Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim celebrated in Bigfork Oct. 3
Some people say that Antonio Carlos Jobim was the George Gershwin of Brazil.
Like Gershwin, Jobim contributed a repertoire of beautiful songs, elevated his music to the concert hall and symbolized his country to the rest of the world.
A tribute to Jobim will be in Bigfork Oct. 3 at the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts.
One can only imagine how thrilled American saxophone legend Stan Getz felt when he visited Brazil and fell in love with the beautiful new music he heard there. It was a gentle wonderful sophisticated sound, and it excited him. In the late 1950s Rio de Janeiro’s Ipanema Beach, with its white sand and fresh ocean breezes became the birth place of bossa nova. Inspired musicians Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luis Bonfa, and Joao Gilberto played with the beat of the samba and slowed it down to make it more seductive. To that they added the lyrical influence of European classical music and the harmonies of American jazz. The poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote lyrics to fit the enchanting music. “Bossa” was a slang word from Rio, used often in the 30’s to describe something done with originality, charm and flair. In the 50’s it came to refer to a trend or fashionable wave. Nova in Portuguese means ‘new.’ Bossa nova was a new wave, but it became so popular the world over, it was more like a tsunami.
Stan Getz’s 1964 Album “Getz/Gilberto” with João Gilberto on guitar, and most of the songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Jobim on piano was the product of a Brazilian quartet and an American sax player. It won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album of the Year. The song, “Girl from Ipanema” won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The song became an international hit.
Tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim
Friday, Oct. 3, 7:30pm
Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts
526 Electric Avenue, Tickets: $25 - $27 - $29 - $32
Oct. 4, 7:30pm
Whitefish Performing Arts Center
600 East 2nd Street
Tickets: $25 - $27 - $29 - $32
Oct. 5, 7:30pm
Whitefish Lake Restaurant
Tickets: $29 - on stage in dining room/ Dinner separate. After purchase call for reservation at 862-5285.
Tickets at SingerandSimpson.com or Tix.com. For assistance call 406-730-2817