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Laurindo Almeida (Ca. 1947)

Laurindo Almeida (Born September 2, 1917 in Miracatú, São Paulo, † July 26, 1995 in Los Angeles) was a Brazilian jazz guitarist, classic guitarist and composer living in the USA. He was awarded the Grammy five times [first] And contributed significantly to the popularization of the Bossa Novas. [2]

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Almeida was introduced to the music by his mother, a concert pianist. He learned the guitar with the help of different teachers and sometimes autodidactically. At the age of 19 he traveled to Europe and was influenced by Django Reinhardt’s music in Paris. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he returned to Brazil and formed a guitar duo with the guitarist Garoto. In 1947 he worked in the band of singer Carmen Miranda. This work led him to the USA, where he became a studio musician for film soundtracks in Hollywood. During this time he also composed for films for the first time. In the movie A Star Is Born For example, he also plays guitar in the composition Flemish love . At the end of his life there were over 800 film music for him.

In 1953/54 he was band leader of “Brazilliance”, a precursor group of L.A. 4. [3] At the end of the 1950s he recorded several albums with the mezzo -soprano Salli Terri.

Almeida, connected as a guitarist of Latin American music, was one of the first to make the Bossa Nova popular in the USA. Just a few months after the publication of Jazz Samba by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, the first Bossa Nova album of the American jazz scene, he published at the end of 1962 Long live bossa nova! , which achieved a place in the top 10 of the US charts the following year. [2] None of his other albums could repeat this success or reach the charts again. Nevertheless, he was still successful in the music business, recorded several albums and won a total of five Grammys. Including for the album Guitar From Ipanema (1964), on which, among other things, two songs Irene Kral appeared as a singer. Part of his albums in those years can also be assigned to easy listening and included bossa-Nova or Latin pieces but also interpretations of various pop hits or musical melodies. [4] His record shots with other artists, an album with Stan Getz in 1963, were also outstanding, in the same year Softly, The Brazilian Sound With the pop singer Joanie Sommers or 1966 a common work with Sammy Davis, Jr. 1968 followed an album, Spiced With Brasil , with the folk singer Nancy Ames.

His recordings were published on Capitol, Coral and Pacific Jazz. He toured the Modern Jazz Quartet for many years, with which he, among other things, Aranjuez’s concert [5] recording. In the 1970s he was very successful with the group The L. A. 4 (with Bud Shank, Ray Brown and Jeff Hamilton).

Since the 1950s he lived exclusively in Los Angeles until his death. Almeida died of leukemia. [6]

  • Concerto No. 1 (Ed. 1979)
  • Dreadm em copacabana (1957)
  • Prelude and Tremolo (1956)
  • Invention in Two Parts (1956)
  • Flemish love (1954)
  • Lobiana (Ed. 1949) [7]
  • Guitar Tutor. An Up-To-Date Classic Guitar Method. A Complete Method in Three Courses. English processing from American by Jack Duarte. Criterion Music Corp., New York 1957.
  • Guitar Solos. All solos transcribed as recorded by Laurindo Almeida on Capitol Records. Criterion, New York.
  • Guitar bag. 6 solos for guitar. Criterion, New York.
  • Michael H. Goldsen: Preface. In: Laurindo Almeida: Guitar Tutor. An Up-To-Date Classic Guitar Method. A Complete Method in Three Courses. English processing by Jack Duarte. Criterion Music Corp., New York 1957, p. I (also further information: pp. 83–90).
  1. ↑ Laurindo Almeida, Grammy.com. Accessed on April 24, 2022 .
  2. ↑ a b Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Albums 1955–2001. Billboard/Record Research, 2001, ISBN 0-89820-147-0
  3. ↑ Alexander Schmitz: The guitar in jazz. Additional considerations about J.E. Berendt’s article. In: Guitar & sounds. Band 5, 1983, Lakes 6, S. 82–84, here: S. 83.
  4. ↑ Laurindo Almeida. Accessed on April 24, 2022 .
  5. ↑ Hannes Fricke: Myth guitar: history, interpreters, star hours. Claim, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-020279-1, S. 197.
  6. ↑ Peter Watrous: Laurindo Almeida, Guitarist, 77; Mixed Pop and Jazz . In: The New York Times . 1. August 1995, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed on April 24, 2022]).
  7. ↑ Abel Nagytothy-Toth: Guitar and lute and orchestra. A preliminary compilation. In: Guitar & sounds. Band 6, 1984, Lakes 4, S. 49–53, here: S. 50.

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