de Ser Com Voce’. Additionally, the Grammy-award winning album, Getz/Gilberto, confirmed his talent for composition on an international level. Jobim has also collaborated with artists such as Elis Regina, Sergio Mendes, Astrud Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and his music has been interpreted by a wide range of Jazz and Pop musicians including John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Byrd, Oscar Peterson, among others. He was finishing his final album, Antonio Brasileiro, when he died on December 8th, 1994.

http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/antonio-carlos-jobim-festival-tuesday-january-25th