![]() You are not the only one who wants to book a plane ticket to Rio right now. That’s Saudade, the Portuguese and Brazilian concept of deep longing when separated from the ones you love. It’s just about admiring beauty, “Ahhhhhhhh.” And it captures the melancholy feeling of knowing that your youth will eventually fade away with time. The song doesn’t get into the complexities of relationship. It puts you on Ipanema (the famous Rio beach) in summer with Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain) overlooking it all. This is why.īoth the words and the music of the song perfectly capture the feeling of being young and hanging out on the beach. Our friend, renowned Brazilian adman Washington Olivetto who famously puts Brazilian music in ads, told us that Brazilian music is the world’s most popular music after the Beatles. “ Getz/Gilberto,” the Stan Getz recording with João Gilberto and female vocals by Astrud Gilberto became a global hit in 1965, won multiple Grammy Awards and remains one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. Jobim is most famous for writing the music to “Garota de Ipanema” ( The Girl From Ipanema) with Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes in 1962. This historic concert really brought bossa nova to New York City and the world.Ī later Carnegie Hall tribute to the master Stan Getz The Girl From Ipanema Antônio Carlos Jobim at Carnegie Hall 1962 It included Jobim classics “Desafinado” and “Chega de Saudade.” Samba and jazz were mixing in Brazil for a long time, but this album defined bossa nova. João Gilberto’s first album “Chega de Saudade” defined the bossa nova singing style in 1959. We’ve also read of João hiding in the family bathroom to practice because his father was against him singing. He then advanced recording technology by switching from one microphone to one each for the voice and guitar. João developed his style to suit the limits of microphones at the time. The effect gives you the sense of watching the waves coming in from the sea. He stretches his words over rhythms in the way that New York rappers will do later. The style also emphasizes lip movements to shape the sound which is soothing like the Portuguese language.īut João creates interest by singing a little before or behind the beat. The whisper is in the front of the mouth while vibrato comes from the back. His almost whispered style of singing avoids vibrato so it becomes almost spoken word. João, whose style of singing defined bossa nova, was never out of tune, although he was never quite in tune either. We are jealous that one Portuguese word could carry so much meaning. “ Desafinado” means slightly out of tune. Jobim became part of this group of important Brazilian artists and jazz artists, mostly out of New York City. Today it is remembered mostly for its soundtrack. It won the Cannes Palme d’Or in 1959 and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1960. The movie by French director Marcel Camus is famous. When the play became the now legendary film “ Orfeu Negro” (Black Orpheus), the two wrote three songs, mostly over the telephone. It set the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in the favelas (barrios) of Rio. His breakthrough was teaming with lyricist Vinícius de Moraes to score the play “ Orfeu da Conceição” in 1956. Jobim starting playing night clubs in Rio in the 1940s. We make the mistake of naming them and claiming them as our own, but big human culture is universal. Throughout history big human ideas often appear in different parts of the world around the same time. American artists hear Latin American and Caribbean music and say that’s our music. Latin American and Caribbean artists hear jazz and say that’s our music. Study Jobim and you’ll not only learn bossa nova, you’ll learn jazz. “Tom” Jobim is one of the primary artists behind the blending of samba and jazz which we call bossa nova. Remember Antônio Carlos Jobim, one of the principle founders of bossa nova, who was born in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 25, 1927.
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