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Wave (Antônio Carlos Jobim Album)
''Wave'' is the fifth studio album by Brazilian jazz musician Antônio Carlos Jobim, released in 1967 on A&M Records. Recorded in the US with mostly American musicians, it peaked at number 114 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, as well as number 5 on the Jazz Albums chart. ''Wave'' was arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman, and features jazz musicians including trombonists Urbie Green and Jimmy Cleveland, flautist Jerome Richardson, and bassist Ron Carter, as well as a string section. Photographer Pete Turner created the solarized cover photo of a giraffe. Reception In a 2014 review, Richard S. Ginell of AllMusic praised the album for "Wave" and "Triste" (deeming them two "instant standards") and its "absolutely first-rate tunes... that escaped overexposure and thus sound fresh today." He concluded, "one only wishes that this album were longer; 31:45 is not enough." Chris May, in a review on ''All About Jazz,'' said Claus Ogerman's simple string arrangements added to the "modern ... [...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 as one of the great exponents of Brazilian music, Jobim merged samba with cool jazz in the 1960s to create bossa nova, with worldwide success. As a result, he is regarded as one of the fathers of bossa nova, and as one of the most-celebrated songwriters of the 20th century. 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 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Album of the Year. It also won Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, Best Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group and Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Turner (photographer)
Donald Peter Turner (May 30, 1934 – September 18, 2017) was an American photographer. In 1986, Turner published his first monograph, ''Pete Turner Photographs'' ( Abrams). His second book, ''Pete Turner African Journey'' ( Graphis Inc., 2001), documents Turner's many adventures in Africa, beginning with his trek in 1959 from Cape Town to Cairo with Wally Byam's famous Airstream caravan. ''The Color of Jazz'' ( Rizzoli, 2006) is a comprehensive collection of his provocative album covers for CTI Records among many others. Life and work Critic A. D. Coleman described the work of Turner as having ''"A dramatist's sense of event, intense and saturated coloration, and a distinct if indescribable otherness are omnipresent in Turner's images".'' He graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1956 along with classmates Bruce Davidson and Jerry Uelsmann. Photo District News voted him as one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time and in 1981 the American S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Albums
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Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Orloff
Gene Orloff (June 14, 1921 – March 23, 2009) was an American violinist, concertmaster, arranger, contractor and session musician. Background The son of a Russian immigrant violin maker, Orloff would try and get his father's violin down from the piano and try to play it. He was only three at the time. By the time he was five, he was playing recitals in his home city of Boston. Later, he was playing concerts at venues which included performances at Carnegie Hall and with the Boston Symphony. Having won a scholarship at the Curtis Institute of Music, he left due to the schedule and found work as a commercial musician and, on occasion, was working 15 hours per day. During his time, the artists that Orloff performed with included Meat Loaf, The Bee Gees, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand. Orloff's daughter Marcy said that one of his favorites was Van McCoy. Career In the late 1940s, he was in Neal Hefti's orchestra, together with, among others, Curley Russel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Lookofsky
Harry William Lookofsky (1 October 1913 – 8 June 1998) was an American jazz violinist. He was also the father of keyboardist-songwriter Michael Brown, who most notably was a founding member of the Left Banke and Stories. Early life and family Harry Lookofsky was born in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1913, the son of Ben Lookofsky and Lottie Dinkin, Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. He studied classical violin in St. Louis. Career Lookofsky joined the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the mid-1930s. An early admirer of Joe Venuti, Lookofsky eventually became recognized as one of the earliest accomplished bebop jazz violinists. His technique became particularly recognized on his album ''Stringsville'' (1959, Atlantic). Lookofsky was one of many early jazz violinists who occasionally played tenor violin, an instrument he cited for its similar tonal qualities to the tenor saxophone. Another relatively unknown unique characteristic about Lookofsky's playing is that the beb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Slon
Claudio Slon (November 12, 1943 - April 16, 2002) was a notable Brazilian jazz drummer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He performed in a variety of Latin music genres, including Latin pop, Latin jazz, Brazilian pop and easy pop. The son of a classical violinist and a ballet instructor, Slon was raised in São Paulo and began recording professionally at an early age, taking first place in a national poll of jazz critics while still a teenager. He performed alongside his father in the São Paulo Philharmonic, before appearing with the Walter Wanderley Trio, as well as Sérgio Mendes' Brasil '66 and Brasil '77 during the 1960s and 1970s. He also appeared on many Brazilian sessions overseen by Creed Taylor for the Verve label, including '' A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness'' by Astrud Gilberto and the Walter Wanderley Trio, ''Wave'' by Antônio Carlos Jobim, and '' Samba '68'' by Marcos Valle. Although a total of three drummers are generally credited on the Jobim ''Wave'' releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Rosengarden
