Grupo Bossa present
JOBIM: The Birth of Bossa Nova
Celebrating
The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim.
“Grupo Bossa encompass a truly authentic flavour and traditional passion in their music, providing the perfect backdrop to Carmelia’s compelling, no nonsense vocals. A joy of a performance.”
Andy Shaw, Promoter
“…absolutely delightful… what a fabulous sound!”
Colin Webb, Southside Arts
Grupo Bossa present ‘JOBIM: The Birth of Bossa Nova’, celebrating the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim. This show’s repertoire is mostly from the early ‘60s, centring on the 1964 landmark ‘Getz/Gilberto’ album: A record that brought bossa nova to the world and made international stars of not only Jobim himself, but also the American saxophonist, Stan Getz and Brazilian music legend, Joao Gilberto.
The recordings also catapulted into the limelight Joao’s wife, Astrud Gilberto, who became the impromptu female voice to one of the most recorded songs in history. Comprising highly experienced jazz musicians, Grupo Bossa is fronted by the brilliant Carmelia Marques, who delivers these songs with equal grace in both English and their traditional Portuguese.
‘Grupo Bossa bring to life the intimacy and honest, simple beauty of bossa nova, in honour of one of the most important songwriters of the 20th century.‘
Grupo Bossa: The Band
Featuring the vocal talents of Portugal’s Carmelia Marques, backed by specialist ensembles including Porto’s own maestro of jazz, Fino Lopes on guitar and bass. Fino holds two music degrees in composition – one jazz and one classical – and operates very much as our musical director and arranger. The band is led by Midlands world music percussionist, Lee Boyd Allatson on drums who is the producer of the JOBIM show. Grupo Bossa is completed with Leeds Jazz course alumni, Ryan West on tenor sax and the Leicestershire jazz scene’s go-to pianist, Peter Houtman.
The player’s credits include appearances with Jazz Colossus, Alan Skidmore, David Murray, Prince Buster, Liane Carroll, Tom Grennan, Symphonica, Dawn Penn, Dick Pearce and Beatles producer George Martin!