Ode to Bossa NovaTom Jobim Centenary w/ Will Santt
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- Will Santt
Price
Standing Tickets: £20 Restaurant Tickets: £20-£60
Doors
18:30-22:00
Age Requirements
18+
A century after Tom Jobim’s birth in Rio, Will Santt takes on the songbook that still defines bossa nova.
Born in the late 1950s, the sound slowed samba down and laced it with jazz harmonies and soft, hushed vocals. Jobim was its chief composer, and his songs carried it overseas, changing how the world heard Brazil.
Getz/Gilberto took his ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ into the charts and won Album of the Year at the Grammys, and ‘Águas de Março’ was later voted the best Brazilian song of all time. Sixty years on, few sing these songs as naturally as Brazil’s heir to bossa nova, Will Santt, who delivers a performance as intimate as the music itself.
A century after Tom Jobim’s birth in Rio, Will Santt takes on the songbook that still defines bossa nova.
Born in the late 1950s, the sound slowed samba down and laced it with jazz harmonies and soft, hushed vocals. Jobim was its chief composer, and his songs carried it overseas, changing how the world heard Brazil.
Getz/Gilberto took his ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ into the charts and won Album of the Year at the Grammys, and ‘Águas de Março’ was later voted the best Brazilian song of all time. Sixty years on, few sing these songs as naturally as Brazil’s heir to bossa nova, Will Santt, who delivers a performance as intimate as the music itself.