Going solo, he moved to the States in 1964 and cut two albums under the Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘65 group name. Pianist and bandleader Sergio Mendes, who once worked with Jobim, also did much to popularise Brazilian music on a worldwide basis. We feature a version by Jose Baptista da Silva and his Band that dates from 1956, nearly a decade before the breakthrough. João Gilberto from Bahia in northern Brazil, had been first to record it, singing in Portuguese, but when his wife Astrud took it to Number 5 in the American charts it was sung in English, the vocalist joined by Jobim and US jazzman Stan Getz. ‘…Ipanema’ brought Brazilian music to a worldwide audience back in 1964. The influence of our first three selections ‘The Girl From Ipanema’, ‘Desafinado’ and ‘One-Note Samba’ is incalculable. It supplanted the samba, the foremost Brazilian style through the first half of the 20th century, in popularity in the late Fifties. It has a distinctive rhythm and is relatively simple in instrumentation, with less percussion than is common in Afro-American music. The bossa nova (which literally means ‘new way’ or ‘new style’) is an understated, easy-listening form of music. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1927, he started the bossa nova movement when, as director of Odeon Records, he gave João Gilberto a composition to record. The work of Antonio Carlos Jobim is well represented here, and rightly so.
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Major musical strands from Portugal and Spain have merged with Africa, plus imports from nearer afield such as Mexico and Cuba, to create a world within the world-music genre. Roots that first extended in the Sixties today feed a blossoming musical movement like no other. The samba and the bossa nova are just two of its gifts to music and dance. Not only is it the continent’s largest constituent, but its cosmopolitan nature, with so many ancestral links, ensures a variety and vibrancy to its music that is unmatched the world over. If any country can claim to be representative of South America’s music as a whole then it is Brazil.
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