Tag: Tom Jobim

Tom Jobim and Vinicius, the Brazilian Odd Couple Who Started It All – Part Four

Upon the satisfactory completion, in France, of his Orfeu da Conceição, and after its ...

Tom Jobim and Vinicius, the Brazilian Odd Couple Who Started It All – Part Three

Enter the American director, writer, producer, actor and jack-of-all-media-trades, the inimitable Orson Welles, once ...

Brazil’s Number 1 Songbook Reviser Loves His Thankless Job

Ricardo Gilly is a guitarist and arranger. In Brazil, the profession of songbook reviser ...

“Down in Brazil,” with American Jazz-Pop Vocalist Michael Franks

Poor Michael Franks. He gets no respect, no respect at all from jazz purists. ...

Chico Lives

  For long considered a patrimony of Brazilian music, Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, better ...