Jobim Antonio Carlos, *25 January 1927 Rio de Janeiro, †8 December 1994 New York, Brazilian composer, guitarist, jazz pianist, arranger, and vocalist. Self-taught. In the late 1940s, he made his debut as a club pianist, in the early 1950s as a studio arranger, and in 1953 as a composer (Incerteza). From the mid-1950s, he worked as music director for the Odeon record label in Rio de Janeiro, where in 1957 he recorded several of his own folk-jazz compositions in samba rhythm (including Chega de saudade) with singer João Gilberto, advertised as bossa nova (new wave). In the 1960s, this new commercial jazz trend gained popularity in the United States and later in Europe, mainly thanks to Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz, who recorded Jobim’s most popular compositions, Desafinado (Slightly out of Tune) and Samba de una nota so (One Note Samba), on their 1962 album Jazz Samba. Other well-known compositions by Jobim from the 1950s and 1960s include Meditação, Dindi (dedicated to S. Telles, the first bossa nova singer), Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema), album of the year in 1964, which won a Grammy Award for the performers – singers Astrud Gilberto and Getz, So danco samba (Jazz Samba), Corcovado (Quiet Nights), Wave, Triste, Waters of March, Lamento, Mojave. Together with L. Bonfa, Jobim composed the music for the film Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro, 1958), and independently for the film The Adventures (1969). His performances with Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra in 1969 were hugely popular.
