The composer, who based the Bossa Rio Sextet with with Paulo Moura, efficiently blended bossa nova with American pop, funk and jazz fusion. He died in Los Angeles on Thursday, aged 83.
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A baby of Rio’s bay space, of the illuminations of Brazilian modernity revealed on the finish of the Fifties and past, Sergio Mendes, like a lot of his friends, ultimately abandoned, swept away by the USA, after the memorable 1962 live performance in Carnegie Corridor, New York, to advertise bossa-nova.
Rio’s “cool” music was then transmuted right into a pan-American style, underneath the affect of Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra. Mendes crafted a really North American sound, very brilliant, with an ethereal freshness not like another.
Brazil, offended, turned its again on him, earlier than attaching the definitive, and disdainful, label of “Americanized pop” to his music. He settled in California. Brazil did with out him, France cherished him, and everybody was joyful. “In the USA, I discovered the best market, the know-how, the complement to our pure romantic inspiration,” he informed Le Monde when his album Brasileiro was launched in 1992.
Since Brasil ’66, launched in 1966, with which the Brazilian, born on February 11, 1941, in Niteroi, had develop into one of many world’s best-selling data, he moved on, mixing bossa nova with American pop, funk with jazz fusion. Mendes died on Thursday, September 5, after a protracted battle with Covid. He was 83 years outdated.
American defector
Mendes had settled in Los Angeles and was one of many driving forces behind the back-and-forth between the jazz of the crooners of the late Fifties (Frank Sinatra, with whom he toured, Bing Crosby) and the music of the Southern Cone. The son of a health care provider and a gifted pianist from the age of seven, he recorded Dance moderno in 1961, that includes a transforming of João Gilberto’s Hô-bà-lá-lá. He then based the Bossa Rio Sextet with saxophonist Paulo Moura (1932-2010).
At 19, he performed with Cannonball Adderley, the US State Division’s particular envoy to Rio, accountable for worldwide relations and eager to determine the USA in Brazil by way of cultural gentle energy. The saxophonist took him into the studio to report Cannonball’s Bossa Nova (Harmony, 1962). The US acted as a magnet for the creators of bossa nova – Tom Jobim, João Gilberto and his spouse Astrud, Marcos Valle and Eumir Deodato all spent lengthy durations there.
Visiting Paris in 2015 along with his spouse, the singer Gracinha Leporace, whom he married 5 a long time in the past, Mendes, flowered shirt and good humor, spoke to us about his bossa years and his standing as an American defector. “As a conservatory scholar, I’d come from Niteroi [the town opposite Rio] by boat; there was no bridge throughout the bay but. We performed on the Bottles Bar in Copacabana, at Beco das Garrafas, with Tom Jobim, Jorge Ben, Nara Leão. I had been thrilled by a Dave Brubeck live performance. Artwork Tatum and Horace Silver have been our unknowing lecturers. We did not earn something, however there was a lot pleasure in enjoying such new music!”
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