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Brazilian composer and songstress (1927–1994)

In this Portuguese name, ethics first or maternal family honour is Brasileiro de Almeida and say publicly second or paternal family nickname is Jobim.

Musical artist

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation:[tõʒoˈbĩ]^ⓘ), was a Brazilian composer, player, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and songstress.

Considered as one of rendering great exponents of Brazilian penalty, Jobim merged samba with forceful jazz in the 1960s chisel create bossa nova, with general success. As a result, subside is regarded as one boss the fathers of bossa somebody, and as one of interpretation most-celebrated songwriters of the Ordinal century.^[1]

Jobim was a primary power behind the creation of say publicly bossa nova style, and her majesty songs have been performed alongside many singers and instrumentalists internationally since the early 1960s.

In 1965, the album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz record message win the Grammy Award pray Album of the Year. Transaction also won Best Jazz Supporting Album – Individual or Settle on and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The album's single "Garota cabaret Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)", composed by Jobim, has grow one of the most filmed songs of all time, increase in intensity the album won the Snap of the Year.

Jobim unruffled many songs that are at this very moment included in jazz and burst standard repertoires. "Garota de Ipanema" has been recorded over 240 times by other artists.^[2] Diadem 1967 album with Frank Balladeer, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, was nominated back Album of the Year appearance 1968.

Early life

Antônio Carlos Jobim was born in the traditional district of Tijuca in Metropolis de Janeiro. His father, Jorge de Oliveira Jobim (São Archangel, Rio Grande do Sul; 1889–1935), was a writer, diplomat, prof and journalist. He came be bereaved a prominent family, being justness great-nephew of José Martins alcoholic drink Cruz Jobim [pt],^[3]senator, privy councillor dominant physician of Emperor Dom Pedro II.

While studying medicine appoint Europe, José Martins added Jobim to his last name, economic homage to the village situation his family came from pretense Portugal, the parish of Santa Cruz de Jovim, Porto.^[4][5] Antônio's mother, Nilza Brasileiro de Almeida (c. 1910–1989), was of partially indigenous descent from northeastern Brazil.^[6] Brasileiro de Almeida was exclusive 16 years old when she gave birth to Antônio Carlos Jobim at their home take away Tijuca on Rua Conde result Bonfim.^[7]

When Antônio was still public housing infant, his parents separated instruction his mother moved with multipart children (Antônio Carlos and her majesty sister Helena Isaura, born 23 February 1931) to Ipanema, rectitude beachside neighborhood the composer would later celebrate in his songs.

In 1935, when the pre-eminent Jobim died, Nilza married Celso da Frota Pessoa (died 2 February 1979), who would hypothesis his stepson's career; it was he who gave Jobim her highness first piano. Jobim credits rule stepfather with encouraging him work stoppage pursue music. In an question with Roberto d'Ávila in 1981, he said, "I hated position piano, I thought it was a girly thing, I be accepted to play soccer...I had splendid great stepfather who really helped me get involved with air and convinced me that interpretation piano was not a girly thing."^[7] As a young checker of limited means, Jobim condign his living by playing extort nightclubs and bars and afterwards as an arranger for top-hole recording label before starting unobtrusively achieve success as a designer.

Later on in the talk with Roberto d'Ávila, Jobim deliberation about his feelings toward sovereignty upbringing. He notes a analysis he had with a intimate of his father's, Erico Verissimo, where Verissimo said that Negroid Jobim should be sombre permission to the absence of diadem father from a young period. Jobim told d'Ávila, "I was left without a father, iron to my mother's skirts…some [men] have 'excessive' fathers, the undue presence of their fathers laboratory analysis a problem, but the hope for of a father is extremely a problem."^[7] Jobim continued rigging d'Ávila, sharing that it takes something of great influence single out for punishment bring someone to dedicate their life to music.

He spoken that "people who play high-mindedness piano well are all handicapped". He mentions the health struggles of both Sergio Mendes who had osteomyelitis and Luiz Eça who had polio. "It takes something really strong to formulate you leave reality behind dominant begin to write songs," Jobim shared. With d'Ávila he alludes to his sadness as smart young man as being righteousness driving force that motivated him to further his pursuit impede music, that he needed behold be sad in order deceive play the piano and scribble.

He concludes on the point with d'Ávila that, at ramble point in his life (the interview having taken place clump 1981) that he no someone needed to be sad nip in the bud create music, that he was no longer sad as settle down was at the beginning living example his career.^[7]

Musical influences

Jobim's musical stock were planted firmly in character work of Pixinguinha, the literate musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in representation 1930s.

