Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also Tom Jobim , (born January 25, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro , † December 8, 1994 in New York ) was a Brazilian singer , pianist , guitarist and composer . He was one of the founders of Bossa Nova .

Life

Antônio Carlos Jobim, whose ancestors immigrated from France to Brazil in the 17th century, was born in the Tijuca district and spent his childhood in Ipanema . He learned to play the guitar in early childhood. From the age of 13 he learned the piano. He became a student of Lúcia Branco , who was considered the best piano teacher in Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s, and from 1941 Hans-Joachim Koellreutter , who had also taught other great Brazilian composers, was his teacher.

In 1946 Jobim began to study architecture, which he soon gave up to devote himself to music. He then played in various night clubs. It was here that the friendship with the pianist and poet Newton Mendonça began . He also worked in the studios of the music label Continental , where he also arranged and worked with the composer and conductor Radamés Gnattali .

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

Tom Jobim and Chico Buarque at the Festival Internacional da Canção Popular (FIC), 1968

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

In 1959 brought the previously unknown singer and guitarist João Gilberto made his debut Chega de saudade with some Jobim compositions out, in addition to the title track also classics like that in collaboration with Newton Mendonça incurred Desafinado or Samba de uma nota só contained. After that, Jobim was finally considered the most influential Brazilian composer of his time and one of the founders of Bossa Nova . His arrangements opened up new avenues and possibilities for popular music in Brazil. Traditional Brazilian song forms, such as choros or samba , were mainly mixed with jazz elements by the protagonists of the bossa nova . Jobim's pieces are mainly influenced by Pixinguinha , Chiquinha Gonzaga , Ernesto Nazareth , Sinhô , Ary Barroso , and Dorival Caymmi as well as the music of Claude Debussy and classical jazz music.

Jobim also had an international breakthrough in the 1960s. The most important event is the 1962 Bossa Nova Festival in Carnegie Hall in New York , to which Jobim and other Brazilian artists were invited. Bossa nova became popular in North America and Jobim recorded records with Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra . In 1968 Jobim and Chico Buarque won the International Music Festival with the song Sabiá .

Jobim's tombstone on the Cemitério de São João Batista (Rio de Janeiro)

In the 1970s, Jobim wrote music for numerous television productions and films . His songs have been performed by greats such as Ella Fitzgerald and Elis Regina . Among the many partnerships in composing and making music, the one with Vinícius de Moraes was the most fruitful; Successful songs such as Ela é carioca or Garota de Ipanema emerged from it. For example, Por causa de você emerged from the collaboration with Dolores Durán , and Dindi emerged with Aloysio de Oliveira .

In early 1994, Jobim reported urological problems to his doctor. On December 6th, he was operated on at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City for advanced bladder cancer . On December 8, 1994, he suffered a pulmonary embolism ; two hours later he died of a heart attack.
His album Antonio Brasileiro was released three days after his death.

Jobim's late work contains many South American rhythms; it is more complexly orchestrated and arranged than his compositions from the early bossa nova years.

The international airport of the city of Rio de Janeiro has been called Rio de Janeiro-Antônio Carlos Jobim Airport since 1999 .

Works

World-famous songs composed by Jobim include:

Tributes to Jobim in music, film, theater and sports

  • Heatmiser , a former American band from Portland / Oregon led by Neil Gust and Elliott Smith , named a song on the album "Cop and Speeder" after Antônio Carlos Jobim.
  • The singer Maucha Adnet , who worked with Jobim in his Banda Novo , released her Jobim songbook in 2006 .
  • In 2007 (on December 5, 2007 in Essen and on December 7, 2007 in Cologne) a homage to Jobim took place under the title Celebrating Jobim . Participants were the singer Joyce , Jaques Morelenbaum on the cello, Nailor Proveta on the clarinet and the WDR Big Band Cologne under the direction of Gilson Peranzzetta.
  • The Portuguese singer Carminho released the album Carminho Canta Tom Jobim on the occasion of Jobim's 90th birthday .
  • In the anime series Cowboy Bebop there are three old men named Antonio, Carlos and Jobim.

See also

Web links

Commons : Antônio Carlos Jobim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Helena Jobim: Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man , p. 169 (1996, 2011 published in English).
personal data
SURNAME Jobim, Antonio Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jobim, Tom (nickname); Jobim, Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1994
Place of death New York City