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CHRONOLOGY |
| English translation by Teresa Abucham and Luiz Roberto Oliveira / S. Paulo, Brasil | |||
| Date | Description | ||
| 0000 | Date unknown: Tom Jobim wrote the sound track for the movie "Erotique", directed by Ana Maria Magalhães. | ||
| Mar 05, 1887 | Heitor Villa-Lobos is born at Ipiranga Street, in Laranjeiras neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro. Son of Noemia and Raul Villa-Lobos, Heitor is considered the greatest of Brazilian Composers. | ||
| Oct 19, 1913 | Poet Vinicius de Moraes is born | ||
| Dec 12, 1915 | Frank Sinatra is born. | ||
| Jan 25, 1927 | Tom Jobim is born at home at Rua Conde do Bonfim, 634, Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Parents: Jorge Jobim and Nilza Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim. | ||
| Feb 14, 1927 | Newton Mendonça is born at Rua Capitão Resende 78, Cachambi, Rio de Janeiro. | ||
| Apr 29, 1930 | Claus Ogerman is born in Ratibor, Germany (now Raciborz, Poland) Reproduced from http://www.spaceagepop.com: Along with Lalo Schifrin, Ogerman created some of the fruggin'-best arrangements of the "now sound." His two mid-60s instrumental albums for RCA--Watusi Trumpets and Saxes Mexicano--are well worth looking for, as are his arrangements for Cal Tjader's "Soul Sauce"-era albums on Verve. Ogerman studied classical piano in Nuremberg after graduating from gymnasium, then joined Kurt Edelhagen's pioneering German jazz band. He spent five years with rival bandleader Max Greger, during which time he began doing arrangements and composed scores for 14 German films. In 1959, he emigrated to the U.S. and worked for television and recording studios as a commercial arranger. By 1963, he had become something of a house arranger for Verve, where he worked on albums by Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Tjader. He then moved with producer Creed Taylor to Herb Alpert's A&M label, where he worked with Paul Desmond and others. By the end of the 60s, he began moving away from commercial work and concentrated on his own compositions and recordings. He recorded intermittently for a variety of jazz labels, mostly complex pieces for larger ensembles. | ||
| 1931 | The family moves to the Ipanema neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro. | ||
| Feb 23, 1931 | Tom's only sister, Helena, is born. | ||
| Jun 10, 1931 | João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira is born in Juazeiro, Bahia, Brasil. | ||
| Jul 19, 1935 | Jorge Jobim, Tom's father, passes away at 47. | ||
| 1937 | Nilza, Tom's mother, marries Celso Frota Pessoa. | ||
| 1937 | Tom Jobim attends the preparatory year for the first grade ("Curso de admissão ao ginásio", in Portuguese), at Externato Mello e Souza, in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. | ||
| 1938 | Tom takes an entrance examination at Externato Mello e Souza, in Copacabana and there attends the first grade. He fails and is transferred to Colégio Andrews. | ||
| 1939 | Again Tom does the first grade, but this time at Colégio Andrews, Praia do Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. In 1940, he passes to the second grade. | ||
| 1941 | He starts piano lessons with Hans Joachim Koellreuter. | ||
| 1946 | Tom enters the School of Architecture. But he leaves college the same year and gives up architecture. | ||
| Oct 15, 1949 | Marriage of Tom and Thereza Hermanny. | ||
| Aug 04, 1950 | Tom's first son, Paulo, is born. | ||
| 1952 | Tom starts working at Continental Records. | ||
| 1952 | Tom meets Billy Blanco. | ||
| 1953 | Tom and his wife Thereza rent an apartment at Rua Nascimento Silva, 107, in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. | ||
| Apr 1953 | First recording of Tom's songs: "Incerteza" (Tom Jobim / Newton Mendonça). Sung by Mauricy Moura. 78 rpm vinyl record, Sinter Recording Company, number 0000217. | ||
