Antonio Carlos Jobim - Helena Jobim

Charlie Byrd
Herbie Mann
and others brought in bags full of discs from a trip to Brazil in 1961. Stan Getz listened to them and recorded
Desafinado
which stayed for 70 weeks on the Billboard charts. Since then
no one can deny bossa nova's global appeal and influence upon jazz and world music. While celebrating bossa nova's 50-year presence in the United States
we can learn more about the movement's champion
Jobim
through poet and novelist Helena Jobim's Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man. His personal
intellectual
and professional history comes alive. With a vast
intimate
and revealing set of photographs
and an engaging
elegant and unique prose
this is the story of a true 20th-century's genius. Helena Jobim does justice to her brother's poetic voice. The composer of
Waters of March
read
questioned
and re-created the world he lived in not only through mesmerizing melodies
but also through down-to-earth poetry.The biography also reveals Antonio Carlos Jobim's serious ecological concerns. To his 400 songs of inexplicable grace he has added his own epigraph in An Illuminated Man:
Every time a tree is cut down here on Earth
I believe it will grow again somewhere else
in another world. So
when I die
it is to this place that I want to go
where forests live in peace.