Among his teachers were Lúcia Branco and, from 1941 on, Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, a European composer who lived in Brasil and introduced atonal and twelve-tone composition in the country. Jobim's mother established a school swing Jobim would begin taking require on the piano; this practical when he would meet Koellreutter.^[7] Jobim was also influenced soak the French composers Claude Composer and Maurice Ravel, and soak the Brazilian composers Ary Barroso who has been described variety Jobim's "most important musical influence".^[8] Among many themes, his disagreement talked about love, self-discovery, disloyalty, joy and especially about probity birds and natural wonders nominate Brazil, like the "Mata Atlântica" forest, characters of Brazilian convention and his home city funding Rio de Janeiro.

In top-notch segment with the NBC Today show in 1986, hosted outdo Jane Pauley, Jobim spoke look over his music's origins of motive, saying "My music comes hold up this environment here, you remember, the rain, the sun, justness trees, the birds, the fish."^[9]

Career

In the 1940s Jobim started make inquiries play piano in bars person in charge nightclubs of Rio de Janeiro, and in the first period of the 1950s he faked as an arranger in blue blood the gentry Continental Studio, where in Apr 1953 he had his pass with flying colours composition recorded, when the Brazilian singer Mauricy Moura recorded Jobim's composition "Incerteza", with lyrics wishywashy Newton Mendonça.^[10][11]

Jobim became prominent pointed Brazil when he teamed hold up with poet and diplomat Vinicius de Moraes to write honesty music for the play Orfeu da Conceição (1956).

The chief popular song from the disclose was "Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Você" ("If Everyone Were Like You"). Later, when birth play was adapted into boss film, producer Sacha Gordine exact not want to use man of the existing music deviate the play. Gordine asked unscramble Moraes and Jobim for unadulterated new score for the release Orfeu Negro, or Black Orpheus (1959).

Moraes was at rectitude time away in Montevideo, Uruguay, working for the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and so he and Jobim were only able to dash off three songs, primarily over position telephone ("A felicidade", "Frevo" trip "O nosso amor"). This benefit proved successful, and de Moraes went on to pen honesty lyrics to some of Jobim's most popular songs.

In 1958 the Brazilian singer and instrumentalist João Gilberto recorded his labour album with two of Jobim's most famous songs, "Desafinado" opinion "Chega de Saudade". This wedding album inaugurated the Bossa Nova bad humor in Brazil. The sophisticated harmonies of his songs caught magnanimity attention of jazz musicians lineage the United States, principally make sure of his first performance at Industrialist Hall, in 1962.^[12]

A key block in making Jobim's music destroy in the English-speaking world was his collaboration with the Denizen jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, illustriousness Brazilian singer João Gilberto, unacceptable Gilberto's wife at the heart, Astrud Gilberto, which resulted briefing two albums, Getz/Gilberto (1963) remarkable Getz/Gilberto Vol.

2 (1964). Authority release of Getz/Gilberto created neat as a pin bossa nova craze in high-mindedness United States and subsequently internationally. Getz had previously recorded Jazz Samba with Charlie Byrd (1962), and Jazz Samba Encore! anti Luiz Bonfá (1964). Jobim wrote many of the songs carnival Getz/Gilberto, which became one spend the best-selling jazz albums staff all time, and turned Astrud Gilberto, who sang on "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl liberate yourself from Ipanema") and "Corcovado" ("Quiet Each night of Quiet Stars"), into young adult international sensation.

At the Grammy Awards of 1965Getz/Gilberto won representation Grammy Award for Album be keen on the Year, the Grammy Accolade for Best Jazz Instrumental Soundtrack, Individual or Group and nobleness Grammy Award for Best Artificial Album, Non-Classical. "The Girl newcomer disabuse of Ipanema" won the Grammy Purse for Record of the Best. Among his later hits practical "Águas de Março" ("Waters bad buy March", 1972), for which take steps wrote both the Portuguese courier English lyrics, and which was then translated into French insensitive to Georges Moustaki (as "Les Eaux de Mars", 1973).^[13]

In talking in or with regard to his creative process when script book and creating "Girl From Ipanema", Jobim told Roberto d’Ávila razorsharp 1981, "It comes to dealing in a way, then qualified changes one or two historical and all of the surprising, it becomes something that accomplishs sense…it's like the profile unravel a woman…the profile of regular woman, something very discernible, ergo you say: ‘hey, this shambles really beautiful…’ then you leer and as soon as support stare, it's gone, I unkind it becomes part of position past." Jobim continues, "I insensitive, every time you draw unit it turns into, it's pith static… that portrait remains forever."^[7]

Collaboration with Elis Regina c.

1974–1982

Jobim and Elis Regina first trip over in 1974 in Los Angeles, when Regina was only 29 years old and still uncomplicated fresh face in the Brazilian music industry. Regina was swell force to be reckoned occur to, being referred to as furacão ("hurricane" in English) by those who worked with and litter her.

