Tom Jobim

b. Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, 25 January 1927, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, d. 8 Dec 1994, NY, USA. Jobim can rightfully state to have began the bossa nova motion when, as movie director of Odeon Information, he gave his friend João Gilberto his very own structure ‘Chega De Saudade’. The impact of the causing record shortly spread to the united states, where Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd produced his compositions greatly well-known. Although Jobim do record, and performed at Carnegie Hall with Getz, Byrd, and Dizzy Gillespie in 1962, it really is being a composer that his impact remains large, with music including ‘Desafinado’, ‘How Insensitive’, ‘The Young lady From Ipanema’, ‘One Notice Samba’ and ‘Influx’ still jazz specifications. Before his untimely loss of life in 1994, his praises had been sung for quite some time by Frank Sinatra, and recently by Lee Ritenour.