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...joke, a wedge, a way of separating English-language performers from the rest of the planet. But there has always been crossover. In 1958 Dean Martin scored a hit with the Italian tune Volare; in 1967 Frank Sinatra recorded an album of songs by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim. Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love is based on the 18th century French ballad Plaisir d'amour. Such music became world music only when darker-skinned folks sang...
...think of Brazil without feeling certain rhythms. In the early 20th century, the country gave the world warmhearted samba and such performers as Carmen Miranda and Ary Barroso; in the 1950s and '60s it was soft-swaying bossa nova and Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, Joao and Astrud Gilberto. Then, in the late 1960s and '70s, the Tropicalia movement marched in, armed with rock guitars and rebel lyrics and led by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa...
...essence comes across most viscerally on the great Antonio Carlos Jobim song Waters of March, which she sang in her own translation from the Portuguese (one of her five or six languages). Her version, so intimate with the song's poetry that it even became a hit in Jobim's Brazil, contains at the core of its large-hearted refrain a line that reads, "It's the promise of spring, it's the end of despair, it's the joy in your heart." How I wish she had been singing it last weekend...
...Castro's new album Samba Raro ranks as one of the finest solo debuts in South or North America in recent memory. De Castro, 28, makes beat-blending music. Drawing from bossa nova, soul, drum 'n' bass and other styles, he sways softly like Tom Jobim and breaks off street beats that would do Dr. Dre proud...
...outside world that ends with a display of how foreigners are screwing up the music of Brazil. There's a certain poetry to it all. I need some poetry to wrap this all up. It would have been completely perfect if the airplane speakers had been playing another Jobim song, "Corcovado." After all, I've returned to "Corcovado," the song and the mountain, several times in my reports. So why not end with a quote...