| Jun 1953 | Second recording of Tom's songs: "Pensando em você" (Tom Jobim); "Faz uma semana" (Tom Jobim and João Stockler). Sung by Ernani Filho. 78 rpm vinyl record, Sinter Recording Company, number 0000236. | ||
| 1954 | Dick Farney and Lúcio Alves record "Tereza da Praia," which became Tom's first success. Billy Blanco wrote the lyrics. | ||
| 1954 | Release of the LP "Sinfonia do Rio de Janeiro," by Tom and Billy Blanco. | ||
| 1954 | Tom meets Vinicius de Moraes. | ||
| 1956 | He starts working at Odeon Record Company, as artistic director. | ||
| Apr 1956 | Beginning of the partnership of Tom and Vinicius de Moraes. Vinicius meets Jobim at the Villarino Bar, in Rio de Janeiro, and invites him to write the music for the theater play "Orfeu da Conceição". | ||
| Sep 25, 1956 | Première of the play "Orfeu da Conceição," by Tom and Vinicius de Moraes, at the Municipal Theater, in Rio de Janeiro. | ||
| 1956 | Release of LP "Orfeu da Conceição", in partnership with Vinicius de Moraes. | ||
| 1956 | Silvia Telles records the samba-canção (slow samba) "Foi a noite," by Jobim and Newton Mendonça. | ||
| Mar 11, 1957 | Beginning of the recording of the LP "Carícia," at Odeon Studio. Sung by Silvia Telles. Recording takes up to May 20, 1957. | ||
| Aug 26, 1957 | Elisabeth, the second child, is born. | ||
| 1958 | Tom composed the sound track of Haroldo Costa's film "Pista de Grama." The song, unheard until then, "Eu Não Existo Sem Você" by Tom and Vinicius was sung by Elizete Cardoso, with Tom on the piano and João Gilberto on the guitar. | ||
| Apr 1958 | Release of the album "Canção do Amor Demais", featuring the female singer Elizete Cardoso. The songs are by Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes. For the first time, the fabulous guitar of João Gilberto can be heard on tracks "Chega de Saudade" and "Outra Vez". | ||
| 1958 | João Gilberto records the 78 rpm record with the songs "Desafinado" and "Chega de Saudade". | ||
| 1959 | Release of the LP "Chega de Saudade", featuring João Gilberto. Arrangements and musical direction: Antonio Carlos Jobim. | ||
| 1959 | Silvia Telles records the album "Amor de Gente Moça", with nine unplished songs by Tom. | ||
| Apr 1959 | Release of the album "Por Toda a Minha Vida," with songs by Tom and Vinicius, intepreted by the soprano Lenita Bruno. Orchestra under direction of Leo Peracchi. | ||
| Nov 17, 1959 | Heitor Villa-Lobos passes away in Rio de Janeiro. | ||
| 1960 | Tom Jobim is invited by the TV producers Carlos Thiré and Walter Arruda to host the weekly TV show "O Bom Tom," on channel 5 in São Paulo. | ||
| 1960 | Tom and Vinicius de Moraes write "Brasília, Sinfonia da Alvorada". | ||
| Nov 22, 1960 | Newton Mendonça dies at age 33. | ||
| 1961 | Tom writes the sound track for the film "Porto das Caixas", directed by Paulo Cesar Saraceni. | ||
| 1962 | Together with Vinicius de Moraes, Tom composes "Garota de Ipanema". | ||
| 1962 | Tom and Thereza move to a house on Rua Barão da Torre, in Ipanema. | ||
| 1962 | Jobim makes his debut as a singer, in a record. In the LP "Herbie Mann e João Gilberto", he sang "Samba de uma nota só". A few tracks recorded in Brazil had the participation of guitarist Baden Powell. In the same year, he sang also in the show at Carnegie Hall, New York. The concert was recorded, but no album has been released. | ||
| Aug 02, 1962 | A musical show is presented at the restaurant Au Bon Gourmet, on Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana, Rio, featuring Tom, Vinicius de Moraes, João Gilberto and the vocal group Os Cariocas. On the bass, Otavio Bailly and on the drums, Milton Banana. Some songs which, later on, became successes were premièred in the show: "Só Danço Samba," by Tom and Vinicius; "Samba do Avião," by Tom; and "Garota de Ipanema," by Tom and Vinicius. For that occasion, the song "Garota de Ipanema" had a special introduction in the form of a dialogue, sung by Tom, Vinicius and João:
