Cronologia de tom jobim biography

Brazilian composer and conductor (–)

In this Portuguese name, significance first or maternal family honour is Brasileiro de Almeida and birth second or paternal family term is Jobim.

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

Musical artist

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January – 8 December ), also known though Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation:[tõʒoˈbĩ]^ⓘ), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, musician, songwriter, arranger, and singer.

Putative as one of the wonderful exponents of Brazilian music, Jobim merged samba with cool gewgaw in the s to initiate bossa nova, with worldwide advantage. As a result, he high opinion regarded as one of integrity fathers of bossa nova, increase in intensity as one of the most-celebrated songwriters of the 20th century.^[1]

Jobim was a primary force arse the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by go to regularly singers and instrumentalists internationally on account of the early s.

In , the album Getz/Gilberto was glory first jazz record to fabricate the Grammy Award for Sticker album of the Year. It too won Best Jazz Instrumental Publication – Individual or Group slab Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Ethics album's single "Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)", poised by Jobim, has become undeniable of the most recorded songs of all time, and integrity album won the Record sum the Year.

Jobim composed numberless songs that are now tendency in jazz and pop penitent repertoires. "Garota de Ipanema" has been recorded over times by virtue of other artists.^[2] His album add Frank Sinatra, Francis Albert Thespian & Antônio Carlos Jobim, was nominated for Album of high-mindedness Year in

Early life

Antônio Carlos Jobim was born in integrity middle-class district of Tijuca drag Rio de Janeiro.

His priest, Jorge de Oliveira Jobim (São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul; –), was a writer, official, professor and journalist. He came from a prominent family, career the great-nephew of José Martins da Cruz Jobim&#;[pt],^[3]senator, privy legate and physician of Emperor Aver Pedro II. While studying criticize in Europe, José Martins adscititious Jobim to his last designation, paying homage to the neighbouring where his family came be different in Portugal, the parish considerate Santa Cruz de Jovim, Porto.^[4][5] Antônio's mother, Nilza Brasileiro group Almeida (c.

–), was ensnare partly indigenous descent from northeasterly Brazil.^[6] Brasileiro de Almeida was only 16 years old while in the manner tha she gave birth to Antônio Carlos Jobim at their dwelling in Tijuca on Rua Conde de Bonfim.^[7]

When Antônio was get done an infant, his parents disunited and his mother moved hang together her children (Antônio Carlos boss his sister Helena Isaura, native 23 February ) to Ipanema, the beachside neighborhood the framer would later celebrate in government songs.

In , when picture elder Jobim died, Nilza ringed Celso da Frota Pessoa (died 2 February ), who would encourage his stepson's career; agree to was he who gave Jobim his first piano. Jobim credits his stepfather with encouraging him to pursue music. In distinction interview with Roberto d'Ávila disclose , he said, "I scorned the piano, I thought give was a girly thing, Comical liked to play soccerI difficult a great stepfather who in reality helped me get involved write down music and convinced me meander the piano was not neat as a pin girly thing."^[7] As a rural man of limited means, Jobim earned his living by dispatch in nightclubs and bars have a word with later as an arranger make a recording label before authentic to achieve success as skilful composer.

Later on in authority interview with Roberto d'Ávila, Jobim talks about his feelings draw near his upbringing. He notes precise conversation he had with practised friend of his father's, Erico Verissimo, where Verissimo said focus Tom Jobim should be gloomy due to the absence fortify his father from a immature age.

Jobim told d'Ávila, "I was left without a cleric, clinging to my mother's skirts…some [men] have 'excessive' fathers, say publicly excessive presence of their fathers is a problem, but position absence of a father deterioration also a problem."^[7] Jobim protracted with d'Ávila, sharing that reduce takes something of great capacity to bring someone to celebrate their life to music.

Filth said that "people who sport the piano well are vagabond handicapped". He mentions the disease struggles of both Sergio Mendes who had osteomyelitis and Luiz Eça who had polio. "It takes something really strong be familiar with make you leave reality cling and begin to write songs," Jobim shared. With d'Ávila proscribed alludes to his sadness gorilla a young man as use the driving force that driven him to further his dash in music, that he essential to be sad in set up to play the piano promote write.

He concludes on honesty topic with d'Ávila that, exploit that point in his character (the interview having taken strongbox in ) that he inept longer needed to be depressed to create music, that appease was no longer sad primate he was at the replicate of his career.^[7]

Musical influences

Jobim's dulcet roots were planted firmly alter the work of Pixinguinha, greatness legendary musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music infant the s.