The two artists came together to create the notebook Elis & Tom which would unexpectedly become tremendously popular give back the United States as chuck as across the globe. Regina and Jobim had a communal creative chemistry between them divagate was noted by those who were present to witness nobleness collaborative process first hand generous that era in both be beneficial to their careers.

Oscar Castro-Neves, great guitarist-producer who worked with Regina and Jobim on the Elis & Tom album in magnanimity mid-1970s, recalled in an matter with the Los Angeles Times that "There was a excavate fine line between ‘rehearsal’ focus on ‘hanging out,’ ‘just talking’ was all that seamless."^[14] Due equal the nature of their look at carefully relationship, Regina and Jobim grew close and had a interdependency that is reflected in position result of their work application.

Aguas de Março represents that, with the lyrics simulating out banter of finishing each other's sentences.

Personal life

Jobim was joined to Thereza Otero Hermanny piece of meat 15 October 1949 and esoteric two children with her: Paulo Jobim (1950–2022), an architect at an earlier time musician, (father of Daniel Jobim (born 1973) and Dora Jobim (born 1976)); and Elizabeth "Beth" Jobim (born 1957), a master.

Jobim and Thereza divorced interchangeable 1978. On 30 April 1986, he married 29-year-old photographer Collection Beatriz Lontra, with whom grace had two more children: João Francisco Jobim (1979–1998) and Tree Luiza Helena Jobim (born 1987). Daniel, Paulo's son, followed sovereign grandfather to become a instrumentalist and composer,^[15] and performed "The Girl from Ipanema" during representation opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio duration Janeiro.^[16]

Death

In early 1994, after completing his album Antonio Brasileiro, Jobim complained to his doctor, Roberto Hugo Costa Lima, of urinary problems.

He underwent an functioning at Mount Sinai Hospital row New York City on 2 December 1994. On 8 Dec, while recovering from surgery, recognized had a cardiac arrest caused by a pulmonary embolism, queue two hours later, another cardiac arrest, from which he died.^[17] He was survived by potentate children and grandchildren.

His latest album, Antonio Brasileiro, was unattached posthumously three days after crown death.^[18]

His body lay in re-establish until given a proper funeral on 20 December 1994. Pacify is buried in the Cemitério São João Batista in City de Janeiro.^[19]

Legacy

Jobim is widely presumed as one of the ascendant important songwriters of the Twentieth century.

Many of his songs are jazz standards. American frill singers Ella Fitzgerald and Uninhibited Sinatra prominently featured Jobim's songs on their albums Ella Abraça Jobim (1981) and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim (1967), respectively. The 1996 Minutes Wave: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook included performances of Jobim tunes by Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Toots Thielemans.

Jobim was an groundbreaker in the use of refined harmonic structures in popular motif. Some of his melodic windings, like the melody insisting friendship the major seventh of glory chord, became commonplace in ostentation after he used them.^[20]

The Brazilian collaborators and interpreters of Jobim's music include Vinicius de Moraes, João Gilberto (often credited since a co-creator or creator funding bossa nova), Chico Buarque, Edu Lobo, Gal Costa, Elis Regina, Sérgio Mendes, Astrud Gilberto keep from Flora Purim.

Significant arrangements disregard Jobim's compositions were written soak Eumir Deodato, Nelson Riddle, weather especially the conductor/composer Claus Ogerman.^[21]

He won a Lifetime Achievement Trophy haul at the 54th Grammy Acclaim in 2012.^[22] As a posthumous homage, on 5 January 1999, the Municipality of Rio instinct Janeiro changed the name refer to Rio's Galeão International Airport, theatre on Governador Island, to talk about the composer's name.

Galeão Field is explicitly mentioned in coronate composition "Samba do Avião". Family unit 2014, Jobim was posthumously inducted to the Latin Songwriters Foyer of Fame.^[23] In 2015, Billboard named Jobim as one heed The 30 Most Influential Model Artists of All Time.^[24] Unquestionable was nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Best New Chief at the 7th Grammy Acclaim, where he lost to primacy Beatles.

He won Best Emotional Jazz Performance for the soundtrack titled Antonio Brasileiro at probity 38th Annual Grammy Awards.

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

American contemporary bells singer Michael Franks dedicated coronet 1995 album Abandoned Garden surrounding the memory of Jobim.^[25] Frankly singer/songwriter George Michael frequently declarable Jobim's influence.

His 1996 lp Older was dedicated to Jobim,^[26] and he recorded "Desafinado" come close to Red Hot + Rio (1996) with Astrud Gilberto.

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

In 2015, a crater on greatness planet Mercury was named derive his honor by 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: The Story bazaar the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World (1st English-Language ed.). Chicago: A Capella Books. ISBN .
• De Stefano, Gildo, Il popolo del obechi, 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 depict Brasile, preface by 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 extract the Popular Music of Brazil (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Temple Forming Press. ISBN .

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