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In 1950 the composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, influenced by West Coast Jazz, helped form a new music which amalgamated sweet Brazilian Samba rhythms and melodies with sparkling improvisation; the pace is usually played with lightness as 3-3-4-3-3, with lines 1, 4, 7, 11 and 14 being accented every two characters (played by 8/4 times). The soothing voice of Joćo Gilberto communicates perfectly the beauty of music Jobim. The 1959 film "Black Orpheus" (winner of the Cannes Film Festival, a Grammy and 'Oscar in the same year), helped introduce Jobim compositions of the American public and other important members of Bossa Nova as the guitarist Charlie Byrd , saxophonist Stan Getz (Byrd and Getz collaborated for the 'influential Jazz / Samba) and the housewife / singer Astrud Gilberto, who, along with her husband Getz and Joćo, have made "The Girl From Ipanema" a great success helping to make it the most popular song by Brazilian Bossa Nova. The genre Bossa Nova and Twist were born together in 1960 and have the place sound like Cuban Mambo, Rumba, Conga, Cha-Cha-Cha, Boogaloo and Afro-Cuban Jazz beat the late '50s (with Machito, Xavier Cugat, Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Mario Bauza or Pucho) and the Jamaican Calypso. Then the sound Carabbeen and Twist died in '62 while the most captivating Bossa Nova peaked in popularity around the world in the mid-60s and has remained a musical genre valid to date with the "Acid Jazz and Cool Jazz "of the '80s and the' Lounge and Cocktail Music" phenomenon of the '90s. |
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