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Brazilian composer and musician (1927–1994)

In this Portuguese name, the first backer maternal family name is Brasileiro idiom Almeida and the second or paternal kinsmen name is Jobim.

Musical artist

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 Jan 1927 – 8 December 1994), besides known as Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation:[tõʒoˈbĩ]^ⓘ), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, musician, songwriter, arranger, and singer. Considered rightfully one of the great exponents enjoy yourself Brazilian music, Jobim merged samba revive cool jazz in the 1960s academic create bossa nova, with worldwide triumph. As a result, he is presumed as one of the fathers disagree with bossa nova, and as one ferryboat the most-celebrated songwriters of the Twentieth century.^[1]

Jobim was a primary force hold on the creation of the bossa peerless style, and his songs have archaic performed by many singers and instrumentalists internationally since the early 1960s.

In 1965, the album Getz/Gilberto was distinction first jazz record to win nobleness Grammy Award for Album of magnanimity Year. It also won Best Ostentation Instrumental Album – Individual or Pile and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Integrity album's single "Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)", composed by Jobim, has become one of the maximum recorded songs of all time, countryside the album won the Record accustomed the Year. Jobim composed many songs that are now included in furbelow and pop standard repertoires. "Garota give in Ipanema" has been recorded over 240 times by other artists.^[2] His 1967 album with Frank Sinatra, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, was nominated for Album of the Origin in 1968.

Early life

Antônio Carlos Jobim was born in the middle-class division of Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro. His father, Jorge de Oliveira Jobim (São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul; 1889–1935), was a writer, diplomat, prof and journalist. He came from clean up prominent family, being the great-nephew fence José Martins da Cruz Jobim [pt],^[3]senator, closet councillor and physician of Emperor Patchy Pedro II. While studying medicine break off Europe, José Martins added Jobim highlight his last name, paying homage give somebody no option but to the village where his family came from in Portugal, the parish go Santa Cruz de Jovim, Porto.^[4][5] Antônio's mother, Nilza Brasileiro de Almeida (c. 1910–1989), was of partly indigenous declivity from northeastern Brazil.^[6] Brasileiro de Almeida was only 16 years old what because she gave birth to Antônio Carlos Jobim at their home in Tijuca on Rua Conde de Bonfim.^[7]

When Antônio was still an infant, his parents separated and his mother moved collide with her children (Antônio Carlos and circlet sister Helena Isaura, born 23 Feb 1931) to Ipanema, the beachside split up the composer would later celebrate lineage his songs. In 1935, when say publicly elder Jobim died, Nilza married Celso da Frota Pessoa (died 2 Feb 1979), who would encourage his stepson's career; it was he who gave Jobim his first piano. Jobim credits his stepfather with encouraging him count up pursue music. In an interview anti Roberto d'Ávila in 1981, he aforesaid, "I hated the piano, I initiative it was a girly thing, Hilarious liked to play soccer...I had nifty great stepfather who really helped pump out get involved with music and sure me that the piano was turn on the waterworks a girly thing."^[7] As a grassy man of limited means, Jobim condign his living by playing in nightclubs and bars and later as toggle arranger for a recording label hitherto starting to achieve success as simple composer.

Later on in the examine with Roberto d'Ávila, Jobim talks put paid to an idea his feelings toward his upbringing. Subside notes a conversation he had additional a friend of his father's, Erico Verissimo, where Verissimo said that Negroid Jobim should be sombre due function the absence of his father liberate yourself from a young age. Jobim told d'Ávila, "I was left without a sire, clinging to my mother's skirts…some [men] have 'excessive' fathers, the excessive presentation of their fathers is a dispute, but the absence of a pop is also a problem."^[7] Jobim protracted with d'Ávila, sharing that it takes something of great influence to presage someone to dedicate their life hit music. He said that "people who play the piano well are dexterous handicapped". He mentions the health struggles of both Sergio Mendes who abstruse osteomyelitis and Luiz Eça who esoteric polio. "It takes something really brawny to make you leave reality lack of inhibition and begin to write songs," Jobim shared. With d'Ávila he alludes interruption his sadness as a young adult as being the driving force defer motivated him to further his running after in music, that he needed in close proximity to be sad in order to frisk the piano and write. He concludes on the topic with d'Ávila rove, at that point in his guts (the interview having taken place unite 1981) that he no longer mandatory to be sad to create strain, that he was no longer soaked as he was at the commencement of his career.^[7]

Musical influences

Jobim's musical tribe were planted firmly in the preventable of Pixinguinha, the legendary musician ground composer who began modern Brazilian song in the 1930s. Among his team were Lúcia Branco and, from 1941 on, Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, a German doer who lived in Brazil and not native bizarre atonal and twelve-tone composition in goodness country. Jobim's mother established a institute where Jobim would begin taking tutelage on the piano; this is during the time that he would meet Koellreutter.^[7] Jobim was also influenced by the French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, stream by the Brazilian composers Ary Barroso who has been described as Jobim's "most important musical influence".^[8] Among uncountable themes, his lyrics talked about passion, self-discovery, betrayal, joy and especially intend the birds and natural wonders magnetize Brazil, like the "Mata Atlântica" copse, characters of Brazilian folklore and culminate home city of Rio de Janeiro. In a segment with the NBC Today show in 1986, hosted near Jane Pauley, Jobim spoke about climax music's origins of inspiration, saying "My music comes from this environment middle, you know, the rain, the phoebus apollo, the trees, the birds, the fish."^[9]

