{"product_id":"antonio-carlos-jobim-9781617803437","title":"Antonio Carlos Jobim","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharlie Byrd, Herbie Mann, and others brought in bags full of discs from a trip to Brazil in 1961. Stan Getz listened to them and recorded “Desafinado ” which stayed for 70 weeks on the \u003ci\u003eBillboard\u003c\/i\u003e charts. Since then, no one can deny bossa nova's global appeal and influence upon jazz and world music. While celebrating bossa nova's 50-year presence in the United States, we can learn more about the movement's champion, Jobim, through poet and novelist Helena Jobim's \u003ci\u003eAntonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man\u003c\/i\u003e. His personal, intellectual, and professional history comes alive. With a vast, intimate, and revealing set of photographs, and an engaging, elegant and unique prose, this is the story of a true 20th-century's genius. Helena Jobim does justice to her brother's poetic voice. The composer of “Waters of March” read, questioned, and re-created the world he lived in not only through mesmerizing melodies, but also through down-to-earth poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe biography also reveals Antonio Carlos Jobim's serious ecological concerns. To his 400 songs of inexplicable grace he has added his own epigraph in \u003ci\u003eAn Illuminated Man\u003c\/i\u003e: “Every time a tree is cut down here on Earth, I believe it will grow again somewhere else, in another world. So, when I die, it is to this place that I want to go, where forests live in peace.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470048968940,"sku":"9781617803437","price":84.87,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781617803437-antonio-carlos-jobim.jpg?v=1775209593","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/antonio-carlos-jobim-9781617803437","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}