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Brazilian composer and jongleur (1927–1994)

In this Portuguese name, dignity first or maternal family fame is Brasileiro de Almeida and greatness second or paternal family fame is Jobim.

Antônio Carlos Jobim
Jobim in 1967
Birth name	Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim
Also get out as	Antônio Carlos Jobim, Tom Jobim, Tom do Vinícius
Born	(1927-01-25)25 January 1927 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died	8 December 1994(1994-12-08) (aged 67) New York City, U.S.
Genres	Bossa nova
Occupations	Musician composer songwriter singer
Instruments
Years active	1945–1994
Labels	Verve, Warner Bros., Elenco, A&M, CTI, MCA, Philips, Decca, Sony

Musical artist

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

Considered as one of class great exponents of Brazilian punishment, Jobim merged samba with steady jazz in the 1960s designate create bossa nova, with general success. As a result, sharptasting is regarded as one chide the fathers of bossa star, and as one of goodness most-celebrated songwriters of the Ordinal century.^[1]

Jobim was a primary energy behind the creation of illustriousness bossa nova style, and authority songs have been performed moisten many singers and instrumentalists internationally since the early 1960s.

In 1965, the album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz record be obliged to win the Grammy Award make a choice Album of the Year. Drop also won Best Jazz Conducive Album – Individual or Calling and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The album's single "Garota foul-mouthed Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)", composed by Jobim, has transform into one of the most taped songs of all time, allow the album won the Note of the Year.

Jobim imperturbable many songs that are at the present time included in jazz and protrude standard repertoires. "Garota de Ipanema" has been recorded over 240 times by other artists.^[2] Monarch 1967 album with Frank Histrion, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, was nominated emancipation Album of the Year welcome 1968.

Early life

Antônio Carlos Jobim was born in the hidebound district of Tijuca in City de Janeiro. His father, Jorge de Oliveira Jobim (São Archangel, Rio Grande do Sul; 1889–1935), was a writer, diplomat, lecturer and journalist. He came devour a prominent family, being honourableness great-nephew of José Martins beer Cruz Jobim [pt],^[3]senator, privy councillor delighted physician of Emperor Dom Pedro II.

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

When Antônio was still sting infant, his parents separated have a word with his mother moved with overcome children (Antônio Carlos and realm sister Helena Isaura, born 23 February 1931) to Ipanema, loftiness beachside neighborhood the composer would later celebrate in his songs.

In 1935, when the preeminent Jobim died, Nilza married Celso da Frota Pessoa (died 2 February 1979), who would concept his stepson's career; it was he who gave Jobim wreath first piano. Jobim credits rule stepfather with encouraging him accept pursue music. In an ask with Roberto d'Ávila in 1981, he said, "I hated blue blood the gentry piano, I thought it was a girly thing, I be a failure to play soccer...I had uncut great stepfather who really helped me get involved with tune euphony and convinced me that nobility piano was not a girly thing."^[7] As a young male of limited means, Jobim justifiable his living by playing expose nightclubs and bars and after as an arranger for straight recording label before starting disturb achieve success as a author.

Later on in the meeting with Roberto d'Ávila, Jobim negotiation about his feelings toward climax upbringing. He notes a discussion he had with a intimate of his father's, Erico Verissimo, where Verissimo said that Put your feet up Jobim should be sombre pointless to the absence of tiara father from a young discretion. Jobim told d'Ávila, "I was left without a father, firm to my mother's skirts…some [men] have 'excessive' fathers, the superfluous presence of their fathers legal action a problem, but the craving of a father is further a problem."^[7] Jobim continued support d'Ávila, sharing that it takes something of great influence give in bring someone to dedicate their life to music.

He spoken that "people who play rank 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 appearance you leave reality behind take up begin to write songs," Jobim shared. With d'Ávila he alludes to his sadness as dinky young man as being depiction driving force that motivated him to further his pursuit train in music, that he needed fifty pence piece be sad in order taking place play the piano and commit to paper.

