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Laurindo Almeida (1917 – 1995)
Laurindo Almeida was truly incomparable. One of the world's
foremost great concert guitarists, he played dozens of concerts
performing the works of the masters. Yet in 1964 and 1992 he
toured much of the world as featured soloist with the Modern
Jazz Quartet. His versatility was exciting !
He brought Bossa Nova to the United States long before it was
called that. He has scored many films, often composing, then
playing his own music, and his famed recordings include
everything from Bach to a beautiful solo album of Broadway
favorites. Each of these things he did superbly, for he was
unique among guitarists, and was so acclaimed by audiences and
critics alike.
Almeida was born in Săo Paulo, Brazil of a musical family. He
move to the United States in 1947, having already become one of
Brazil's most famous musicians, admired even then by every kind
of audience.
As a young musician touring Paris, Almeida became enamored with
the legendary jazz stylist Django Reinhardt, and the music of
this great innovator stayed with him. Upon coming to Hollywood
his interest in the things that were happening in American jazz
led him to Stan Kenton and a new career.
The Kenton orchestra, always famous for its innovation, gained
quickly and handsomely by a kind of guitar music it has never
heard before - a cool, quiet sound, spectacular in its
brilliance. As a featured jazz soloist, Chicago Opera House and
Carnegie Hall found Laurindo composing "Amazonia" and Pete
Rugulo composing "Lament" for their history-making concerts.
Even today, jazz guitarists are still studying and being
influenced by the standards he set in the early Kenton days.
In 1950, Laurindo Almeida left Kenton to play concerts, to
record and to compose; he has written more than 200 compositions
among them his "First Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra" which
he recorded for the Concord label. This was the beginning of yet
another career, for through his early classical recordings for
Capitol and Decca his fame as concert artist began to spread,
first in the U.S. then the world over. He is credited with the
American debut recordings of works by two of Brazil's greatest
composers: Villa-Lobos "Guitar Concerto" and Radames Gnattali's
"Concerto de Copacabana".
Almeida is a proud possessor of the certificate of Honor from
the Achievement Recognition Institute for having the distinction
of becoming a reference file within the The Library of Congress
in Washington DC. Besides being a consistent winner in both the
Down Beat and Playboy magazine Jazz Polls and Movie Polls winner
since 1947 he has been nominated by the Academy of recording
Arts and Sciences fifteen times and has won, five times, the
desired Grammy Award. One of the Grammy Awards was for his
composition "Discantus" which tied with Igor Stravinsky for best
contemporary composition. For years he was listed in "Who's Who
in America" and the International Biographical Centre. In 1977,
he was awareded the Certificate of Appreciation from the
American String Teachers Association for "A lifetime of
dedicated and distinguished service to the guitar in the United
States".
In 1983 he was presented the Vahdah Olcot-Bickford Memorial
Award by the American Guitar Society on their 60th aniversary;
for his "illustrious career as a performer and composer and his
dedicated promotion of the music of the Americas which has been
a major force in developing universal appreciation of the
classical guitar in popular, contemporary and classical music".
In 1992 the Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Society
conferred their award to him in London, England in recognition
of his "great talent as a composer and performer". In 1993 the
same Society presented he and his wife in a concert at the
prestigious Wigmore Hall in London.
When you hear the movie music for great films such as "The Agony
and the Ecstasy", "A Star Is Born", "The Old Man and The Sea",
"Godfather", "Camelot", "Wagon Train", "Bonanza", the Oscar
winning "Unforgiven" and many other films and television shows,
remember the name Laurindo Almeida. He was the genius who played
the guitar music for the underscoring. A short subject film
entitled "Magic Pear Tree" for which he both composed and played
the music was another Oscar winner!
In 1971, Almeida married Deltra Eamon, lyric soprano from
Canada. Today, Deltra, a citizen of the United States make her
home in Sherman Oaks, California.
Laurindo Almeida passed away on July 26, 1995 in Los Angeles,
California and was nearly 78 years of age.
SOURCE:
http://www.laurindoalmeida.com
Laurindo Almeida with The Modern Jazz Quartet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-9OrHd6QdM
Laurindo Almeida with One Note Samba
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yix7_fnhshk
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