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| Nov 21, 1962 | Bossa Nova Show at Carnegie Hall, New York. Tom travels to America for the first time. | ||
| 1963 | Release of the LP "The Composer of Desafinado Plays". | ||
| 1963 | In New York, Tom tries to record and release his songs in the USA. | ||
| 1964 | The LP "The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim" is released. | ||
| May 16, 1964 | Tom travels to New York to deal business affairs about his music publishing house, Corcovado Music. | ||
| Jul 30, 1964 | Tom returns to Brazil. | ||
| 1964 | The LP "Caymmi Visita Tom" is released. | ||
| Dec 1964 | Tom travels to Los Angeles. He works with Ray Gilbert translating his songs into English. | ||
| 1965 | The LP "A Certain Mr. Jobim" is released. | ||
| Aug 30, 1966 | Tom arrives in Los Angeles, California, for his first recording with Frank Sinatra. | ||
| Dec 19, 1966 | The female singer Silvia Telles dies in a car accident. | ||
| Jan 30, 1967 | Tom starts recording his first album with Frank Sinatra: "Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim." | ||
| Feb 1967 | Sound track for the movie "Garota de Ipanema," directed by Leon Hirszman. The recordings included three orchestra arrangements based on the original theme of "The Girl from Ipanema". A Long Play record was released at that time. | ||
| 1968 | At the III International Song Festival, in Rio de Janeiro, Tom and Chico Buarque present the song "Sabiá", which wins the first prize. | ||
| 1969 | Tom writes the sound track for the film "Os Aventureiros" (The Adventurers). The sound track was recorded in London with arrangements and conducting by Eumir Deodato. | ||
| 1970 | Wrote the sound track for the movie "Tempo de mar" (The time of the sea), directed by Pedro de Moraes. | ||
| 1970 | Release of the LP "Stone Flower", arranged by Eumir Deodato. | ||
| 1971 | Tom creates the sound track for the film "A Casa Assassinada" (The Murdered House), directed by Paulo Cesar Saraceni. | ||
| 1971 | Frank Sinatra records the LP "Sinatra & Cia" with five songs by Tom, and arrangements by Eumir Deodato. | ||
| May 1972 | Release of a 45 rpm vinyl record, included in a special issue of the weekly satiric bulletin "O Pasquim", titled "Disco de Bolso - O tom de Antonio Carlos Jobim e o tal de João Bosco". This record contains the first recording of the song "Águas de Março" (Waters of March). | ||
| 1973 | The LP "Matita Perê" is released. | ||
| Feb 23, 1973 | Tom's first grandchild, Daniel, Paulo Jobim's son, is born. | ||
| 1974 | The LP "Elis & Tom" is released. | ||
| 1974 | Show "Elis & Tom", at the Bandeirantes Theatre, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Featuring the Brazilian female singer Elis, orchestra under the direction of Leo Peracchi, and Cesar Mariano with band. | ||
| Oct 16, 1975 | Recording of the LP "Urubu" begins. The album becomes ready on October 23, 1975. | ||
| 1976 | Tom meets the photographer Ana Beatriz Lontra, 19 years old, who later on would become his second wife. | ||
| May 06, 1976 | Dora, Paulo's second child and Tom's granddaughter, is born. | ||
| 1978 | With singer Miucha, Tom records the LP "Miucha & Antonio Carlos Jobim." | ||
| May 1978 | Tom and Ana Beatriz Lontra go to New York on their honeymoon. They stay at the Adams Hotel. | ||
| Dec 1978 | Tom and Ana rent a house on Rua Peri, in Jardim Botanico neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, where they live for six years. | ||
| 1979 | Jobim records another LP with Miucha. One of the songs is "Dinheiro em Penca," which lasts 9'43". Composer and lyricist Chico Buarque, Miucha's brother, takes part. | ||
| Feb 02, 1979 | Tom's stepfather, Celso Frota Pessoa, passes away at 68. | ||
| Oct 30, 1979 | Tom and Ana Lontra Jobim's son, João Francisco, is born. | ||
| 1980 | The LP "Terra Brasilis" is released. | ||
| Jul 09, 1980 | Vinicius de Moraes passes away. | ||
| 1981 | Wrote the sound track for the movie "Eu te amo" (I love you), directed by Arnaldo Jabor. | ||
