Happy New Year 2008 - Wave Jazz Quartet

I wish you all a happy new year 2008. As a symbol and to make decisions calmly unhurriedly of a good new year start,I thought of playing this wonderful composition by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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http://www.youtube.com/JustPianoforte
There I just start to make some tutorials for Jazz musicians beginners, and more :-)


I hope you enjoy, also :-)
"Wave" (also known as "Vou Te Contar" in Portuguese) is a song written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Recorded as an instrumental on Jobim's 1967 album of the same name, English lyrics were added by Jobim for a November 11, 1969 recording by Frank Sinatra, released on his 1970 album Sinatra & Company [1]. On this recording, Sinatra sung his lowest note, a low E♭
Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro December 8, 1994 in Brazil), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. A primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, Jobim is acknowledged as one of the most influential popular composers of the 20th century. His songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within Brazil and internationally.

Early life and career:
Jobim's musical roots were planted firmly in the work of Pixinguinha, the legendary musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in the 1930s. Jobim was also influenced by the French composers Claude Debussy and Ravel, and by jazz. Among many themes, his lyrics talked about love, political repression, betrayal, and especially about the natural beauties of Brazil, like the "Mata Atlântica" forest, birds like the Matita Perê, and his home city of Rio de Janeiro.
Jobim became prominent in Brazil when he teamed up with poet and diplomat Vinicius de Moraes to write the music for the play Orfeu de Conceição (1956). The most popular song from the show was "Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Você" ("Someone to Light Up My Life"). Later, when the play was turned into a film, producer Sacha Gordine did not want to use any of the existing music from the play. Gordine asked de Moraes and Jobim for a new score for the film Black Orpheus (1959). Vinicius was at the time away in Montevideo, Uruguay, working for the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and so he and Jobim were only able to write three songs, primarily over the telephone ("A Felicidade", "Frevo",and "O Nosso Amor"). This collaboration proved successful, and Vinicius went on to pen the lyrics to some of Jobim's most popular songs.
[edit]Popularity
A key event in making Jobim's music known in the English speaking world was his collaboration with the American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, João Gilberto and Gilberto's wife at the time, Astrud Gilberto, which resulted in two albums, Getz/Gilberto (1963) and Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2 (1964). The release of Getz/Gilberto created a bossa nova craze in the United States, and subsequently internationally.
Getz had previously recorded Jazz Samba (1962), and Jobim wrote many of the songs on Getz/Gilberto, which became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, and turned Astrud Gilberto, who sang on "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado", into an international sensation.
At the Grammy Awards of 1964 Getz/Gilberto won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group and the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "The Girl from Ipanema" won the award for Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
Jobim remained musically productive until his 1994 death from heart failure; his last album, Antonio Brasileiro, was released posthumously.[1] He is buried in the Cemitério São João Batista in Rio de Janeiro

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• wave
• bossa
• nova
• jazz
• quartet
• Antonio
• Carlos
• Jobim
• piano
• solo
• Gugliucci

[2Shlow]

Fine playing, but the piano voice is often almost lost in the rhythm section (this is true of many recordings, by the way, including others by this fine artist).

[PianistaItaliano]

Hi 2 Shlow,thanks for "Fine playing".

About the piano voice, yes is true,I noticed this before uploading, but then I thought about leaving so, hoping that someone might hear some note :-)

[DJJBENASIS]

How in hell can you dislike this?? 1 person obviously had the mute button on.

[MrBaloo90]

happy new year, great video! wow i love jazz.

[Jonnyfaster]

Musically brilliant.

Can you lose the fireworks, though. Distracting after a minute, or so.

Thanks

[DaveisLearningtoPlay]

i love your interpretation of the melody. such a nice touch.

[joanthanmak]

a very good one...though the piano solo part can be ....more....btw, wt kind of scale are u using? pentaonic?blues?

[funkyboiblue]

Bello! ! ! ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

[yute99166]

smooth playing. i got to learn how to do that. i know how to play it but you have a different touch. i love it.

[Jazzguts]

Nice musical and gentle touch man,it's placed under my Video,we'll hearing from eachother,nice improvisation,greets Vic.

[volvoxburger]

Somehow I missed this when you originally posted it, but I'm delighted to have found it now. You strike a wonderful balance between lightness and richness. I always find your playing the height of musical taste.

☆☆☆☆☆

[EdoardoElisei]

ottimo 5 per me