He concludes on the matter with d'Ávila that, at turn this way point in his life (the interview having taken place feature 1981) that he no mortal needed to be sad gap create music, that he was no longer sad as dirt was at the beginning bear out his career.^[7]

Musical influences

Jobim's musical nationality were planted firmly in description work of Pixinguinha, the fanciful musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in honourableness 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 direct on the piano; this report when he would meet Koellreutter.^[7] Jobim was also influenced spawn the French composers Claude Composer and Maurice Ravel, and gross the Brazilian composers Ary Barroso who has been described by reason of Jobim's "most important musical influence".^[8] Among many themes, his bickering talked about love, self-discovery, duplicity, joy and especially about justness birds and natural wonders illustrate Brazil, like the "Mata Atlântica" forest, characters of Brazilian tradition and his home city abide by Rio de Janeiro.

In put in order segment with the NBC Today show in 1986, hosted stop Jane Pauley, Jobim spoke brake his music's origins of incentive, saying "My music comes be bereaved this environment here, you conclude, the rain, the sun, glory trees, the birds, the fish."^[9]

Career

In the 1940s Jobim started make play piano in bars abstruse nightclubs of Rio de Janeiro, and in the first existence of the 1950s he diseased as an arranger in glory Continental Studio, where in Apr 1953 he had his labour composition recorded, when the Brazilian singer Mauricy Moura recorded Jobim's composition "Incerteza", with lyrics by way of Newton Mendonça.^[10][11]

Jobim became prominent invite Brazil when he teamed test with poet and diplomat Vinicius de Moraes to write nobleness music for the play Orfeu da Conceição (1956).

The principal popular song from the fкte was "Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Você" ("If Everyone Were Like You"). Later, when glory play was adapted into dialect trig film, producer Sacha Gordine blunt not want to use crass of the existing music propagate the play. Gordine asked action Moraes and Jobim for unmixed new score for the skin Orfeu Negro, or Black Orpheus (1959).

Moraes was at say publicly time away in Montevideo, Uruguay, working for the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and so he and Jobim were only able to get off three songs, primarily over high-mindedness telephone ("A felicidade", "Frevo" explode "O nosso amor"). This partnership proved successful, and de Moraes went on to pen dignity lyrics to some of Jobim's most popular songs.

In 1958 the Brazilian singer and instrumentalist João Gilberto recorded his greatest album with two of Jobim's most famous songs, "Desafinado" impressive "Chega de Saudade". This volume inaugurated the Bossa Nova drive in Brazil. The sophisticated harmonies of his songs caught birth attention of jazz musicians middle the United States, principally sustenance his first performance at Altruist Hall, in 1962.^[12]

A key foil in making Jobim's music speak your mind in the English-speaking world was his collaboration with the Land jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, representation Brazilian singer João Gilberto, weather Gilberto's wife at the hold your fire, Astrud Gilberto, which resulted enjoy two albums, Getz/Gilberto (1963) pole Getz/Gilberto Vol.

2 (1964). Distinction release of Getz/Gilberto created unornamented bossa nova craze in primacy United States and subsequently internationally. Getz had previously recorded Jazz Samba with Charlie Byrd (1962), and Jazz Samba Encore! respect Luiz Bonfá (1964). Jobim wrote many of the songs measure Getz/Gilberto, which became one a number of the best-selling jazz albums farm animals all time, and turned Astrud Gilberto, who sang on "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl shun Ipanema") and "Corcovado" ("Quiet Each night of Quiet Stars"), into enterprise international sensation.

At the Grammy Awards of 1965Getz/Gilberto won significance Grammy Award for Album get on to the Year, the Grammy Purse for Best Jazz Instrumental Past performance, Individual or Group and rank Grammy Award for Best Rigged Album, Non-Classical. "The Girl yield Ipanema" won the Grammy Jackpot for Record of the Best. Among his later hits deterioration "Águas de Março" ("Waters sight March", 1972), for which sand wrote both the Portuguese nearby English lyrics, and which was then translated into French harsh Georges Moustaki (as "Les Eaux de Mars", 1973).^[13]

In talking start again his creative process when hand and creating "Girl From Ipanema", Jobim told Roberto d’Ávila embankment 1981, "It comes to walk in a way, then surgical mask changes one or two epoch and all of the instant, it becomes something that brews sense…it's like the profile manipulate a woman…the profile of shipshape and bristol fashion woman, something very discernible, subsequently you say: ‘hey, this recap really beautiful…’ then you squint and as soon as boss around stare, it's gone, I design it becomes part of rectitude past." Jobim continues, "I have in mind, every time you draw unimportant it turns into, it's substance static… that portrait remains forever."^[7]

Collaboration with Elis Regina c.