| 1982 | Tom is invited by movie producer Luiz Carlos Barreto to create the sound track for the film "Gabriela", directed by Bruno Barreto. | ||
| 1983 | He writes the sound track of the film "Gabriela". | ||
| 1983 | Tom and Chico Buarque create the music for the film "Para Viver Um grande Amor" (How to live a great love), directed by Miguel Faria. | ||
| 1984 | He is invited by the director Marco Altberg to compose the sound track of the film "Fonte de Saudade," based on the novel "Trilogia do Assombro," by Helena Jobim, Tom's sister. | ||
| 1984 | Tom writes the sound track for the film "O Tempo e o Vento," based on a novel by Brazilian writer Érico Veríssimo. | ||
| 1984 | Tom puts together the Nova Banda (New Band), with Paulo Jobim (guitar); Danilo Caymmi (voice and flute); Jacques Morelenbaum (cello); Tião Neto (bass); Paulo Braga (drums), and a choir with Ana Jobim, Elizabeth Jobim, Paula Morelenbaum, Maucha Adnet, and Simone Caymmi. | ||
| Mar 29, 1985 | On March 29 and 30, Tom and the Nova Banda (New Band) play at the Carnegie Hall, in New York. | ||
| Jul 18, 1985 | Tom and the Nova Banda (New Band), play at the opening of the Jazz Festival of Montreux, in Switzerland. A participation of João Gilberto in the show had been scheduled, but actually didn't take place. Antonio Carlos Jobim (voc, p), Danilo Caymmi (voc, fl), Paulo Jobim (ac, g, dx7), Tiao Neto (b), Paulinho Braga (dr), Jacques Morelenbaum (cello), Ana Lontra Jobim (back voc), Elizabeth Jobim (back voc), Maucha Adnet (back voc), Paula Morelenbaum (back voc), Simone Caymmi (back voc) | ||
| 1986 | Wrote the sound track for the movie "Brasa Adormecida", directed by Djalma Limonji Batista. | ||
| Apr 30, 1986 | Tom and Ana get married. | ||
| 1987 | The LP "Passarim" is released. | ||
| Mar 20, 1987 | His fourth daugther, Maria Luiza Helena, is born. | ||
| May 1987 | The recording of the LP for CBPO - Companhia Brasileira de Projetos e Obras - commences. | ||
| Nov 17, 1989 | Nilza, Tom's mother, passes away. | ||
| Sep 07, 1992 | Antonio Carlos Jobim plays with the Banda Nova (New Band) at El Auditorio de la Cartuja, in Sevilla, Spain. | ||
| Sep 11, 1992 | Concert featuring Jobim and his New Band (Nova Banda) at the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, in Lisbon, Portugal. | ||
| 1993 | He appears on a TV special with Milton Nascimento for TV Bandeirantes. | ||
| 1994 | The CD "Antonio Brasileiro" is released. | ||
| Apr 1994 | He stars with Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock at Carnegie Hall. | ||
| May 1994 | Tom travels to Paris with Gilda Mattoso. A few days later, he and his band play in Jerusalem. | ||
| Oct 1994 | Antonio Carlos Jobim and his son Paulo Jobim participate in the recording of Fly Me To The Moon, for the album b>Duets II, with Frank Sinatra. | ||
| Dec 08, 1994 | Tom Jobim, at age 67, dies at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. | ||
| 1995 | Two CDs in one package are released under the name of "Tom Jobim - Inédito". The two records were originally made for CBPO in 1987. | ||
| Nov 28, 1996 | Helena Jobim publishes Tom's biography, "Um Homem Iluminado" (An Enlightened Man). | ||
| 1997 | The play "Orfeu da Conceição", by Vinicius de Moraes, with music by Jobim and Moraes, is staged at the Paulo Eiró Theatre, in São Paulo, Brasil, under the direction of Aroldo Costa. | ||
| Feb 1997 | The label Revivendo, from Curitiba, Paraná State, releases the CD "My first steps and measures" (Meus primeiros passos e compassos), containing the first recordings of Jobim's songs. | ||
| Dec 1997 | "Antonio Carlos Jobim - Uma Biografia (A Biography)" by Sergio Cabral is published. | ||
| Jun 1998 | MoviePlay Record Company releases a CD version of the LP album "Canção do Amor Demais", featuring the singer Elizete Cardoso. The original recording was made in 1958. | ||
| Jul 21, 1998 | JoãoFrancisco, Tom and Ana Jobim's first son (and Tom's third), dies at 18 in Rio de Janeiro, in a car accident. The car was his mother's birthday present a week before the accident. | ||
