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Antonio Carlos Jobim et al: Focus On Bossa Nova
by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
This is a trip into the world of bossa nova. Or the worlds of bossa nova. For the style that made Brazilian music so respected and famous all over the world has some subdivisions that coexist among its universe. Bossa nova ranges from the cool/introspective/airy sounds patented by Joao Gilberto in the late Fifties, to a strong/vigorous/hard-bop influenced samba-jazz that reigned in the mid-Sixties. But both streams are equally sophisticated in harmonic terms, mixing beautiful melodies with captivating grooves. So, ...
Continue ReadingVerve's Bossa Nova U.S.A.
by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
Paul Desmond: Samba with Some Barbecue Originally titled “Struttin' with Some Barbecue" in 1941, this Satchmo tune lost its Dixie beat and got a bossa groove in the hands of the infallible Don Sebesky. Brazilian drummer Airto Moreira, then a newcomer in the New York jazz scene, provides a fiery propulsion to Paul Desmond's lyrical approach and “dry martini" alto sound. Different from the sad results of pseudo-bossa albums by Gene Ammons, Sonny Rollins, and so many others, this is ...
Continue ReadingAmerican jazz embraces bossa nova
by Larry Slater
Bossa Nova and the compositions of Antonio Carlos Jobim have continued to inspire musicians across the globe, including many jazz musicians in the US from the 1960s to the present day.Jazz in the 1960s saw the emergence of the jazz avant-garde, and many musicians found their audience slipping away to rock and the English invasion. Bossa Nova's popularity gave them a chance to recapture some of their audience. Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Zoot Sims, ...
Continue ReadingThe Brazilians Cover Bossa Nova
by Larry Slater
Bossa nova emerged from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the late 1950s and early '60s. After the 1964 coup d'état, as a military regime took control of Brazil, the positive energy of the bossa nova era quickly dissipated and enthusiasm for the music shifted to the US. The music of Antonio Carlos Jobim and other bossa nova composers continues to be embraced by Brazilian musicians, though the music is no longer popular in Brazil. You don't see ...
Continue ReadingThe Birth of Bossa Nova
by Larry Slater
Brasil is a country full of music. Samba, which was strongly influenced by African music, originated in Rio de Janeiro about 100 years ago Bossa nova, the focus of this hour, is basically a fusing of the harmonic vocabulary from jazz with the rhythmic complexity brought from samba and choroSince its inception in Rio de Janeiro during the late 1950s, Bossa nova has had a lasting influence on the global music scene The bossa nova style arrived in ...
Continue ReadingJ come Jobim
by Paolo Peviani
J come Jobim--Una Nota Sola e Molte Culture Polillo Art Container Alfabeto di Parco Milano 19.06.2024 Terzo appuntamento di Alfabeto di Parco, rassegna che porta al Polillo Art Container una serie di incontri, lezioni concerto a tema. Un alfabeto che procede in modo randomico e che dopo la R di Max Roach e la S di Frank Sinatra, ci ha proposto la J di Antonio Carlos Jobim. Figura fondamentale di quell'immenso universo che è ...
Continue ReadingElis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim: A Musical Love Story and a Timeless Recording
by Victor L. Schermer
One of my all-time favorite albums and desert island picks is Elis and Tom (Phillips, 1974), featuring duets by the legendary Antonio Carlos “Tom" Jobim and Elis Regina, an iconic Brazilian singer lesser known in the U.S. who a few years later died of a drug overdose at the age of 36. I'm writing about it now because recently I was listening to some of Jobim's records and took this one off the shelf and played it. I marveled as ...
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