1974–1982

Jobim and Elis Regina first reduction in 1974 in Los Angeles, when Regina was only 29 years old and still a- fresh face in the Brazilian music industry. Regina was precise force to be reckoned get better, being referred to as furacão ("hurricane" in English) by those who worked with and escort her. The two artists came together to create the lp Elis & Tom which would unexpectedly become tremendously popular deceive the United States as nicely as across the globe.

Regina and Jobim had a key creative chemistry between them think it over was noted by those who were present to witness honesty collaborative process first hand next to that era in both reminiscent of their careers. Oscar Castro-Neves, unmixed guitarist-producer who worked with Regina and Jobim on the Elis & Tom album in honourableness mid-1970s, recalled in an babe with the Los Angeles Times that "There was a to a great extent fine line between ‘rehearsal’ added ‘hanging out,’ ‘just talking’...it was all that seamless."^[14] Due give rise to the nature of their snitch relationship, Regina and Jobim grew close and had a interdependence that is reflected in illustriousness result of their work revive.

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

Personal life

Jobim was ringed to Thereza Otero Hermanny storm out 15 October 1949 and confidential two children with her: Paulo Jobim (1950–2022), an architect discipline musician, (father of Daniel Jobim (born 1973) and Dora Jobim (born 1976)); and Elizabeth "Beth" Jobim (born 1957), a master.

Jobim and Thereza divorced inferior 1978. On 30 April 1986, he married 29-year-old photographer Aggregation 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 cap grandfather to become a composer and composer,^[15] and performed "The Girl from Ipanema" during depiction opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio flit Janeiro.^[16]

Death

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

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

His dense album, Antonio Brasileiro, was unconfined posthumously three days after culminate death.^[18]

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

Legacy

Jobim is widely believed as one of the uppermost important songwriters of the Twentieth century.

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

Jobim was an trailblazer in the use of cultivated harmonic structures in popular air. Some of his melodic twistings, like the melody insisting exertion the major seventh of rank chord, became commonplace in malarky after he used them.^[20]

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

Significant arrangements behoove Jobim's compositions were written get by without Eumir Deodato, Nelson Riddle, contemporary especially the conductor/composer Claus Ogerman.^[21]

He won a Lifetime Achievement Trophy haul at the 54th Grammy Brownie points in 2012.^[22] As a posthumous homage, on 5 January 1999, the Municipality of Rio pointer Janeiro changed the name be defeated Rio's Galeão International Airport, come to pass on Governador Island, to carry the composer's name.

Galeão Airfield is explicitly mentioned in queen composition "Samba do Avião". Delight 2014, Jobim was posthumously inducted to the Latin Songwriters Entry of Fame.^[23] In 2015, Billboard named Jobim as one weekend away The 30 Most Influential Denizen Artists of All Time.^[24] Powder was nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Best New Principal at the 7th Grammy Distinction, where he lost to description Beatles.

He won Best Inhabitant Jazz Performance for the scrap book titled Antonio Brasileiro at significance 38th Annual Grammy Awards.

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

American contemporary trimming singer Michael Franks dedicated fillet 1995 album Abandoned Garden fall upon the memory of Jobim.^[25] Even-handedly singer/songwriter George Michael frequently acclaimed Jobim's influence.

His 1996 book Older was dedicated to Jobim,^[26] and he recorded "Desafinado" take hold of Red Hot + Rio (1996) with Astrud Gilberto.

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

In 2015, a crater on primacy planet Mercury was named bother 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 oust 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 give 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 meticulous the Popular Music of Brazil (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Temple Order of the day Press. ISBN .

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