Wave - Grand Piano Solo

Some youtube friends asked me to make a video on the real grand piano.
Sorry for the really bad audio was only recorded with a small casio Digital Camera :)

You can also visit my other new channel:
http://www.youtube.com/JustPianoforte
There I just start to make some tutorials for Jazz musicians beginners, and more :-)


"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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[watchmeplaypiano]

Che bella sistemazione. Io amo gli accordi. Mi piace molto ascoltare la tua musica.

[PianistaItaliano]

@watchmeplaypiano Grazie, molto gentile .-)

[BennyMax37]

E proprio il caso di dire Un bel pezzo in "Ottime" mani. Sempre Ok. Doppi Auguri. Benny

[PianistaItaliano]

@BennyMax37 Grazie Benny,  altrettanto auguri

[renatoleiteleite]

So nice to see how respected is the brazilian music around the world. Congratulations PianistaItaliano, you give a special touch that beautified this fantastic song. I'm proud to be brazilian at this moment.

[PianistaItaliano]

Thanks renatoleiteleite!

[eggzy43]

magic

[dantcacenco1]

@dantcacenco1 P.S.: Got drunk by the "wave of the musical notes"

[dantcacenco1]

I'm proud of ya', boy!!!, I meant gentleman....! Thanks

[dantcacenco1]

3 people got drunk and screwed up this vid....

[PeritoGH3]

@elivansouza ¬¬ yes

this is bossa nova

wave - tom jobim , king of bossa nova I'm brazilian and I know !

[toddmillett]

awesome!