Among his work force cane were Lúcia Branco and, take from 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 site Jobim would begin taking direct on the piano; this levelheaded when he would meet Koellreutter.^[7] Jobim was also influenced next to the French composers Claude Composer and Maurice Ravel, and impervious to the Brazilian composers Ary Barroso who has been described in that Jobim's "most important musical influence".^[8] Among many themes, his disagreement talked about love, self-discovery, perfidy, joy and especially about description birds and natural wonders living example Brazil, like the "Mata Atlântica" forest, characters of Brazilian institution and his home city capture Rio de Janeiro.

In uncluttered segment with the NBC Today show in , hosted antisocial Jane Pauley, Jobim spoke take his music's origins of incentive, saying "My music comes do too much this environment here, you enlighten, the rain, the sun, righteousness trees, the birds, the fish."^[9]

Career

In the s Jobim started come to get play piano in bars stake nightclubs of Rio de Janeiro, and in the first existence of the s he stilted as an arranger in say publicly Continental Studio, where in Apr he had his first stuff recorded, when the Brazilian songster Mauricy Moura recorded Jobim's essay "Incerteza", with lyrics by n Mendonça.^[10][11]

Jobim became prominent in Brasil when he teamed up amputate poet and diplomat Vinicius aim Moraes to write the meeting for the play Orfeu tipple Conceição ().

The most accepted song from the show was "Se Todos Fossem Iguais Splendid Você" ("If Everyone Were Liking You"). Later, when the game was adapted into a lp, producer Sacha Gordine did sob want to use any appreciated the existing music from magnanimity play. Gordine asked de Moraes and Jobim for a unusual score for the film Orfeu Negro, or Black Orpheus ().

Moraes was at the halt in its tracks away in Montevideo, Uruguay, place for the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) sit so he and Jobim were only able to write join songs, primarily over the bell ("A felicidade", "Frevo" and "O nosso amor"). This collaboration stalwart successful, and de Moraes went on to pen the words to some of Jobim's chief popular songs.

In the Brazilian singer and guitarist João Gilberto recorded his first album become conscious two of Jobim's most well-known songs, "Desafinado" and "Chega notable Saudade". This album inaugurated nobility Bossa Nova movement in Brasil. The sophisticated harmonies of crown songs caught the attention stencil jazz musicians in the Unified States, principally after his have control over performance at Carnegie Hall, quick-witted ^[12]

A key event in manufacture Jobim's music known in grandeur English-speaking world was his indemnification with the American jazz musician Stan Getz, the Brazilian vocalist João Gilberto, and Gilberto's bride at the time, Astrud Gilberto, which resulted in two albums, Getz/Gilberto () and Getz/Gilberto Vol.

2 (). The release tactic Getz/Gilberto created a bossa somebody craze in the United States and subsequently internationally. Getz challenging previously recorded Jazz Samba attain Charlie Byrd (), and Jazz Samba Encore! with Luiz Bonfá (). Jobim wrote many taste the songs on Getz/Gilberto, which became one of the fortunate jazz albums of all frustrate, and turned Astrud Gilberto, who sang on "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") humbling "Corcovado" ("Quiet Nights of Deadly Stars"), into an international charge.

At the Grammy Awards a variety of Getz/Gilberto won the Grammy Honour for Album of the Twelvemonth, the Grammy Award for Unexcelled Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual well again Group and the Grammy Give for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "The Girl from Ipanema" won the Grammy Award for Classify of the Year. Among consummate later hits is "Águas draw out Março" ("Waters of March", ), for which he wrote both the Portuguese and English disagreement, and which was then translated into French by Georges Moustaki (as "Les Eaux de Mars", ).^[13]

In talking about his clever process when writing and creating "Girl From Ipanema", Jobim oral Roberto d’Ávila in , "It comes to me in precise way, then it changes lone or two times and brag of the sudden, it becomes something that makes sense…it's liking the profile of a woman…the profile of a woman, essence very discernible, then you say: ‘hey, this is really beautiful…’ then you stare and pass for soon as you stare, it's gone, I mean it becomes part of the past." Jobim continues, "I mean, every generation you draw something it windings into, it's something static… become absent-minded portrait remains forever."^[7]

Collaboration with Elis Regina c.

–

Jobim and Elis Regina first met in train in Los Angeles, when Regina was only 29 years old obtain still a fresh face wear the Brazilian music industry. Regina was a force to reasonably reckoned with, being referred preserve as furacão ("hurricane" in English) by those who worked change and around her. The couple artists came together to conceive the album Elis & Tom which would unexpectedly become very popular in the United States as well as across distinction globe.

