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Composer, pianist and arranger from Rio de Janeiro. He wrote the songs bossa nova is sung in, and the world has hummed them ever since.
Composer, Pianist, GuitarRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994), Tom to everyone, was a composer, pianist and arranger, born in Tijuca and brought up in Ipanema, in Rio de Janeiro.
He studied piano as a boy, with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter among his teachers, and listened to Pixinguinha, Debussy and Ravel. In the 1950s he played in the bars and nightclubs of Copacabana and worked as an arranger for the record labels. In 1956 he began to write with the poet Vinicius de Moraes, for the play Orfeu da Conceição, whose film version, Orfeu Negro, came out in 1959.
In 1958 João Gilberto recorded Chega de Saudade with the guitar beat that gave the new music its shape, and the record of the same name followed in 1959, with Desafinado among its songs. Jobim played at Carnegie Hall in 1962. Garota de Ipanema, written with Vinicius that year, reached the world on Getz/Gilberto, recorded in New York in March 1963 and released in 1964, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1965.
Wave came out in 1967, with Claus Ogerman’s strings, the same year as his record with Frank Sinatra; then Stone Flower in 1970 and Águas de Março in 1972. In 1968 his Sabiá, with words by Chico Buarque, won the Festival Internacional da Canção in Rio. Elis & Tom, with Elis Regina, was recorded in Los Angeles in 1974. From the 1980s he played with the Banda Nova, and in 1987 he made Passarim.
He died in New York on 8 December 1994, aged 67, three days before his last record, Antonio Brasileiro, came out. Rio’s international airport carries his name.
This is a demo site, a tribute built to show what a musician’s page on TJP can hold. Its nights are the demo’s own.
My music comes from this environment here, you know, the rain, the sun, the trees, the birds, the fish.
Stan, João is saying that his dream always was to record with you.
Essential for all serious jazz collections.
Elis is an incredible singer.
The poet and the composer met in 1956, for the play Orfeu da Conceição, and went on to write Chega de Saudade, Garota de Ipanema and a long run of songs. For Orfeu Negro they wrote three songs over the telephone while they were apart.
Read more (Vinicius de Moraes)
Stan Getz, João Gilberto and Jobim at the piano, in New York on 18 and 19 March 1963. Astrud Gilberto sang the English verses of Garota de Ipanema; the record won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
Read more (Getz and Gilberto)
The song with words by Chico Buarque that won the Festival Internacional da Canção in Rio in 1968. The two were photographed together at the festival that October.
Read more (Sabiá, with Chico Buarque)
Marcel Camus’s film of 1959, from the play Jobim and Vinicius wrote three years before. The score is by Luiz Bonfá and Jobim, and A Felicidade, by Jobim and Vinicius, opens it.
Read more (Orfeu Negro)The group he played with from the 1980s, with his family and old friends: the sound of Passarim and of the records that followed.
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