| May 2000 | "Raros Compassos"(Rare Measures) is the title of the box with three CDs containing songs that Jobim wrote in the beginning of his career. Several artists are featured. Revivendo Recording Co., Curitiba, Paraná. | ||
| Aug 2000 | Release of the CD "Tom Canta Vinicius" (Tom sings Vinicius), live recording of a concert at the Bank of Brazil Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, on January 1990. | ||
| Dec 2000 | Release in Brasil of the first volume of the Cancioneiro Jobim (Jobim Song Collection). This luxury edition contains 42 scores of Jobim's songs, written for piano, a biography, and photos. | ||
| Jan 12, 2001 | Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer, dies in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Bonfá and Jobim used to be good friends and wrote a few songs together, most of them having nature and ecology as main motif. Also passes away the Brazilian athlete Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, twice Olimpics winner of the triple jump. Adhemar participated as an actor in première of the theater play "Orfeu da Conceição", in Rio de Janeiro, on September 1956. The play was written by Vinicius de Moraes, and Tom Jobim wrote the music. Luiz Bonfá played accoustic guitar in the orchestra. | ||
| Jan 25, 2001 | I love you, São Paulo (Te amo São Paulo) An yet unpublished song by Jobim is premiered on Brazilian TV. The composer and his New Band were planning to record it since 1992, with the intention of selling it for advertising. The song has been in the archives of a recording studio in S. Paulo until it was bought by Morumbi Shopping to be used in a TV commercial. The advertisement was aired on the date of the 447th. anniversary of the city of São Paulo, which coincides with Tom Jobim's birthday. | ||
| Jun 2001 | Death of Tião Neto, brilliant Brazilian bass player, who used to play with the "New Band" of Antonio Carlos Jobim during many years. | ||
| Jun 10, 2001 | João Gilberto's 70th birthday. | ||
| Aug 25, 2001 | Concert at the Sesc Pompeia Theatre, in Sao Paulo, in homage to the arranger and conductor Leo Peracchi. The show featured seven female singers from Sao Paulo, interpreting the songs of the LP "Por toda minha vida" (Through all my life), first released in 1959. The thirteen songs in the LP were written by Jobim and poet Vinicius de Moraes, with orchestra arrangements by Leo Peracchi. Music direction by Luiz Roberto Oliveira, concept and general direction by Eduardo Gudin. | ||
| Oct 17, 2001 | On the tracks of Tom Jobim - music, poems, nature Exposition at the Rio Design Barra shopping, Rio de Janeiro, spreading through and area of 5000 square meters, on the works and life of Antonio Carlos Jobim. Lectures, videos, music recordings, manuscripts. The show stayed on through January 2002. | ||
| Apr 11, 2002 | Música, Poesia e Natureza (Music, Poetry and Nature: Exposition featuring music, photos and videos of Jobim at the Sesc Vila Mariana, in S. Paulo, Brazil, from April 11, 2002 through May 12, 2002. | ||
| Apr 22, 2002 | The official site of Antonio Carlos Jobim makes its debut on the Internet. | ||
| Dec 09, 2002 | Jobim's Orchestral Pieces: some of the most important orchestral works composed by Jobim and orchestrated by himself and other arrangers were presented in two concerts on December 9 and 11, with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Roberto Minczuk. The project was supervised by Mario Adnet and Paulo Jobim. The presentions took place at the São Paulo Symphony Hall, in São Paulo, Brazil. Some guest singers and musicians like Milton Nascimento, Maucha Adnet, Muiza Adnet, Nailor Proveta, and Benjamim Taubkin, performed with the orchestra. The concerts were recorded for a CD and DVD release, due on the second quarter of 2003. Read also: Tom Jobim and his arrangers and the concert programs. |
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