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Syncopated guitar chords replaced much of the percussion melodies and harmonies echoed the twists of cool jazz, and lyrics were sly and elliptical, often sung in a whisper. Built on the samba, it transferred the rhythms and messages of public celebrations to an intimate scale. Their first single was "Chega de Saudade," or "No More Blues," which became a jazz standard.īossa nova was a quiet revolution in Brazilian music. Jobim, who had become the music director for Odeon records, began collaborating with Joao Gilberto, who was mixing samba and jazz in what came to be known as the bossa nova. The movie was a worldwide hit and won an Academy Award for best foreign film in 1959. With the guitarist and composer Luis Bonfa, he wrote the samba-influenced score for the French-Brazilian film "Black Orpheus," which retold the Orpheus myth in the setting of Brazil's Carnaval. Jobim's samba style at the time as quite distinctive, "soft and sophisticated, in much the same way an American pop tune sounds with a subdued modern jazz treatment." He worked briefly for an architect in the 1940's, but after hearing Duke Ellington and other American bandleaders perform in Rio, he decided to become a musician, performing in the small, crowded Rio clubs known as "inferninhos," or "little infernos." He played the guitar and piano as a child and at 14 began studying under the 12-tone composer Hans Joachim Koellrutter.
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Jobim was born in 1927 in Rio de Janeiro and grew up nearby in Ipanema. "I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest," he told The Associated Press in a 1991 interview. Widely praised as one of the great pop composers of his time, he employed unusual harmonies. He performed on Frank Sinatra's recent recording "Duets." Jobim, who was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in New York in 1991, also played piano and sang.