Guys welcome back again to my blog, today I’ve got a kind of lovely music for you. We can call it as Boss nova. After you have been stressed for the whole day, you might need kind of song to relax yourselves. Sometimes the way to relax is not limited in the nightclub only, try the new way here !!
Here is the history of Boss nova, I got this information from this website http://www.bossanovamusic.net/en/6-bossa/index.html
The article was written by Paulo Bitencourt, he is a musician and professional photographer.
Here is his blog where you might visit his works
History of the Bossa Nova
The Bossa Nova as a defined musical movement appeared at the end of the 1950’s. Young Brazilian musicians residing in the South Zone of Rio de Janei- ro were more interested in jazz than in the Brazilian music of that time, which for them sounded very antiquated. And in fact Brazilian songs then were sung in a rather artificial manner, with a classical voice, as if they were arias of operas. The lyrics were, so speaking, archaic as well, the words were not the same used by the average citizens, specially the young ones, in their every day language. These young musicians played in the nightclubs and bars of Rio de Janeiro. Even though they were fans of jazz they composed and played essentially Brazilian music, just letting consciously or unconsciously jazz elements flow more and more into their work, resulting in that their mu- sic sounded differently from what most of the people were used to hear. Fre- quently they also gathered in each other’s house to make music or just to hear the new long play of jazz that one of them had bought. They knew they were creating some new kind of Brazilian music but they did not have yet a homogeneous musical line that would establish an own musical movement.
In those years a young man called João Gilberto, from the Brazilian State of Bahia, moved to Rio de Janeiro to try a career as a musician. Rio that time was the capital of Brazil and therefore the centre of the artistic activities of the country. For some years he played here and there without success, not earning money even to pay the rent of an apartment, living as a guest in the apartments of other musicians or their friends. Despaired João Gilberto some- times went away from Rio de Janeiro for several months. Known for his eccen- tricity he sometimes locked himself in the bedroom or in the bathroom and played on the guitar the same chord for many hours in a row, obsessed by the idea of finding a new way of playing the instrument. And he found it. Not on- ly a new way of playing but also of singing. If until then Brazilian singers sang with an opera voice João Gilberto started to sing quietly, in a soft and velvet way, without vibrato. He returned to Rio and went to show his new way of playing and singing to the other musicians. One of the musicians that got impressed was Antonio Carlos Jobim, better known as Tom Jobim. In 1958 the singer Elizete Cardoso recorded an album entitled “Canção do Amor Demais”, entirely with songs from Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes. On this album João Gilberto accompanied Elizete on the guitar in two tracks: “Chega de Saudade” and “Outra Vez”. This was the first recording to register João Gilberto’s new way of playing the guitar. Three months later João Gilberto recorded his own album, singing and playing, with one song from himself, “Bim-Bom”, and the other one from Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, “Chega de Saudade”. The Bos- sa Nova was officially born. The youth approved the new musical style that ended up becoming fashion.
Almost all young musicians incorporated the different musical form that João Gilberto had developed. The radio stations started to play Bossa Nova and more and more recordings appeared, not only singing music but also instrumen- tal. American and European musicians who travelled to Brazil started to take notice of the Bossa Nova and took the novelty to their countries with them. In 1962 Brazilian musicians performed at the Carnegie Hall in New York in a concert entitled “Bossa Nova (New Brazilian Jazz)”. This concert popularized the Bossa Nova internationally. The great representatives of this new musical movement took part in it, like Tom Jobim, João Gilberto, Carlos Lyra, Roberto Menescal and Luiz Bonfá, among others. In the audience were famous musicians, like Miles Davis, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee and Herbie Mann. The concert was broadcasted live to several American and European radio stations. As a direct consequence of that the major part of these Brazilian musicians received in- vitations to perform or record in the United States. Two weeks after New York the cream of the Bossa Nova musicians performed in another concert, this time at the George Washington Auditorium, after which they were welcomed by Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.
From then on the Bossa Nova conquered the entire world. The song “Garota de Ipanema” (“The Girl from Ipanema”, in English), for example, from Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, is worldwide one of the most performed and most rec- orded songs of all times.
Vienna, December 2006
Here are some Bossa Nova songs
Hope you guys love Bossa Nova and enjoy the night
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