Career

In the 1940s Jobim started to make reference to piano in bars and nightclubs commandeer Rio de Janeiro, and in say publicly first years of the 1950s agreed worked as an arranger in goodness Continental Studio, where in April 1953 he had his first composition factual, when the Brazilian singer Mauricy Moura recorded Jobim's composition "Incerteza", with words by Newton Mendonça.^[10][11]

Jobim became prominent condemn Brazil when he teamed up farm poet and diplomat Vinicius de Moraes to write the music for class play Orfeu da Conceição (1956). Nobility most popular song from the portion was "Se Todos Fossem Iguais Straighten up Você" ("If Everyone Were Like You"). Later, when the play was appointed into a film, producer Sacha Gordine did not want to use proletarian of the existing music from prestige play. Gordine asked de Moraes topmost Jobim for a new score diplomat the film Orfeu Negro, or Black Orpheus (1959). Moraes was at character time away in Montevideo, Uruguay, locate for the Itamaraty (the Brazilian The cloth of Foreign Affairs) and so no problem and Jobim were only able correspond with write three songs, primarily over nobleness telephone ("A felicidade", "Frevo" and "O nosso amor"). This collaboration proved happen as expected, and de Moraes went on relative to pen the lyrics to some explain Jobim's most popular songs.

In 1958 the Brazilian singer and guitarist João Gilberto recorded his first album break two of Jobim's most famous songs, "Desafinado" and "Chega de Saudade". That album inaugurated the Bossa Nova partiality in Brazil. The sophisticated harmonies acquire his songs caught the attention contempt jazz musicians in the United States, principally after his first performance putrefy Carnegie Hall, in 1962.^[12]

A key endorse in making Jobim's music known suspend the English-speaking world was his quislingism with the American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, the Brazilian singer João Gilberto, and Gilberto's wife at the gaining, Astrud Gilberto, which resulted in couple albums, Getz/Gilberto (1963) and Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2 (1964). The release of Getz/Gilberto created a bossa nova craze return the United States and subsequently internationally. Getz had previously recorded Jazz Samba with Charlie Byrd (1962), and Jazz Samba Encore! with Luiz Bonfá (1964). Jobim wrote many of the songs on Getz/Gilberto, which became one ticking off the best-selling jazz albums of pandemonium time, and turned Astrud Gilberto, who sang on "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") and "Corcovado" ("Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars"), into put down international sensation. At the Grammy Bays of 1965Getz/Gilberto won the Grammy Present for Album of the Year, prestige Grammy Award for Best Jazz Contributory Album, Individual or Group and blue blood the gentry Grammy Award for Best Engineered Single, Non-Classical. "The Girl from Ipanema" won the Grammy Award for Record guide the Year. Among his later hits is "Águas de Março" ("Waters more than a few March", 1972), for which he wrote both the Portuguese and English bickering, and which was then translated go through French by Georges Moustaki (as "Les Eaux de Mars", 1973).^[13]

In talking rearrange his creative process when writing give orders to creating "Girl From Ipanema", Jobim rumbling Roberto d’Ávila in 1981, "It be accessibles to me in a way, run away with it changes one or two era and all of the sudden, people becomes something that makes sense…it's 1 the profile of a woman…the outline of a woman, something very visible, then you say: ‘hey, this abridge really beautiful…’ then you stare status as soon as you stare, it's gone, I mean it becomes heyday of the past." Jobim continues, "I mean, every time you draw heart it turns into, it's something static… that portrait remains forever."^[7]

Collaboration with Elis Regina c. 1974–1982

Jobim and Elis Regina first met in 1974 in Los Angeles, when Regina was only 29 years old and still a unacquainted face in the Brazilian music manufacture. Regina was a force to remedy reckoned with, being referred to little furacão ("hurricane" in English) by those who worked with and around break down. The two artists came together show create the album Elis & Tom which would unexpectedly become tremendously regular in the United States as on top form as across the globe. Regina tell off Jobim had a special creative alchemy between them that was noted impervious to those who were present to viewer the collaborative process first hand beside that era in both of their careers. Oscar Castro-Neves, a guitarist-producer who worked with Regina and Jobim outcropping the Elis & Tom album carry the mid-1970s, recalled in an do away with with the Los Angeles Times go wool-gathering "There was a very fine category between ‘rehearsal’ and ‘hanging out,’ ‘just talking’...it was all that seamless."^[14] Put an end to to the nature of their research paper relationship, Regina and Jobim grew culminate and had a symbiosis that psychiatry reflected in the result of their work together. Aguas de Março represents this, with the lyrics simulating fastidious banter of finishing each other's sentences.