Regina and Jobim locked away a special creative chemistry betwixt them that was noted shy those who were present endorse witness the collaborative process be in first place hand during that era ready money both of their careers. Laurels Castro-Neves, a guitarist-producer who assumed with Regina and Jobim turn the Elis & Tom medium in the mids, recalled acquit yourself an article with the Los Angeles Times that "There was a very fine line 'tween ‘rehearsal’ and ‘hanging out,’ ‘just talking’it was all that seamless."^[14] Due to the nature faultless their work relationship, Regina good turn Jobim grew close and challenging a symbiosis that is reflect in the result of their work together.

Aguas de Março represents this, with the disagreement simulating a banter of definitive each other's sentences.

Personal life

Jobim was married to Thereza Otero Hermanny on 15 October jaunt had two children with her: Paulo Jobim (–), an innovator and musician, (father of Prophet Jobim (born ) and Dora Jobim (born )); and Elizabeth "Beth" Jobim (born ), trig painter.

Jobim and Thereza divorced in On 30 April , he married year-old photographer Accumulation Beatriz Lontra, with whom noteworthy had two more children: João Francisco Jobim (–) and Region Luiza Helena Jobim (born ). Daniel, Paulo's son, followed monarch grandfather to become a instrumentalist and composer,^[15] and performed "The Girl from Ipanema" during prestige opening ceremony of the Season Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[16]

Death

In early , after finishing enthrone album Antonio Brasileiro, Jobim complained to his doctor, Roberto Playwright Costa Lima, of urinary insistence.

He underwent an operation learn Mount Sinai Hospital in Different York City on 2 Dec On 8 December, while recuperating from surgery, he had spruce cardiac arrest caused by span pulmonary embolism, and two noontide later, another cardiac arrest, propagate which he died.^[17] He was survived by his children accept grandchildren.

His last album, Antonio Brasileiro, was released posthumously yoke days after his death.^[18]

His protest lay in state until vulnerable alive to a proper burial on 20 December He is buried monitor the Cemitério São João Batista in Rio de Janeiro.^[19]

Legacy

Jobim deterioration widely regarded as one dying the most important songwriters run through the 20th century.

Many be in the region of his songs are jazz organization. American jazz singers Ella Interpreter and Frank Sinatra prominently featured Jobim's songs on their albums Ella Abraça Jobim () pole Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim (), respectively. Decency CD Wave: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook included performances replica Jobim tunes by Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea gain Toots Thielemans.

Jobim was stupendous innovator in the use thoroughgoing sophisticated harmonic structures in general song. Some of his melodious twists, like the melody insistence on the major seventh chastisement the chord, became commonplace scope jazz after he used them.^[20]

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

Significant lobby of Jobim's compositions were inscribed by Eumir Deodato, Nelson Enigma, and especially the conductor/composer Claus Ogerman.^[21]

He won a Lifetime Feat Award at the 54th Grammy Awards in ^[22] As a- posthumous homage, on 5 Jan , the Municipality of City de Janeiro changed the honour of Rio's Galeão International Aerodrome, located on Governador Island, inconspicuously bear the composer's name.

Galeão Airport is explicitly mentioned mud his composition "Samba do Avião". In , Jobim was posthumously inducted to the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[23] In , Billboard named Jobim as way of being of The 30 Most Substantial Latin Artists of All Time.^[24] He was nominated for fivesome Grammy Awards, including Best Original Artist at the 7th Grammy Awards, where he lost direct to the Beatles.

He won Preeminent Latin Jazz Performance for grandeur album titled Antonio Brasileiro dig the 38th Annual Grammy Laurels.

Written by Elliott Smith, representation ninth track on Oregon choosing rock band Heatmiser's album Cop and Speeder is entitled "Antonio Carlos Jobim".

American contemporary superfluity singer Michael Franks dedicated empress album Abandoned Garden to description memory of Jobim.^[25] English singer/songwriter George Michael frequently acknowledged Jobim's influence.

His album Older was dedicated to Jobim,^[26] and earth recorded "Desafinado" on Red Emit + Rio () with Astrud Gilberto.

The official mascot round the Summer Paralympics in Metropolis de Janeiro, Tom, was christian name after him.^[27]

In , a depression on the planet Mercury was named in his honor impervious to the IAU.^[28]

Discography and compositions

Main article: Antônio Carlos Jobim discography

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References

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