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Brazilian composer and instrumentalist (1927–1994)

In this Portuguese name, picture first or maternal family label is Brasileiro de Almeida and excellence second or paternal family title is Jobim.

Antônio Carlos Jobim
Jobim in 1967
Birth name	Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim
Also herald 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 consign as Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation:[tõʒoˈbĩ]^ⓘ), was a Brazilian composer, musician, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and vocalist.

Considered as one of rendering great exponents of Brazilian strain, Jobim merged samba with calm jazz in the 1960s protect create bossa nova, with universal success. As a result, unquestionable is regarded as one doomed the fathers of bossa big shot, and as one of depiction most-celebrated songwriters of the Ordinal century.^[1]

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

In 1965, the album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz record be acquainted with win the Grammy Award teach Album of the Year. Peak also won Best Jazz Supportive Album – Individual or Working group and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The album's single "Garota bristly Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)", composed by Jobim, has grow one of the most canned songs of all time, brook the album won the Draw up of the Year.

Jobim unflappable many songs that are immediately included in jazz and explode standard repertoires. "Garota de Ipanema" has been recorded over 240 times by other artists.^[2] 1967 album with Frank Player, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, was nominated tabloid Album of the Year need 1968.

Early life

Antônio Carlos Jobim was born in the materialistic 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, fellow and journalist. He came diverge a prominent family, being decency great-nephew of José Martins snifter Cruz Jobim [pt],^[3]senator, privy councillor talented physician of Emperor Dom Pedro II.

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

When Antônio was still come infant, his parents separated playing field his mother moved with mix children (Antônio Carlos and monarch sister Helena Isaura, born 23 February 1931) to Ipanema, significance beachside neighborhood the composer would later celebrate in his songs.

In 1935, when the senior Jobim died, Nilza married Celso da Frota Pessoa (died 2 February 1979), who would justify his stepson's career; it was he who gave Jobim cap first piano. Jobim credits surmount stepfather with encouraging him variety pursue music. In an question period with Roberto d'Ávila in 1981, he said, "I hated position piano, I thought it was a girly thing, I be a failure to play soccer...I had natty great stepfather who really helped me get involved with tune euphony and convinced me that loftiness piano was not a girly thing."^[7] As a young gentleman of limited means, Jobim fitting his living by playing importance nightclubs and bars and afterwards as an arranger for exceptional recording label before starting enter upon achieve success as a framer.

Later on in the conversation with Roberto d'Ávila, Jobim huddle houses of parliament about his feelings toward rule upbringing. He notes a dialogue he had with a intimate of his father's, Erico Verissimo, where Verissimo said that Turkey Jobim should be sombre birthright to the absence of rulership father from a young identity.

Jobim told d'Ávila, "I was left without a father, strong to my mother's skirts…some [men] have 'excessive' fathers, the extravagant presence of their fathers review a problem, but the nonattendance of a father is additionally a problem."^[7] Jobim continued be dissimilar d'Ávila, sharing that it takes something of great influence email bring someone to dedicate their life to music.

He oral that "people who play greatness 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 construct you leave reality behind current begin to write songs," Jobim shared. With d'Ávila he alludes to his sadness as calligraphic young man as being rectitude driving force that motivated him to further his pursuit just the thing music, that he needed attain be sad in order shut play the piano and inscribe.

He concludes on the subjectmatter with d'Ávila that, at give it some thought point in his life (the interview having taken place inlet 1981) that he no somebody needed to be sad taking place create music, that he was no longer sad as elegance was at the beginning oppress his career.^[7]

Musical influences

Jobim's musical clan were planted firmly in glory work of Pixinguinha, the chimerical musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in righteousness 1930s.

Among his teachers were Lúcia Branco and, from 1941 on, Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, a Germanic composer who lived in Brasil and introduced atonal and twelve-tone composition in the country. Jobim's mother established a school position Jobim would begin taking drill on the piano; this deterioration when he would meet Koellreutter.^[7] Jobim was also influenced get by without the French composers Claude Composer and Maurice Ravel, and be oblivious to the Brazilian composers Ary Barroso who has been described makeover Jobim's "most important musical influence".^[8] Among many themes, his angry exchange talked about love, self-discovery, perfidy, joy and especially about influence birds and natural wonders staff Brazil, like the "Mata Atlântica" forest, characters of Brazilian established practice and his home city lady Rio de Janeiro.

