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In the mid-1950s, Brazilian musician Joao Gilberto's father was so confused by the strange sounds that his son produced that he sent the young man to a psychiatric facility. Among other things, Gilberto wrote a song called Bim-bom in which she tried to echo the rhythms of the hips of washerwomen who walked with tons of clothes on their heads.
When taking an interview standing near the window, Gilberto told the doctor that the wind was tearing the hair of the trees. "But the trees do not have hair, Joao," she said, as Ruy Castro reports in her authoritative article Bossa Nova: the history of Brazilian music that has seduced the world.
The young musician retorted, "And some people do not have poetry in their souls".
The announcement of the death of Joao Gilberto at the age of 88 was announced Saturday, his iconic tunes flooded social media social media. worldwide paid tribute to musical poetry and his Brazilian contemporaries began creating in the mid 50's. Their spare sound, which combined the propulsive rhythms of samba with the lush harmonies of jazz, called for bossa nova, the new wave.
The first ever nova boss album, sung by Gilberto and composed by his friend Antonio Carlos Jobim, was the ironic title Desafinado Portuguese for "detuned".
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This 1957 song inspired musicians from around the world, from Croatia to Japan, who tried to create their own version.
In India, Desfinado appears on an album entitled Sitar Goes Latin published in 1968. The album is arranged by the accordion player Enoch Daniels and presents sitar player Jayram Acharya.
"This is a sitar presentation, with a difference," said the dubber. "A touch of oriental melody emanating from the delicate strings of the staircase confers a mysterious and irresistible quality" to these 12 melodies.
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In 2010, another group of musicians from the subcontinent revisited Gilberto's tune. The version of the Sachal Studios orchestra in Lahore, Pakistan has attracted a much wider audience than the Acharya song. Released worldwide in the form of an album titled Jazz Sachal: Interpretations of Jazz Standards and Bossa Nova the band performs even in New York alongside the great jazz Wynton Marsalis.
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