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Sabiá (song)
"Sabiá" (also known as "The Song of the Sabiá") is a Brazilian song composed in 1968 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Chico Buarque. English-language lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel. In 1968, "Sabiá" won first place at Brazil’s III Festival Internacional da Canção (International Festival of Song), where it was performed by Cynara and Cybele. After Buarque wrote the original lyrics, he traveled to Italy, and, while he was away, Jobim added a last verse, which was included in the performance at the Festival but was not well received. Buarque convinced Jobim to drop the verse, and it has not been used since. The ''sabiá'' is a songbird (Rufous-bellied thrush in English) and the List of national birds, national bird of Brazil. Buarque's lyrics allude to the sabiá in the famous Brazilian poem "Canção do exílio", written in 1843 by Gonçalves Dias. Sinatra & Jobim recording In 1969, Frank Sinatra and Jobim recorded "The Song of the Sabiá" for an album ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and singer. Considered one of the great exponents of Brazilian music, Jobim internationalized bossa nova and, with the help of important American artists, merged it with jazz in the 1960s to create a new sound, with popular success. As a result, he is sometimes known as the "father of bossa nova". Jobim was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists internationally since the early 1960s. In 1965, the album ''Getz/Gilberto'' was the first jazz record to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It also won Best Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The album's single '" Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)'", composed by Jobim, has become one of the most r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Nunes
Clara Nunes (, August 12, 1942 – April 2, 1983) was a Brazilian samba and MPB singer, considered one of the greatest of her generation. She was the first female singer in Brazil to sell over 100,000 copies of a record,"Viúvo de Clara Nunes não quer mexerico em filme" R7. November 15, 2010. with "Tristeza Pé No Chão" and her achievements in the samba genre earned her the title of "Queen of Samba".Neder, Alvaro. Clara Nunes biography All Music Guide. She had an enormous success with samba songs written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once More (Billy Higgins Album)
''Once More'' is the third album led by American jazz drummer Billy Higgins recorded in 1980 and released on the Italian Red Records, Red label.Fitzgerald, M.Billy Higgins discographyaccessed August 12, 2014 Reception Ken Dryden of AllMusic recommends the album.Dryden, KAllmusic Reviewaccessed August 12, 2014 Track listing # "Plexus" (Cedar Walton) - 7:28 # "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?), Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) - 7:33 # "Sabiá (song), Sabiá" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 4:26 # "Amazon" (Bob Berg) - 6:15 # "Estaté" (Bruno Martino) - 7:07 # "Horizons" (Manfred Schoof) - 8:16 Personnel *Billy Higgins - drum kit, drums *Bob Berg - tenor saxophone *Cedar Walton - piano *Tony Dumas - double bass, bass References {{Authority control Red Records albums Billy Higgins albums 1980 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop. Biography Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, beginning in 1958. He then freelanced extensively with hard bop and other post- bop players, including Donald Byrd, Dexter Gordon, Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Don Cherry, Paul Horn, Milt Jackson, Jackie McLean, Pat Metheny, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, David Murray, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, Mal Waldron, and Cedar Walton. He was one of the house drummers for Blue Note Records and played on dozens of Blue Note albums of the 1960s. He also collaborated with composer La Monte Young and guitarist Sandy Bull. In his career, he played on over 700 recordings, including recordings of rock and funk. He appeared as a jazz drummer in the 2001 movie, ''Southlander''. In 1989, Higgins cofounded a cultural cente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elis Regina
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa (March 17, 1945 – January 19, 2002), known professionally as Elis Regina (), was a Brazilian singer of MPB and jazz music. She is also the mother of the singers Maria Rita and Pedro Mariano. She became nationally renowned in 1965 after singing "Arrastão" (composed by Edu Lobo and Vinícius de Moraes) in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest and soon joined ''O Fino da Bossa'', a television program on TV Record. She was noted for her vocalization as well as for her interpretation and performances in shows. Her recordings include "Como Nossos Pais" ( Belchior), "Upa Neguinho" (E. Lobo and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri), "Madalena" (Ivan Lins), "Casa no Campo" ( Zé Rodrix and Tavito), "Águas de Março" (Tom Jobim), "Atrás da Porta" (Chico Buarque and Francis Hime), "O Bêbado e a Equilibrista" (Aldir Blanc and João Bosco), "Conversando no Bar" (Milton Nascimento). Her untimely death, at the age of 56, shocked Brazil. Her son Gabriel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakthrough! (album)
''Breakthrough!'' is an album by the Cedar Walton/Hank Mobley Quintet recorded on February 22, 1972, originally released on the short-lived Cobblestone Records, Cobblestone label and later reissued on Muse Records, Muse. It features performances by Hank Mobley, Mobley and Cedar Walton, Walton with baritone saxophonist Charles Davis (saxophonist), Charles Davis, bassist Samuel Jones (musician), Sam Jones, and Mobley’s longtime drummer Billy Higgins. This was Mobley's final studio recording before retiring due to health issues. Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "As strong as pianist Cedar Walton plays on his session, the main honors are taken by two of his sidemen. Tenor-saxophonist Hank Mobley, whose career was about to go into a complete eclipse, is in brilliant form, showing how much he had grown since his earlier days. Baritonist Charles Davis, who too often through the years has been used as merely a section player, keeps up with Mobley and engages in a pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Mobley