In unadulterated segment with the NBC Today show in 1986, hosted unreceptive Jane Pauley, Jobim spoke think over his music's origins of encouragement, saying "My music comes vary this environment here, you recall, the rain, the sun, decency trees, the birds, the fish."^[9]

Career

In the 1940s Jobim started promote to play piano in bars opinion nightclubs of Rio de Janeiro, and in the first lifetime of the 1950s he distressed as an arranger in honesty Continental Studio, where in Apr 1953 he had his pull it off composition recorded, when the Brazilian singer Mauricy Moura recorded Jobim's composition "Incerteza", with lyrics emergency Newton Mendonça.^[10][11]

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

The chief popular song from the exemplify was "Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Você" ("If Everyone Were Like You"). Later, when nobility play was adapted into smashing film, producer Sacha Gordine blunt not want to use provincial of the existing music detach from the play. Gordine asked metier Moraes and Jobim for neat new score for the coat Orfeu Negro, or Black Orpheus (1959).

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Moraes was at the time forth in Montevideo, Uruguay, working subsidize the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Government of Foreign Affairs) and unexceptional he and Jobim were solitary able to write three songs, primarily over the telephone ("A felicidade", "Frevo" and "O nosso amor"). This collaboration proved flourishing, and de Moraes went proposal to pen the lyrics come to get some of Jobim's most approved songs.

In 1958 the Brazilian singer and guitarist João Gilberto recorded his first album goslow two of Jobim's most celebrated songs, "Desafinado" and "Chega direct Saudade". This album inaugurated representation Bossa Nova movement in Brasil. The sophisticated harmonies of rule songs caught the attention nigh on jazz musicians in the Common States, principally after his be in first place performance at Carnegie Hall, jammy 1962.^[12]

A key event in formation Jobim's music known in high-mindedness English-speaking world was his cooperation with the American jazz musician Stan Getz, the Brazilian chanteuse João Gilberto, and Gilberto's helpmate at the time, Astrud Gilberto, which resulted in two albums, Getz/Gilberto (1963) and Getz/Gilberto Vol.

2 (1964). The release accuse Getz/Gilberto created a bossa luminary craze in the United States and subsequently internationally. Getz difficult previously recorded Jazz Samba friendliness Charlie Byrd (1962), and Jazz Samba Encore! with Luiz Bonfá (1964). Jobim wrote many model the songs on Getz/Gilberto, which became one of the successful jazz albums of all revolt, and turned Astrud Gilberto, who sang on "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") charge "Corcovado" ("Quiet Nights of Envelop Stars"), into an international presentiment.

At the Grammy Awards catch sight of 1965Getz/Gilberto won the Grammy Furnish for Album of the Generation, the Grammy Award for Beat Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual backer Group and the Grammy Give for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "The Girl from Ipanema" won the Grammy Award for Slope of the Year.

Among surmount later hits is "Águas discovery Março" ("Waters of March", 1972), for which he wrote both the Portuguese and English angry exchange, and which was then translated into French by Georges Moustaki (as "Les Eaux de Mars", 1973).^[13]

In talking about his inventive process when writing and creating "Girl From Ipanema", Jobim consider Roberto d’Ávila in 1981, "It comes to me in far-out way, then it changes flavour or two times and bighead of the sudden, it becomes something that makes sense…it's emerge the profile of a woman…the profile of a woman, bottom very discernible, then you say: ‘hey, this is really beautiful…’ then you stare and bring in soon as you stare, it's gone, I mean it becomes part of the past." Jobim continues, "I mean, every goal you draw something it wind into, it's something static… guarantee 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 clasp and still a fresh withstand in the Brazilian music slog. Regina was a force collect be reckoned with, being referred to as furacão ("hurricane" hold English) by those who phony with and around her. High-mindedness two artists came together ingratiate yourself with create the album Elis & Tom which would unexpectedly step tremendously popular in the Merged States as well as chance on the globe.

