Bossa Nova Documentary
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The great Caetano Veloso has called Bossa Nova "a form of high modernist art." His idol Joao Gilberto has been called the founding father of Bossa Nova. He invented an entirely new way of playing the guitar with a syncopated rhythm and sang with a soft voice. All this was musically revolutionary. Gilberto allowed his drumming partner Milton Banana to accompany him so long as he played the drums softly. This was accomplished with a small brush upon the cymbal and a drumstick against the rim of the drum, creating the now familiar rim click. All this created the rhythmic template for all Bossa's to follow.
In my opinion, it is incorrect to say that the age of Bossa Nova ended in the 1960s. To the contrary, the writing team of Toquinho, who wrote the music, and Vinicius de Moraes, who wrote the lyrics, had an astoundingly brilliant body of work right to end of the 1970s until Vinicius passing in 1979. This forum may be familiar with Brasil 77's 1971 version of their composition "A Tonga."
In my opinion, it is incorrect to say that the age of Bossa Nova ended in the 1960s. To the contrary, the writing team of Toquinho, who wrote the music, and Vinicius de Moraes, who wrote the lyrics, had an astoundingly brilliant body of work right to end of the 1970s until Vinicius passing in 1979. This forum may be familiar with Brasil 77's 1971 version of their composition "A Tonga."
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