Robert Marshall Rosengarden (April 23, 1924 – February 27, 2007) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and bandleader. A native of Elgin, Illinois, United States, he played on many recordings and in television orchestras and talk show bands. Rosengarden began playing drums when he was 12, and later studied at the University of Michigan. After playing drums in Army bands in World War II, he moved to New York City, working in several groups between 1945 and 1948, before becoming a busy studio musician. He played at NBC-TV (1949–1968) and ABC (1969–1974) on ''The Steve Allen Show'', ''The Ernie Kovacs Show'', ''Sing Along With Mitch'', Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show Band, and led the band for ''The Dick Cavett Show''. Through the years, Rosengarden was an active studio musician, recording with Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Skitch Henderson, Quincy Jones, Peter Nero, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Benny Goodman, Moondog, Dick Hyman, Arlo Guthrie, Carmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dom Um Romão
Dom Um Romão (3 August 1925 – 27 July 2005) was a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Noted for his expressive stylings with the fusion band Weather Report, Romão also recorded with artists such as Cannonball Adderley, Paul Simon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jorge Ben, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, and Tony Bennett. He was the percussionist Tom Jobim brought to the studio for the album Jobim recorded with Frank Sinatra in 1967 for Reprise Records, '' Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim''. He died in Rio de Janeiro shortly after suffering a stroke. Discography As leader * 1965 ''Dom Um'' ( Phillips) * 1972 ''Dom Um Romão'' (Muse) * 1973 ''Spirit of the Times'' (Muse) * 1974 ''Braun-Blek-Blu'' (Happy Bird) * 1977 ''Hotmosphere'' ( Pablo) * 1978 ''Om'' (ECM Records)ECM LP 19003 * 1990 ''Samba de Rua'' ( Vogue Records) * 1993 ''Saudades'' (Waterlilly) * 1999 ''Rhythm Traveller'' (Natasha) * 2001 ''Lake of Perseverance'' ( Irma) * 2002 ''Nu Jazz meets Braz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triste (Antônio Carlos Jobim Song)
"Triste" (Sad) is a bossa nova song composed in 1966 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, who also wrote lyrics for it in both English and Portuguese. Background Jobim wrote the song in late 1966 while staying at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles, as he waited for Frank Sinatra to return from a holiday in Barbados so they could begin recording their album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim (1967).Jobim, Helena, ''Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man'', Hal Leonard, Montclair, NJ, 2011. > The first recording of the song was an instrumental version by Jobim for his 1967 album ''Wave.'' Sinatra recorded it with Jobim two years later on the sessions for their planned second album, ''SinatraJobim,'' which was ultimately released as Side A of '' Sinatra & Company'' (1971). Jobim recorded an English-language vocal version in 1980 on the album '' Terra Brasilis''. Recorded versions * Antônio Carlos Jobim - ''Wave'' (1967) and '' Terra Brasilis'' (1980) * Sérgio Mendes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wave (Antônio Carlos Jobim Song)
"Wave" (also known as "Vou Te Contar" in Portuguese; "I am going to tell you") is a bossa nova and jazz standard song written by Antônio Carlos Jobim. Recorded as an instrumental on his 1967 album of the same name, its English lyrics were written by Jobim himself later that year. But the version of Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 is the first release of the tune, sung by Lani Hall with Mendes on their second album, ''Equinox'', in 1967. The English lyrics were used on the February 11, 1969, recording by Frank Sinatra, on his 1970 album '' Sinatra & Company''. They were also used by Johnny Mathis in his 1970 '' Close to You'' album. The song was voted by the Brazilian edition of ''Rolling Stone'' to be the 73rd greatest Brazilian song. According to ''The Jazz Discography'' by Tom Lord, the song has been recorded nearly 500 times by jazz artists. Notable recordings * Antonio Carlos Jobim – ''Wave'' (1967) and ''Antonio Carlos Jobim and Friends'' (1993) * Elis Regina with Toots Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rolling Stone Brasil 100 Greatest Brazilian Music Records
The 100 greatest Brazilian music records list was chosen by voting held by the '' Rolling Stone Brasil'' magazine published in October 2007.Os 100 Maiores Discos da Música Brasileira', ''Rolling Stone Brasil'' Voting The choice of the "100 greatest" was based on the sum of votes of 60 scholars, producers and Brazilian music journalists. Each of the voters chose 20 albums, in no order of preference, which according to ''Rolling Stone'', should be based on criteria like "intrinsical artistic value and historical importance, that is, how much the album influenced other artists." The list Statistics Among the top 10, three albums were released in 1972, including the most voted '' Acabou Chorare'', by the group Novos Baianos. Of the 25 best records, 14 were released in the 1970 decade. The artists with more than one record in the list are: * Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil (7) * Gal Costa, Jorge Ben, Os Mutantes, Tom Jobim (5) * João Gilberto, Roberto Carlos, Tim Maia (4) * El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