Henry "Hank" Mobley (July 7, 1930 – May 30, 1986) was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone, that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Lester Young, and his style that was laid-back, subtle and melodic, especially in contrast with players like Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. The critic Stacia Proefrock claimed him "one of the most underrated musicians of the bop era." Mobley's compositions included "Double Exposure," "Soul Station", and "Dig Dis," among others. Early life and education Mobley was born in Eastman, Georgia, but was raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, near Newark. He described himself as coming from a musical family and spoke of his uncle playing in a jazz band. As a child, Mobley played piano. When he was 16, an illness kept him in the house for several months. His grandmother though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar Walton
Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers, before establishing a long career as a bandleader and composer. Several of his compositions have become jazz standards, including "Mosaic", "Bolivia", "Holy Land", "Mode for Joe" and "Ugetsu/Fantasy in D". Early life Walton was born and grew up in Dallas, Texas."Pianist-Composer Cedar Walton Dies at Age 79" , ''DownBeat'', August 20, 2013. His mother Ruth, an aspiring concert pianist, was his first teacher, and took him to jazz performances around Dallas. Walton cited |
Dez Anos Depois
''Dez Anos Depois'' () is a 1971 double album of bossa nova standards by Brazilian singer Nara Leão. The first LP is entirely acoustic. The arrangements and accompaniment, made by Brazilian guitarist Tuca, with occasional piano lines, were recorded in France; Nara was living in Paris at the time. The second LP was recorded in Rio; Nara's guitar and vocal were tracked separately from the accompaniment and orchestration, which were done at a studio with arrangers Roberto Menescal, Luiz Eça, and Rogério Duprat. Track listing of the original LP ;Disc 1 Side A # "Insensatez" (Tom Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes) # "Samba de uma nota só" (Jobim, Newton Mendonça) # " Retrato em branco e preto" (Jobim, Chico Buarque) # "Corcovado" (Jobim) # "Garota de Ipanema" (Jobim, de Moraes) # "Pois é" (Jobim, Buarque) Side B # "Chega de Saudade" (Jobim, de Moraes) # " Bonita" (Jobim, Gene Lees, Ray Gilbert) # "Você e eu" (Carlos Lyra, de Moraes) # " Fotografia" (Jobim) # "O grande amor" (Jobim, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nara Leão
Nara Lofego Leão (; January 19, 1942 – June 7, 1989) was a Brazilian bossa nova and MPB (popular Brazilian music) singer and occasional actress. Her husband was Carlos Diegues, director and writer of ''Bye Bye Brasil''. Life Leão was born in Vitória, Espírito Santo. When she was twelve, her father gave her a guitar since he was worried about her being shy. Her teachers were popular musician and composer Patricio Teixeira and classical guitarist Solon Ayala. As a teenager in the late 1950s, she became friends with a number of singers and composers who took part in Bossa Nova's musical revolution, including Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. In fact, it was in her apartment in her parents' home in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, that the new music was born in 1958. By 1963, after singing as an amateur for a few years, she became a professional and toured with Sérgio Mendes. In the mid-1960s, the ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terra Brasilis
''Terra Brasilis'' is the 11th album by Antônio Carlos Jobim. It was recorded at the RCA Recording Studios in New York City and released in 1980. The album includes reworkings of old songs as well as new material and placed 42nd on the US Jazz Albums 1980 year-end chart. Track listing # "Vivo Sonhando" (Gene Lees) –3:00 # "Canta Mais (Sing Once More)" (Vinicius de Moraes) –4:32 # "Olha Maria (Amparo)" –4:04 # "One Note Samba" (Jon Hendricks, Newton Mendonça) –2:17 # "Dindi" (Aloísio de Oliveira, Ray Gilbert) –4:13 # " Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)" (Lees) –3:26 # "Marina" –2:41 # "Desafinado" ("Off Key") (Lees, Mendonça) –3:24 # "Você Vai Ver" ("You'll See") –2:55 # "Estrada Do Sol" (Dolores Duran) –2:04 # "The Girl from Ipanema" (de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) –4:47 # "Double Rainbow" –4:04 # " Triste" –3:03 # "Wave" –3:39 # "Someone to Light Up My Life" (de Moraes, Gene Lees) –3:03 # "Falando de Amor" ("Speaking of Love") – 3:39 # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stone Flower (album)
''Stone Flower'' is the sixth studio album by Antônio Carlos Jobim. Recorded in March, April, and May 1970 by Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gelder Studios and produced by Creed Taylor, the album was released on July 7 on CTI Records. Track listing All tracks composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, except where noted. # "Tereza My Love" – 4:24 # "Children's Games" – 3:30 # "Choro" – 2:10 # "Brazil" (Ary Barroso) – 7:25 # "Stone Flower" – 3:21 # "Amparo" – 3:41 # "Andorinha" – 3:32 # " God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun" – 2:23 # " Sabiá" – 3:58 # "Brazil" lternate take– 5:25 ''Track 10 only available on CD reissue.'' Personnel * Antônio Carlos Jobim – piano, electric piano, guitar, vocals (tracks 4,9,10) * Harry Lookofsky – violin * Joe Farrell – soprano saxophone * Urbie Green – trombone * Hubert Laws – flute * Ron Carter – double bass * João Palma – drums * Airto Moreira – percussion * Everaldo Ferreira – percussion * Eumir Deodato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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