Showing posts with label Bossa Nova. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bossa Nova. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The History of Bossa Nova Tour. Brazil by Locals. Rio de Janeiro





Conheça e participe do nosso Tour Bossa Nova.
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  Brazil by Locals.


We are preparing a tour for the Bossa Nova fans.
  Born in the southern zone of Rio de Janeiro, this musical style
 that emerged in the '50s and '60s, has influences
 from Brazilian samba and American jazz.

Bossa Nova literally means New Trend, being born from the desire

 of young composers and singers to play and sing samba in a new way,
 a modern urban samba, young and with middle class origins.

Do something with Bossa, in Brazil, is a slang term for 
making it with a certain charm.

One of the most influential movements of Brazilian popular music, 
Bossa Nova became known around the world, associated with names like
 Joao Gilberto, Nara Leao, Vinicius de Moraes, 
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa, and Baden Powell.

We are checking places frequented by these composers and singers
 in the 50s and the years that followed, where we will take our guests,
 as well as in front of some houses where they lived.

Pictures and videos on the Bossa Nova will be presented,

 its beginning, and progress towards the achievement 
of an international market.

We'll go to some bars and restaurants that remind us that time, 

and eat and drink things that they liked, 
always hearing the sound of bossa nova.

We will make visits to places with extensive historical material,

 as well as specialized stores with books and CD’s.

If there is a special show in the city, we'll reserve the best seats

 for our guests and take them to some celebration after the show.

Learn more clicking the link below:





João Gilberto


Nara Leão


Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes


Roberto Menescal e Ronaldo Boscoli


Luiz Bonfá


Baden Powell


João Gilberto and Tom Jobim



Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz and João Gilberto



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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Bossa Nova. Brazilian Music.





Bossa Nova is a movement of Brazilian popular music
that appears in the late '50s,
 released by Joao Gilberto (1931 -), Tom Jobim (1927-1994),
 Vinicius de Moraes (1913-1980) and young singers and composers
of the middle class in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro.
 It is characterized by a greater integration between melody,
harmony and rhythm, more elaborate and letters 
related to daily life, enhancement of pause and silence,
 and a way of singing more stripped and intimate
 than the style that prevailed until then.







                                


                                                                                


According to a definition of Tom Jobim,
bossa nova is "the meeting of the Brazilian samba
 with modern jazz." 
 In 1958 the LP “Canção do Amor Demais”, came out,
recorded by Elizeth Cardoso (1920-1990),
with music by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes lyrics.
 The monitoring of two tracks – “Chega de Saudade”
 and “Outra Vez” - is done by the guitar of Joao Gilberto,
 who introduces a new beat, later identified 
with bossa nova.


                      
           

          

                                                         



In the early '50s, the American jazz influences
 Brazilian singers such as Mario Reis (1907-1981),
 Dick Farney (1921-1987), Lucio Alves (1927-1993), 
Tito Madi (1932-) and Johnny Alf (1929 -),
 which are considered the precursors of the bossa nova.
They are accompanied by young people from
 the south of Rio de Janeiro, as Carlos Lyra (1936 -), 
Roberto Menescal (1937 -), Nara Leão (1942-1989)
and Ronaldo Boscoli (1929-1994),
 who can gather to play guitar and sing their own songs
 and other composers.
 Carlos Lyra and Roberto Menescal form a guitar academy in 1956,
and disclose the composition of the group.
 Influenced by the everyday informal language and thematic samba,
simple and colloquial lyrics,  bossa nova themes
 often depict the  universe of young people,
 such as Corcovado, Girl From Ipanema and “A Felicidade”.









A  show in Rio de Janeiro, 1958,
opens public performances of bossa nova. 
The expression, which was already used
 to name the new style of music, appears in the lyrics
 of “Desafinado”, recorded by Joao Gilberto, Tom Jobim's music
 and lyrics by Newton Mendonça (1927-1960). 
In May 1960, Joao Gilberto is presented for the first time
in concert with the musicians of bossa nova:
 “A Noite do Amor, do Sorriso e da Flor”.
 In 1962, the festival of bossa nova performed at Carnegie Hall
 in New York, United States,
 gives international recognition to the movement. 
On the occasion are presented “Samba de Uma Nota Só”,
“O Barquinho” e “Lobo Bobo”, among others. 




                                                                            



                                                                                     
      
                                                     
                                                                                        




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