speaking of Traffic:
the first time music hits the screen, it is really quite something. its
unexpected, gorgeous, lush...
but they play the same cut throughout the whole movie, and it just gets
played.
shane
> -----Original Message-----
> From: adario [mailto:adario@thingsburnup.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 4:06 PM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu; Gen Kanai
> Subject: Re: Luis Bonfa, orfeu negro & other films
>
>
> as a tribute, i can't recommend enough checkin the classic film "orfeu
> negro" aka "black orpheus".
>
> and while i'm on the flick tip, if you've seen "gladiator" then i can't
> stress enough to see "spartacus". it's like colin powell versus malcom x.
>
> and "crouching tiger, hidden dragon" was DOOOOPE! soundtrack by yo-yo ma!
>
> and also, anybody else get the rerelease of "les stances a sophie" by art
> ensemble of chicago? my favorite jazz album purchase since "headhunters".
> anybody see the film?
>
> fresh off a movie binge,
> adario
>
> next up, "traffic"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gen Kanai <gkanai@earthlink.net>
> To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:51 AM
> Subject: Luis Bonfa, guitarist who helped found Bossa Nova, dies at 78
>
>
> > Let's take a moment for this man who brought us so much wonderful music.
> >
> > Gen
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/01/12/brazil.obit.bonfa.ap/
> index.html
> >
> > Luis Bonfa, guitarist who helped found Bossa Nova, dies at 78
> > January 12, 2001
> > Web posted at: 1:15 PM EST (1815 GMT)
> >
> >
> > RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Luis Floriano Bonfa, the master guitarist
> > and composer who helped found Bossa Nova, died of cancer early Friday,
> > doctors said. He was 78.
> >
> > Born in Rio de Janeiro on October 17, 1922, Bonfa began composing in the
> > 1940s and launched his career as a solo artist in 1952.
> >
> > Better known abroad than in his home country, Bonfa became
> internationally
> > famous for his contributions to the soundtrack of the Marcel Camus' 1959
> > classic film "Black Orpheus."
> >
> > The film introduced an international audience to Bossa Nova -- a
> > more-sophisticated and less percussive samba style -- and made Bonfa and
> > fellow composer Antonio Carlos Jobim stars.
> >
> > "Bonfa plays the guitar like no other, in a very personal, charismatic
> > style. His guitar is a little orchestra," the late composer Jobim once
> said
> > of his colleague.
> >
> > His reputation grew further when he was a featured performer at
> the Bossa
> > Nova festival at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1962. He moved to
> the United
> > States shortly afterward, returning to Brazil only in 1973.
> >
> > Widely admired for his guitar work, Bonfa was perhaps even more
> famous for
> > his more than 500 compositions, including "Manha de Carnaval" and "Samba
> de
> > Orpheu."
> >
> > Placido Domingo, Julio Iglesias, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley were
> among
> > the artists who recorded songs written by Bonfa.
> >
> > He also performed with Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones,
> George Benson
> > and Stan Getz.
> >
> > In recent years, his productivity slowed somewhat. His last major label
> > release, "The Bonfa Magic," was record in 1991. In 1997, he recorded an
> > album "Almost in Love," together with the Brazilian singer Ithamara
> Koorax,
> > that was only available over the Internet.
> >
> > Bonfa will be buried later Friday. It was not immediately clear whether
> > Bonfa left any survivors.
> >
> > Copyright 2001 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
> >
>
>
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