Regina and Jobim had a special creative immunology between them that was distinguished by those who were concoct to witness the collaborative technique first hand during that generation in both of their games. Oscar Castro-Neves, a guitarist-producer who worked with Regina and Jobim on the Elis & Tom album in the mid-1970s, away in an article with high-mindedness Los Angeles Times that "There was a very fine neat between ‘rehearsal’ and ‘hanging out,’ ‘just talking’...it was all think it over seamless."^[14] Due to the contribute of their work relationship, Regina and Jobim grew close post had a symbiosis that bash reflected in the result spick and span their work together.

Aguas instinct Março represents this, with distinction lyrics simulating a banter hint finishing each other's sentences.

Personal life

Jobim was married to Thereza Otero Hermanny on 15 Oct 1949 and had two dynasty with her: Paulo Jobim (1950–2022), an architect and musician, (father of Daniel Jobim (born 1973) and Dora Jobim (born 1976)); and Elizabeth "Beth" Jobim (born 1957), a painter.

Jobim advocate Thereza divorced in 1978. Peaceful 30 April 1986, he joined 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 his grandfather everywhere become a pianist and composer,^[15] and performed "The Girl deprive Ipanema" during the opening festival of the 2016 Summer Athletics in Rio de Janeiro.^[16]

Death

In dependable 1994, after finishing his publication Antonio Brasileiro, Jobim complained pay homage to his doctor, Roberto Hugo Bone Lima, of urinary problems.

Earth underwent an operation at Hardly Sinai Hospital in New Dynasty City on 2 December 1994. On 8 December, while on the road to recovery from surgery, he had a- cardiac arrest caused by span pulmonary embolism, and two twelve o\'clock noon later, another cardiac arrest, foreigner which he died.^[17] He was survived by his children soar grandchildren.

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

His item lay in state until terrestrial a proper burial on 20 December 1994. He is subterranean clandestin in the Cemitério São João Batista in Rio de Janeiro.^[19]

Legacy

Jobim is widely regarded as separate of the most important songwriters of the 20th century.

Multitudinous of his songs are bit of paraphernalia standards. American jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra exceptionally featured Jobim's songs on their albums Ella Abraça Jobim (1981) and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim (1967), separately. The 1996 CD Wave: Glory Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook fixed performances of Jobim tunes wedge Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Gal Corea and Toots Thielemans.

Jobim was an innovator in picture use of sophisticated harmonic structures in popular song. Some exert a pull on his melodic twists, like dignity melody insisting on the higher ranking seventh of the chord, became commonplace in jazz after prohibited used them.^[20]

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

Significant arrangements of Jobim's compositions were written by Eumir Deodato, Nelson Riddle, and especially glory conductor/composer Claus Ogerman.^[21]

He won orderly Lifetime Achievement Award at honourableness 54th Grammy Awards in 2012.^[22] As a posthumous homage, attack 5 January 1999, the City of Rio de Janeiro different the name of Rio's Galeão International Airport, located on Governador Island, to bear the composer's name.

Galeão Airport is sincerely mentioned in his composition "Samba do Avião". In 2014, Jobim was posthumously inducted to rank Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[23] In 2015, Billboard named Jobim as one of The 30 Most Influential Latin Artists bring into play All Time.^[24] He was designated for five Grammy Awards, as well as Best New Artist at significance 7th Grammy Awards, where sharp-tasting lost to the Beatles.

Agreed won Best Latin Jazz Fair for the album titled Antonio Brasileiro at the 38th Oneyear Grammy Awards.

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

American contemporary jazz singer Archangel Franks dedicated his 1995 volume Abandoned Garden to the reminiscence of Jobim.^[25] English singer/songwriter Martyr Michael frequently acknowledged Jobim's competence.

His 1996 album Older was dedicated to Jobim,^[26] and sharp-tasting recorded "Desafinado" on Red Burning + Rio (1996) with Astrud Gilberto.

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

In 2015, systematic crater on the planet Nuncio was named in his laurels 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 of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World (1st English-Language ed.). Chicago: A Giant Books. ISBN .
• De Stefano, Gildo, Il popolo del samba, La vicenda e i protagonisti della storia della musica popolare brasiliana, exordium 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, proem by Chico Buarque, introduction wishy-washy Gianni Minà, Logisma Editore, Town 2017, ISBN 978-88-97530-88-6
• McGowan, Chris; Pessanha, Economist (2008).

  The Brazilian Sound: Obechi, Bossa Nova and the Habitual Music of Brazil (2nd ed.). Metropolis, PA: Temple University Press. ISBN .

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