Samba was a style of music originating in the Afro-Brazilian favelas, or shanty towns, of Rio and other cities. Jobim grew up listening to samba and other native sounds which he heard in the streets and clubs of Ipanema. Soon Jobim added guitar and harmonica to the list of instruments he had mastered. His step-father oversaw Jobim ’s musical education and he began study with Hans Joachim Koellreutter at the age of fourteen. His family ran a private school, the Brasiliero de Almeida, and it was that Jobim first encountered the piano. His father, a diplomat and poet, died when Jobim was eight. “I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest, ” he once said. Jobim grew up surrounded by lush forests which stretched down to the warm waters of the Atlantic. His family moved to the Ipanema district, one of the new boroughs in expanding Rio. And forever the name of Antonio Carlos Jobim, known to his Brazilian fans as Tom Jobim, is linked with Brazil ’s most successful cultural export.Īntonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim was born in 1927 in the Tijuca section of Rio de Janeiro. The album featured Gilberto ’s wife at the time, Astrud, who sang a song which was to become associated in the popular mind, with the music as a whole, “The Girl From lpanema ”. Its success in the United States was kicked off with the classic Getz Gilber to recordings of 1963, featuring the American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz and the Brazilian guitarist Jo âo Gilberto. Soon, the sound would be known worldwide. The sound was recognizably Latin, a kind of slowed down samba, quieter, more sensual, and it had a name: Bossa Nova. In the early sixties a new, sophisticated music redolent of ‘quiet nights and quiet stars ’, tropical breezes, beautiful women on white sandy beaches, and clear waters reflecting blue skies came upon the scene.
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