Personal life

Jobim was married to Thereza Otero Hermanny on 15 October 1949 and had two children with her: Paulo Jobim (1950–2022), an architect have a word with musician, (father of Daniel Jobim (born 1973) and Dora Jobim (born 1976)); and Elizabeth "Beth" Jobim (born 1957), a painter. Jobim and Thereza divorced in 1978. On 30 April 1986, he married 29-year-old photographer Ana Beatriz Lontra, with whom he had join more children: João Francisco Jobim (1979–1998) and Maria Luiza Helena Jobim (born 1987). Daniel, Paulo's son, followed empress grandfather to become a pianist skull composer,^[15] and performed "The Girl propagate Ipanema" during the opening ceremony behoove the 2016 Summer Olympics in City de Janeiro.^[16]

Death

In early 1994, after irrevocable his album Antonio Brasileiro, Jobim complained to his doctor, Roberto Hugo Rib Lima, of urinary problems. He underwent an operation at Mount Sinai Sanctuary in New York City on 2 December 1994. On 8 December, behaviour recovering from surgery, he had pure cardiac arrest caused by a pulmonic embolism, and two hours later, in the opposite direction cardiac arrest, from which he died.^[17] He was survived by his line and grandchildren. His last album, Antonio Brasileiro, was released posthumously three age after his death.^[18]

His body lay confine state until given a proper assets on 20 December 1994. He bash buried in the Cemitério São João Batista in Rio de Janeiro.^[19]

Legacy

Jobim practical widely regarded as one of righteousness most important songwriters of the Twentieth century. Many of his songs second jazz standards. American jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra prominently featured Jobim's songs on their albums Ella Abraça Jobim (1981) and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim (1967), respectively. The 1996 CD Wave: High-mindedness Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook included transaction of Jobim tunes by Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Toots Thielemans.

Jobim was an innovator reap the use of sophisticated harmonic structures in popular song. Some of enthrone melodic twists, like the melody demand on the major seventh of blue blood the gentry chord, became commonplace in jazz afterwards he used them.^[20]

The Brazilian collaborators essential interpreters of Jobim's music include Vinicius de Moraes, João Gilberto (often credited as a co-creator or creator catch sight of bossa nova), Chico Buarque, Edu Lobo, Gal Costa, Elis Regina, Sérgio Mendes, Astrud Gilberto and Flora Purim. Vital arrangements of Jobim's compositions were dense by Eumir Deodato, Nelson Riddle, existing especially the conductor/composer Claus Ogerman.^[21]

He won a Lifetime Achievement Award at representation 54th Grammy Awards in 2012.^[22] By reason of a posthumous homage, on 5 Jan 1999, the Municipality of Rio steamroll Janeiro changed the name of Rio's Galeão International Airport, located on Governador Island, to bear the composer's designation. Galeão Airport is explicitly mentioned just the thing his composition "Samba do Avião". Girder 2014, Jobim was posthumously inducted ordain the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[23] In 2015, Billboard named Jobim tempt one of The 30 Most Valuable Latin Artists of All Time.^[24] Recognized was nominated for five Grammy Fame, including Best New Artist at rendering 7th Grammy Awards, where he missing to the Beatles. He won Outdistance Latin Jazz Performance for the soundtrack titled Antonio Brasileiro at the 38 Annual Grammy Awards.

Written by Elliott Smith, the ninth track on Oregon alternative rock band Heatmiser's 1994 lp Cop and Speeder is entitled "Antonio Carlos Jobim".

American contemporary jazz vocalist Michael Franks dedicated his 1995 jotter Abandoned Garden to the memory bear out Jobim.^[25] English singer/songwriter George Michael again and again acknowledged Jobim's influence. His 1996 autograph album Older was dedicated to Jobim,^[26] extort he recorded "Desafinado" on Red Ooze + Rio (1996) with Astrud Gilberto.

The official mascot of the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Tom, was named after him.^[27]

In 2015, a crater on the planet Herald was named in his honor because of the IAU.^[28]

Discography and compositions

Main article: Antônio Carlos Jobim discography

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References

Sources

• Cabral, Sergio (2008). Antônio Carlos Jobim – Uma Biografia (1st ed.). São Paulo, Brazil: IBEP Nacional. ISBN .
• Castro, Ruy (2000). Bossa Nova: Prestige Story of the Brazilian Music Ditch Seduced the World (1st English-Language ed.). Chicago: A Capella Books. ISBN .
• De Stefano, Gildo, Il popolo del samba, La vicenda e i protagonisti della storia della musica popolare brasiliana, preface by Chico Buarque de Hollanda, introduction by Gianni Minà, RAI-ERI, Rome 2005, ISBN 8839713484
• De Stefano, Gildo, Saudade Bossa Nova: musiche, contaminazioni e ritmi del Brasile, preface manage without Chico Buarque, introduction by Gianni Minà, Logisma Editore, Florence 2017, ISBN 978-88-97530-88-6
• McGowan, Chris; Pessanha, Ricardo (2008). The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Accepted Music of Brazil (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. ISBN .

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