Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, Tom Jobim, ( born January 25, 1927 at Tijuca district of Rio de Janeiro, † December 8, 1994 in New York) was a Brazilian singer, pianist, guitarist and composer.

Life

Jobim, whose ancestors had emigrated from France to Brazil in the 17th century, spent his childhood in the district of Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro. He learned in his early childhood, to play guitar. From age 13 he studied piano. He became a student of Lúcia Branco, considered as the best piano teacher in Rio de Janeiro of the forties, and in 1941 was Hans -Joachim Koellreutter, who had also taught other great Brazilian composers, his teacher.

In 1946, Jobim began to study architecture, which he soon resigned to devote himself to music. He initially played afterwards at several nightclubs. It was here that the friendship with the pianist and poet Newton Mendonça. He also worked in the studios of the music label Continental, where he worked also arranged and with the composer and conductor Radamés Gnattali.

The first major success came Jobim with Billy Blanco, with whom he recorded the song Teresa da Praia 1954. Two years later, his friend Vinícius de Moraes asked him for the soundtrack of his work Orfeu da Conceição, which was later adapted by Marcel Camus under the name Orfeu Negro for the cinema. With this work, Tom Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes made ​​a breakthrough; some classics of Brazilian popular music, such as Se todos Fossem iguais a você or A felicidade date from this period.

By 1958, Jobim was then artistic director of the record label Odeon. During this time Elizete Cardoso took some songs with Vinícius de Moraes, which are still regarded as milestones in the development of Brazilian music, especially the plate Canção do amor demais.

In 1959, the previously unknown singer and guitarist João Gilberto Chega de saudade released his debut out with some of Jobim compositions, which included classics such as Desafinado or Samba de uma nota só made ​​in collaboration with Newton Mendonça next to the title track. Then Jobim was definitively as the most influential composer of his time in Brazil and one of the founders of Bossa Nova. His arrangements opened for the popular music of Brazil new ways and possibilities. Traditional Brazilian song forms, such as Choros or the Samba were mixed by the protagonists of Bossa Nova, especially with jazz elements. Jobim's pieces are mainly influenced by Pixinguinha, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Ernesto Nazareth, Sinho, Ary Barroso, Dorival Caymmi and as well as the music of Claude Debussy and the classic jazz music.

From the 1960s Jobim also managed the international break. The main event was undoubtedly the bossa nova 1962 festival at Carnegie Hall in New York, to the Jobim was invited along with a number of other Brazilian artists. The Bossa Nova became popular in North America and Jobim took on plates with Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra. In 1968, Jobim won together with Chico Buarque and the International Music Festival with the song Sabiá.

In the 70 years Jobim wrote the music for numerous films and television productions. His songs were performed by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Elis Regina. Was among the many partnerships for composing and playing music with Vinícius de Moraes most fertile, went out of her successful songs like Ela é carioca Garota de Ipanema or out, which is one of the most performed works in the world. The collaboration with Dolores Durán comes Por causa de você example, with Aluísio de Oliveira was Dindi.

The late work of Jobim, compared with the more sparsely orchestrated compositions of the early Bossa Nova Years, complex and processed many South American rhythms. Often plants are encountered that are inspired by the beauty of Brazilian nature.

Today officially carries the international airport of the city of Rio de Janeiro his name (Rio de Janeiro - Antonio Carlos Jobim airport).

Work

• " Água de beber "
• " Águas de Março " ( " Waters of March" )
• "A Felicidade " and "O nosso Amor " (both from the movie " Orfeu Negro" )
• " Chega de Saudade "
• " Chovendo na Roseira " ("Double Rainbow" )
• " Corcovado " ( " Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" )
• " Desafinado "
• " Dindi "
• " Favela "
• " Fotografia "
• " Garota de Ipanema " ( " The Girl from Ipanema " )
• " Inútil Paisagem " ( If You Never Come to Me )
• " Insensatez " ( " How Insensitive " )
• " Meditação "
• "Samba de uma nota só " ( " One Note Samba" )
• " Se todos Fossem iguais a você " ( Someone to Light Up My Life )
• "So Danco Samba"
• " Triste "
• " Vou te contar " (Wave)

Tributes to Jobim in music, film, theater

• Ryuichi Sakamoto, as Jobim pianist and film composer ( " The Last Emperor " ), adopted jointly with the Brazilian cellist and band leader Jacques Morel tree and his wife Paula Morel tree as a singer in 2002 a Jobim tribute CD to. Their title "Casa " refers to the house of the deceased, in which the three met as friends of the house.

• Heatmiser, a former American band from Portland / Oregon to Neil Gust and Elliott Smith, named for a song on the album " Cop And Speeder " by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

• Under the title "Celebrating Jobim " took place under the direction of Gilson Peranzzetta on 5 December 2007 in Essen and on December 7, 2007 in Cologne, a tribute to Jobim instead. Participants were the singer Joyce, Jaques Morel tree on cello, Nailor Proveta on clarinet and the WDR Big Band Cologne.

• Shortly before Jobim's death took the jazz musician Joe Henderson with Brazilian and American musicians, the tribute album Double Rainbow: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim.