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NEW YORK 2009
STRAND BOOKSTORE
TODAY AT 6:00 PM JEFF HARRIS PRESENTS
THE PIANIST SHOT Can you hear it okay? Yeah?
Well, let's get started,
Meet Jeff, Jeff Harris,
- Hello, - Author of the book
that we are going to present tonight,
Well, like many of you, I read
Jeff's article in The New Yorker
about the bossa nova craze in the
'50s, and I liked it so much,,,
- Thank you so much, - ,,,that I was left wanting more,
so I asked Jeff for something else,
I encouraged him to write a book about that
magical music that captivated the world and,
above all, many of us here in the United States,
Well, that was the initial idea, - Yeah,,,
And it seemed quite simple,
However, the story became complicated, let's put it that way,
- And so much, - And in my opinion, for the better,
Well, I could go on and on, but
I'd rather Jeff tell you everything,
So, without further ado,,,
Teacher,
Hello, Where do I begin,,,?
Well, logically, upon receiving Jessica's
offer, I accepted without thinking twice,
above all, because it included
three trips to Rio de Janeiro,
It was a unique opportunity to spend time
listening to music, something I love to do, meet
musicians and just walk around my favorite city,
- River, - Could not even use
the return ticket and stay there for a while,
Brilliant,
Well, as soon as my article in The New Yorker
was published, my mailbox began to fill up with
packages of records of all kinds of music, not
only Brazilian, but from all over the world,
I already take them, Thank you,
There were five days left before I went to Rio,
so I locked myself in the house to catch up and listen to music,
One day, a piano solo on a recording
from the '60s caught my attention,
I consulted the notes of the album
and saw a name that until then was
unknown to me: Tenório Júnior,
I wanted to know who this guy
was, this pianist I had never heard of,
What else had he done?
What was he doing now?
But it seems, She hadn't done anything in 30 years,
I figured he probably died
like most musicians in the
'70s: from drugs or a car
accident while on tour,
Ah, here it is!
This one here, please,
The next day, I met up for a drink with my good friend
João, who is one of the people I know who knows the most
about Brazilian music, and I often turn to him for help,
He gave me the names of people I
could talk to and also their phone numbers,
And as he always does,
he brought me gift records,
,,,from the 60s, which was
out of print, impossible to find,
I already have this one, By the way, who is this pianist?
I've never heard of him, Who is Tenório Júnior?
Tenório was one of the greatest exponents
of samba-jazz during the bossa nova years,
He was the most jazzy of the Brazilian pianists,
And what happened to him?
Died, and it's a pretty strange story,
He was in Buenos Aires, playing with Vinícius de
Moraes, when one night he suddenly disappeared,
Nobody heard from him again,
And how do you know he's dead?
Well, it happened during the military coup in Argentina,
Was he involved in politics or something?
I don't know,,,
Not that I know,
No, Not that I know of,
I would like to know more about him,
This was the Beco das Garrafas, The bottle alley,
Was this the Beco das Garrafas?
Samba-jazz was born here!
Why did they call him that?
Because so many people came that the neighbors
couldn't sleep and started throwing bottles at everyone,
There were only four small clubs,
Some were even whore bars,
There was the Bottle's club, and there, in front was Little's,,,
There, see? They belonged to Alberico
Campana, an Italian immigrant who had no money,
I didn't even know that Portuguese was spoken in Brazil,
-Do not tell me! - Yes, I thought we spoke Spanish,
He could tell you a lot of stories,
- Let's talk to him, - Nothing remains of those times,
It was a golden era that lasted only ten years,
They were all new kids,
The bossa nova movement began timidly,
It didn't catch on immediately,
Only among the same ones who made bossa nova,,,
but it started to grow and grow,,,
And there were 60 people inside and 1,000 people outside,
-Mother! - Of 1,000 people, 300 were musicians,
That's why I think it was something historic, because
there was a radical change in the music of that time,
That's all folks!
Ella Fitzgerald sang four days at the Copacabana Palace, and all
four days she ran out of there without doing an encore to go to Beco,
Everyone who came to Rio de Janeiro stopped by Beco,
It was a wonderful city, everyone happy,
everyone cheerful,,, Nothing was happening,
It was a totally strange, completely new thing,
The lyrics were completely new,
The music was completely new,
The way of singing was completely new,
and there was a guitar that no one played like that either,
Music wasn't made like that,
Before and after Chega de saudade, it was something else,
another thing, clearly, That's what happened with Chega de saudade,
I went crazy with all
that, with that poetry,,,
That's how it went, Chega de saudade changed my life,
Go away from me, sadness,
and tell her that without
her it cannot be,
Tell her in a prayer
that she comes back,
After that song, nothing was ever the same again,
The song was called Chega de saudade, No more
blues, and brought together the holy trinity
of the new Brazilian sound: João Gilberto, the
poet Vinícius de Moraes, who wrote the lyrics,
and Antonio Carlos Jobim, who was in
charge of the music and arrangements,
It was 1959, bossa nova in Brazil and
the nouvelle vague in France changed
the history of music and cinema,
And when the Brazilian musicians arrived
in New York for their legendary concert at
Carnegie Hall, there was no stopping them,
American musicians went completely
crazy for Brazilian music: Ella
Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Coleman
Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie
and, when Stan Getz recorded with João Gilberto,
they knocked the Beatles out of first place on the charts,
Even Frank Sinatra recorded two albums with
Jobim, which is not surprising, since the
precursors of bossa nova had been members of the
Frank Sinatra and Dick Farney fan club in Rio,
back in the 50's,
The whole world began to sing and dance to the rhythm of Brazilian music,
There hadn't been anything like it since the rise of mambo in the 1940s,
Everyone talks about the influence of
bossa nova on American music, but
bossa was also influenced by American
music, especially West Coast jazz,
When Elis Regina was asked which singer had influenced her the most, do you know who she said?
- No,
- Chet Baker said, -Do not tell me!
By the way, tomorrow they will screen a documentary
about Vinícius de Moraes, produced by his daughter,
It could be interesting,
If you want me to stop crying,
tell time to stop passing,
Time cries my own cry,
Him and me, but both,,,
so that you are not sad,
What I can do? Singing,
After Tenório's disappearance, my
father stayed in Buenos Aires for a while,
In fact, he had an Argentine girlfriend at the time,
The penultimate one, just before Gilda,
Another coincidence was that the counselor in Buenos
Aires when all this shit happened was my ex-husband Rodolfo,
My father asked him for help to
find Tenório, but it was impossible,
Has anyone told you about Malena?
Malena? Who is Malena? His wife from him?
- Well, not exactly, - He was married, right?
He had many children,,,
Yes, four, and I think they were expecting
the fifth, but I was also in love with Malena,
And why was he arrested? Because they killed him?
Nobody knows it for sure,
Apparently, Malena wasn't feeling well and he went
to the pharmacy to get some medicine, and that's it,
It just vanished, She left,
He disappeared,
I know her,
Do you want me to call her?
To Malena?
Did you know that Tenório was with another woman when he disappeared?
Yes of course,
Jeff, Gilda was Vinícius' last wife,
Just yesterday I was talking to Jeff about Tenório Junior,
It was a mystery, something very distressing for Vinícius,
It was very rare that a day went
by without Vinícius talking about
Tenório and that terrible episode,
He died with that anguish over Tenório's disappearance,
Malena doesn't want to talk about it,
She has been silent for 35 years out of respect for
the family and she is not going to start talking now,
I know some musicians who were friends of his,
If you want, you could try to locate his widow through them,
Well, rather, to his wife,
Since the body was never found, he did not receive
any compensation as a victim of the dictatorship,
He doesn't even receive a pension,
Can you believe it?
Oh,,,
- Hello, -Are you still here?
-João? - I just talked to a friend
who knows Tenório's wife, Carmen,
She told me that she lives in a small town in the middle of nowhere,
He doesn't even have a telephone,
You have to call a public phone booth, You understand me?
"He disappeared under strange circumstances,"
"Tortured and murdered,"
A few days later, I caught a flight to Tucson to meet with Bud
Shank, one of the great West Coast jazz stars along with Chet Baker,
He was the first to mix samba and jazz in the mid-50s,
Hello,
On the way home, Bud told me about those
pioneering recordings with Brazilian
guitarist Laurindo Almeida in Los Angeles,
I just arrived in Rio, I met,,,
I met a lot of people,
It was during the days of the carnival,
I arrived the day it started,
And I didn't know anyone in Rio,
The whole time I was there it was carnival,
There was carnival everywhere,
24 hours a day,
So I couldn't really know if Rio was
always like this or only during carnival,
It was like being in paradise,
I had never danced in the street in my life,
I had neither done it before nor have I done it again since,
Walking I entered a club
that was right next to my hotel,
I was very impressed with his
playing, which was very refreshing,
With a more contemporary, younger approach,
It was something new and wonderful,,,
Imagine my astonishment when he told
me that that pianist was Tenório Junior,
I don't know if Tenório was his first name or his last name,
I just,,, Everyone called him Tenório,
As I told you, he spoke English very well,
He was an intellectual,
He could talk about many topics and, above all, about music,
And he was younger than Jobim and all that group,
I really enjoyed playing with him, We talk a lot about samba,
He even told me that he wanted to take
me to the United States to play in his band,
,,,which never happened, Instead, Sérgio Mendes came,
Tenório no,
Sérgio Mendes wanted to be a pop star,
That was evident at the beginning,
Listening to him talk, at some
point I realized that I had no
idea what happened to Tenório,
I decided to tell him that he had
disappeared and that no one saw him
again, that they never found his body,
I had no idea about all that,
Wow, that's a horrible story,
- Yeah, - Tenório,,,
How strong,,,
Already, TRUE?
How awful,,,
I liked him very much, and I liked him as a person,
Why Tenório?
He took me back to the airport, but he didn't speak all the way,
Two weeks later, I returned to Rio,
I have organized a lot of interviews for
you, the who's who of Brazilian music,
Susana de Moraes also called me,
She wants you to go to dinner tonight,
Apparently, Malena has changed
her mind and now wants to talk to you,
Malena?
Malena, the girl who was with Tenório in Buenos Aires,
You want to talk to her, right?
AHA,
But first we have agreed to meet Ferreira Gullar,
Who is that?
He is a great poet,
He wrote Sujo Poem , Dirty Poem ,
He was a good friend of Vinícius and was
exiled in Buenos Aires when Tenório disappeared,
He could give you a lot of interesting information
and he lives just a couple of minutes from your hotel,
After you drop your bags, we'll go see him, Seem to you?
Yes cool, Come on,
Vinícius always went to Punta del Este,
Then to Mar del Plata and then to Buenos Aires,
During the summer, She lived in an aparthotel,
One day I went to his apartment and
overheard a conversation with a young woman,
who was Tenório's girlfriend,
And she walked in there and said, "Tenorio hasn't come back yet,"
She told us that she was not feeling well
and that Tenório went to the pharmacy to buy
medicine, disappeared and did not return,
Then Ferreira Gullar told us something incredible,
When I arrived in Buenos Aires, one of my sons
had a psychological problem and disappeared,,,
He left home and disappeared,
I was in a state of desperation and I
spoke with an Argentine acquaintance,,,
A friend of Ferreira told him that
she knew a psychic named Haydée,
And then he said this to me: "Mr, Gullar,
I know you don't believe in these things,
But if you want, I can give her her phone
number to see if she can find her son,"
I said, "Okay, give me the phone,
" I called her: "I'm so-and-so, a friend of Beltrana,
"I'm calling you because my son has disappeared,"
When I told him the name, his tone of voice
changed, a strange voice came out and he said,,,
Ferreira thought her son was dead, but
she assured him that was not the case,
I told her: "But Mrs, Haydée, I am an exile, I can't call
the embassy without them ending up putting me in jail,
If I go to the embassy,,,"
Ferreira's son had spent two days
on the street until someone saw him,
Since he only spoke Portuguese,
they took him to the Brazilian embassy,
They prepared a place for him to sleep,
waiting for someone to come and identify him,
Just as the psychic had said,
the boy was "underground,"
So I told this story to Vinícius,
I told him: "Vinícius, if you want, I can
call Mrs, Haydée to locate Tenório Júnior,"
I grabbed my agenda and called Mrs,
Haydée, "Mrs, Haydée, I'm Ferreira, the Brazilian,"
I said, "I have another problem,
It's this: a Brazilian pianist has disappeared,"
Tenório Junior,
Because you had to say the
name to be able to locate the person,
It is a mind-to-mind contact,
I said the name: "Tenorio Júnior,"
When I said the name, the voice changed again,
Oh really?
At that moment I was scared that he
knew that the girl was there next to me,
So I told him: "Mrs, Haydée, what about Tenório?"
I didn't wait until the third day,
and on the second day I called Mrs, Haydée,
When I called and she heard my voice,
Before I could say anything, he shouted in a
terrible voice: "Mr, Ferreira, they have murdered you!
They have massacred him," he told me,
I returned to Vinícius' house to tell him the news,
When I told him what Mrs, Haydée had told me on the phone,
She remained motionless on the couch
and then tears began to fall from her eyes,
And he began to say: "My friend, my friend,,,"
Vinícius was restless, worried, and I suggested: "Buy
this girl a ticket and send her back to Rio de Janeiro,"
She was very scared,
He had gone there on a pleasure trip and
suddenly found himself in a horrible mess,
All these difficulties in finding Tenório, in
my memory, are mixed with the military coup,
I think that's why nothing was ever known,
because the Argentine dictatorship was not interested
that they accused her of having murdered a
musician, a pianist, and in the most brutal way,
And they never returned the body,
they tried to cover everything up,
That night I went to Susana de
Moraes' house to meet Malena,
During dinner,
I asked him why he had changed
his mind and decided to talk to me,
He answered: "Because Tenório was an
artist and he didn't deserve to be forgotten,"
We were starting a love story
when everything happened,
Nobody knew I was going there,
I couldn't say that I was going with a married man to Punta del Este,
So we decided to run away,
Vinícius had invited him,
Vinícius was doing a summer tour that he always did,
There in Punta del Este it was great,
but he had his mind in the clouds,
due to his personal situation,
He had to go back and resolve a situation that
perhaps, unconsciously, he did not want to resolve,
Who are these?
This is him with Azeitona,
And Mutinho, who was the drummer,
They were the ones who played with him on the Vinícius tour,
Azeitona died, but Mutinho lives in São Paulo, like Toquinho,
OK,
When I arrived in Buenos Aires,
there was a climate of dread in the
air; a place completely besieged,
An emergency situation, like a war,
There were barricades, machine guns all the time,,,
Wherever you went, it was like that,
You couldn't take two steps without having a machine gun on you,
But he liked to play in Buenos Aires,
He knew a lot of people,
I knew Piazzola,
We went to dinner with Piazzola one night at a restaurant,
but Tenório was not well,
Because for him, someone who had, I think, five children, a wife,,,
I had a tremendous mess in my head,
We returned from the theater and Vinícius had
prepared a dinner to celebrate the end of the
tour in a restaurant he always went to, because
in the morning we were returning to Brazil,
And he told me: "I don't feel like going at all,
" So I said, "Okay, let's not go,
Also, my head hurts a little, Go get something next door,"
There was a place that sold sandwiches,
"Bring something and we'll stay here,"
There, everything is fine, I was waiting for it,
And an hour, two hours passed,,,
and nothing,
Tenório had gone to the corner and did not return,
Then I started to feel bad, to break out in a cold sweat,
I did not sleep all night,,,
The next day, we started looking for him,
And then Vinícius told me: "You're going to take the plane,"
"I am not leaving, "I'm going to stay, he's going to show up,"
And I stayed there for about three days,
Afterwards, Vinícius put me on a plane,
"You leave and I stay here, trying to find him,
" I went to live in Petrópolis,
My mother had a country house and I stayed there,
I spent eight years there,
I was in shock for a long time,
I couldn't speak,
I didn't speak for many months,
And then, little by little, I began to get my life back,
And I started doing botanical
illustrations, then working with plants,
And nowadays, I'm a botanical illustrator, people
even know me for my illustrations and everything,
Everything happened very quickly,
It was a short time, four months or so,
It was more of a dream that did not come true,
But I loved watching him play,
He sat down at the piano and the world stopped,
When she played it was like some kind of enchantment,
His music enveloped everything,
Tenório was special,,,
special,
Then I asked Malena if anyone who was
investigating Tenório's death, a police officer
or a journalist, had ever spoken to her,
Never, Nobody in 30 years,
Hello, do you have something to write down something?
Yes, in the hand,
3, 4, 9,,,
- 3, 4, 9,,, - 3, 1, 5,,,
- 9, 6, 6 again, 9,,,
- 6, 6, 9,,, - It's the public telephone
from the town where Carmen lives,
- OK, - And here's the big news:
João Gilberto has agreed to talk to you tomorrow,
Thirty minutes, but without recording anything,
Now you owe me two dinners!
At least!
Two dinners, sir,
Yeah! Two dinners!
I arrived half an hour early and was walking around,
so as not to arrive too early or, of
course, late for my appointment with João
Gilberto, the man who Miles Davis said
sounded good even when reading a newspaper,
I was 17 years old when I first heard João Gilberto
playing Chega de saudade in that special way,
I thought I had finally understood modernity and
the essence of the history of Brazilian popular music,
It made me read literature in a different way, watch
movies in a different way, feel life in a different way,,,
I mean, it changed everything,
I remembered that Tenório planned to record
with Caetano when he returned from Buenos Aires,
I always felt great respect for Tenório,
for his musical ability, the privileged
ear for music that he undoubtedly had,
This made me have great respect for him,
I remember a train trip I took with Tenório from São Paulo to Rio,
We spent the whole night talking in the carriage, without sleeping,
I was playing Ela é Carioca and I
had some doubts about the harmony,
He taught me, he explained to me, he
told me the chords, and I was surprised
by that direct contact with music,
After Chico, Gil and Caetano,
only Milton Nascimento remained
to complete the four giants of
MPB, Brazilian popular music,
Just when I expected Milton to tell me
where he was when he first heard Chega de
Saudade, he told me a surprising story,
I consider myself a child of cinema,
He told me that when he saw Jules and Jim in
the cinema, he got so excited that he couldn't
sleep that night and wrote three songs that
would later appear on his first album,
I think Truffaut changed a lot of people's lives,
Before leaving, it occurred to me to ask
Milton if he had known or had any
relationship with Tenório Júnior, and at the
mere mention of his name, he became excited,
He was a great musician,
When you arrived at his house, you ended up being part of the family,
He was a family man, with a lot of children,
happy with his children
and that joy that was in the house,
His piano fascinated me,
I wouldn't know how to define Tenório,
He had style, but his sound was different,
When this record came out and arrived at my
house, I couldn't get it off my old record player,
Tenório played on some of the best albums of his time,
but only recorded one as a leader, It was in March 1964,
He was 23 years old,
A few days later, a military coup stopped
the country's modernization and launched a
dictatorship that would last more than 20 years,
Good afternoon, can I talk to Carmen?
Call Mrs, Carmen!
Mrs, Carmen, phone!
It must be around here,
Carmen led a simple life; she made and sold sweets,
I am still married today,
To be a widow, there would have to be a corpse,
Today is like the day after his
disappearance, nothing was known,
It was my mother who found out on
television that Vinícius's pianist had
disappeared and came home to tell me,
I was pregnant with my little son
when Tenório disappeared and an
aunt of Tenório, who was a psychic,
came to my house to see the child,
and told Tenório's sister: "The child is
beautiful, but the father is not going to know him,"
How did you meet?
She had seen Tenório play during the Little Club days,
I used to go there on Sunday afternoons,
She went to Beco das Garrafas and listened to Embalo a lot,
And we met on the last day of '66,
When they introduced him to me, I said: "Ah, you are the famous Tenório,"
We met there, we got married,
With the last salary I received, I left my
job to get married and bought the rings,
And we got married like that, giving
it courage, thinking that everything
would turn out well with God's help,
Then, after we got married,
work wasn't very constant either,
We went through many difficulties, many,
He was very radical, he was not an easy person,
He would meet someone and he wouldn't go, he
would stop playing mid-concert, he would leave
during the break and disappear, things like that,
He was a little crazy, but he was an
extremely polite person, a super sweet person,
The only thing Tenório knew how to do was music,
I examined a photo of Tenório in
which he looked very similar to Bill Evans,
I mentioned it to Carmen and she said
yes, he was one of her favorite musicians,
When Bill Evans was in Brazil, he did some
concerts at the Municipal and we went to see him,
Afterwards, Claudio Piolho took Bill
Evans to the Fisherman's Bar, in Barra,
And Tenório went too, he had
to go because he loved Bill
Evans, so we went there,
I remember Bill Evans sat next to Tenório and me,,,
Tenório spoke English very well,
Then, they started talking,
They talked a lot,
,,,for me, the classic, totally,
Those solos are so beautiful, and it doesn't
have to be double bass, it can be anything,
He is simply someone who expresses himself in a melodic and beautiful way,
Afterwards, Carmen began to tell me
the difficulties she had to face
after Tenório's disappearance,
I tried to put myself in their situation,
Discovering at the same time that Tenório had
disappeared and that he was not alone when it happened,,,
I thought they had never had a chance
to argue or fight or separate or reconcile,
Before I left, Tenório's children came by the house,
I clearly remember his voice, playing
the piano when there was a birthday,
That's what she said, playing the piano on birthdays,
When I think about him, that memory comes to me,
But I don't have any more memories,
I remember the atmosphere in the house more than him specifically,
The atmosphere of the house, the people,,,
I remember the instruments, those big double basses,,,
The house was always full, there were always
people, they were always playing in the living room,
I remember the exact day Roberto went
to the airport to pick him up from his trip,
It was Elisa's birthday,
That day, I remember that the house was all decorated,
For a long time, when the
doorbell rang, we hoped it was him,
From 10 to 12 years old, we continue waiting,
Afterwards, we stopped having any hope,
It's impossible now,
Elisa wrote a letter to the president,
I don't remember writing it,
What would it have been like if he hadn't
disappeared, if I had had my father alive to this day?
What would my relationship with him be like, his relationship with his granddaughters?
What would it be like to have a father?
I had a strange feeling at one point, because I was watching
his children playing nearby and I thought: "My God, they are
Tenório's grandchildren, of course, whom he never met,"
Tenório's story began to interfere with my work to
the point of making me forget the book I was writing,
Fortunately, João was in charge of reminding me,
What time is it?
It is the opportunity of your life,
Paulo Moura and João Donato, the two best musicians in Brazil, recording together,
-Yeah!
It's something you don't see every day, especially a gringo like you,
When there are no witnesses, I will give you a kiss,
Hello,
Beautiful,
During lunch, these two teachers
recalled many stories from the
golden age of bossa nova,
from when Donato and João
Gilberto, still teenagers, arrived in Rio,
Paulo Moura played on Tenório's
album, so I asked him about that,
With Tenório, I learned many things,
He was the best pianist in the city,
At that time Tenório was one of
the important bossa nova musicians,
I miss him a lot,
I wish I was alive,
It was a great loss for our music,
I'm still listening to his musical touch,
It was a very delicate touch,
I spent another week doing interviews for the book,
They cut short a golden era,
The best music in the world was being made
in Brazil and, overnight, they put an end to it,
Dictatorship and money, there was no longer a place for innovative music,
They only wanted three-minute songs,
Tenório's death was a kind of
metaphor for the death of Brazilian music,
And he was also a victim of two dictatorships: in Brazil and Argentina,
Who rose to power through military coups
backed by the government of your country,
That's how it went,
The day before I left, I went to talk to a
musician, a friend of Tenório's that Carmen had
told me about and who had been collecting many of
Tenório's compositions for a songbook for years,
Tenório, was a gentleman,
He was very shy, he spoke softly,
He appeared like a bolt of lightning in Brazilian music here in Rio,
He went to the Beco das Garrafas,
Played once and recorded,
It was phenomenal,
Even today it is still phenomenal,
If he didn't like
something, he vanished,
This is how he earned a reputation
professionally as a guy who always disappeared,
This hurt him professionally,
Suddenly, I realized that those scores
that were on the floor were by Tenório
and we were stepping on his compositions,
My God!
This,,, is it from Tenório?
Yes, they are all yours, I don't compose,
Thank you,
Hello, Jeff, I'm Jessica, How are you?
I hope the trip went great, and I
can't wait to read what you have written,
Any idea when I'll be able to do it?
Listen, by the way, if you're not too
jet-lagged, there's an amazing Cuban pianist
playing tonight at the Village Vanguard,
But if you are too tired,,, - I will be there,
,,,don't worry because I can always invite
someone much sexier and more handsome than you,"
Sexier than me? But what are you saying? - Goodbye,
Jessica was dying for me to tell her
news about our book, but at that moment
I couldn't stop talking about Tenório:
his life, his music, and his tragic end,
I couldn't stop talking about him,
I've had enough to drink,
Jeff, if you keep this up, you're going to have a
hard time finding your way back home, honey,
Don't worry,
He was already quite drunk when I arrived,
Excellent!
Fantastic!
Wait, Jessica, I'll be right back,
But where are you going?
Aren't you going to play the piano?
Hello teacher,
Thanks thanks,
Oh, incredible,
Well, sleepyhead, it's time to get up!
Here you have,
Champion's breakfast,
But how good you are, What's that?
I adore you,
Listen, if you don't remember anything from last night, don't worry,
There is nothing to remember,
You spent the whole night,,,
Mmm, how good,,,
,,,talking about a pianist who was murdered,
What was it called?
Who? Ah yes, Tenório,
Tenório, that is,
I wanted you to tell me about our book and you wouldn't stop talking about,,,
what's his name - Tenório, Tenório Junior,
Yeah, so nothing happened,
Did I try to kiss you?
Listen, it's impossible to seduce someone
who thinks they're a know-it-all Henry Kissinger,
That? - Basically, you told me that
we were to blame for all the military
coups that took place in the 60s,
When I tried to defend myself, saying that I had
nothing to do with any of that, you refused to listen to me,
So I had no choice but to lie down on the couch,
Oh I see,
Did you know?
That?
I think that's the book you should write,
That?
But I'm already halfway through the other one,
Yes, but all your thoughts and
attention are focused on that man's story,
I mean, you're possessed,
Trust me, that is the book you have to write, without a doubt,
You're going to love John,
He used to write for The Washington Post,
We published his book last year
and it is his most important work so far,
What you tell me about this pianist is not, in the least, surprising,
Hundreds of thousands of people were
murdered during those years in many countries,
As you can imagine, the vast
majority were innocent people
who had nothing to do with
politics or any subversion,
In 1954, General Stroessner staged a coup in Paraguay,
That same year there was another coup in Guatemala, where
60,000 people disappeared during the 36 years that the war lasted,
440 indigenous towns were erased from
the map and more than 200,000 people died,
In El Salvador and Nicaragua,
the war and dictatorships
left more than 150,000 dead,
Ten years later, a military coup ended democracy in Brazil,
In 1971, it was Bolivia's turn,
Two years later, in 1973, Pinochet's
coup ended the government of
Salvador Allende in Chile,
That same year, another coup ended
a long period of democracy in Uruguay,
In 1976, after the military coup in
Argentina, 30,000 people disappeared,
How many atrocities,,,
That pianist was just one of many
who died during Operation Condor,
At that time, none of this was known, Everything was confidential,
Top secret,
The governments of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile,
Bolivia and Uruguay held a summit to collaborate and
combat any element considered subversive,
They could be exiles, dissidents,
politicians, soldiers or union or student leaders,
Even the press, the clergy and children,
No one understood why someone who had fled
their country could be killed or disappear in another,
Since Latin America was a hotbed of dictators, no one investigated,
Only years later did Operation Condor come to light,
When? As?
The Curia of Sao Paulo, to help the families of
the disappeared, founded an office called Clamor,
One of the cases they found was that of a Uruguayan woman,
Her son and his wife had gone into exile in Buenos Aires,
They were arrested, tortured and murdered,
They had two small children who disappeared,
Oh,
Grandma wanted to know something about them, if there was any way to find them,
One day, They received a call from Caracas,
A woman said she had seen the children
in the photo in a plaza in Valparaíso,
At first, the story did not seem very
plausible: two Uruguayan children,
missing in Argentina, seen by a
Venezuelan woman in a Chilean square,
Still, they decided to follow the trail,
Two days later, Clamor's person
returned to school, this time with
the two children's grandmother,
God, I can't believe it,
It is awful,
Pure evil,
That was the first case that involved three
of the countries involved in Operation Condor,
Since then, there have been countless similar cases,
There are still people trying to find or at least find
out something about their parents or their children,
All this was done with the approval
of the CIA and the US government,
Already, - Don't be sad, there have also been exceptions,
-Oh really?
There was a young dreamer who, fed up with our
tendency to defend democracy only for our
country and dictatorships in the rest, went to
Cuba to fight with the revolutionary rebels,
That young man was William Morgan, he fought
in the mountains with the rebels and became
a commander and hero of the revolution,
And what happend with him?
Castro ordered him executed by firing squad
two years after the triumph of the revolution,
A week later, he was back in Rio to
continue working on the book, only
now the book was about Tenório,
I met my friend João for dinner,
He wanted to show me a historical place,
This is where it all began one afternoon in April 1956,
Jobim worked as an arranger near here, at Continental,
After getting off work, I used
to stop by here for a beer,
I was sitting at that table,
Vinícius was having a drink with a
friend who knew he was looking for a
composer for his new work and insisted
that he meet this young man named Jobim,
Vinícius told him that he had written a
version of the Greek myth of Orpheus set
in a favela in Rio and that he was looking
for someone who could write the music,
And there will be some money, right?
But how do you say that to the poet?
That, to a poet, is not told,
With the salary he earned, Jobim could
barely make ends meet, so he accepted,
A few days later, Vinícius
went to Jobim's apartment to
listen to some of the first
compositions he had written,
And thus the happiest couple
in Brazilian music was born,
Vinícius,,, I would give anything to be able to talk to him,
I have so many questions,,,
By the way, I have to tell you something about the book,
Yeah?
My relationship with Tenório Júnior began on the beach,
He was quite a character,
a very special person,
Tenório was a clean person,
He was outstanding,
If I had been born in medieval times, he would have been a saint,
He was very "white" as a jazz player,
It happened too quickly and had an ending that didn't belong,
He deserved to stay alive, with us,
The greatest jazz pianist there has been in Brazil without a doubt was Tenório,
The last time I was with Tenório
It was in my studio,
and he told me that he was going to give a
concert in Buenos Aires with Toquinho and Vinícius,
I remember talking to him about the situation in Argentina,
which was complicated, I told him: "My God, Tenório,
You need to be careful",
He was wearing black pants, a black shirt, a huge black beard,
and he told me: "No, nothing's wrong, we're with Vinícius,
we're going to do a concert," He wasn't worried at all,
After Tenório disappeared, someone
from Argentina called me and said:
"Roberto, I come from Buenos Aires,
I was detained there and we met,
He was there," And I said, "Why did they stop you?"
He told me: "I don't know, they grabbed me in the middle of the street and
interrogated me several times, I don't know, I don't know what I'm doing here,"
Tenório interpreted everything very well,
And it caught my attention because of the
assertive approach it gave to Brazilian music,
using the type of sound that Bill Evans used,
He was an excellent pianist,
Tenório's hand playing the piano was something
precious, his hand always in the right place,
He played very well,
I miss,
Look, can I confess something to you?
He is missing, I miss him,
Is here,
The ones I really needed to talk to were two
survivors of the group that went to Uruguay
and Argentina, Toquinho and Mutinho, but
they were on tour outside of Brazil,
Tenório's last concert before returning was in Buenos
Aires, so instead of waiting for them to return, I decided
to meet them at the place where the events occurred,
I took advantage of my stay in Buenos
Aires to meet friends from Vinícius and Tenório,
In Buenos Aires, I interviewed
Vinícius' penultimate wife, Marta,
I was a few blocks from the places
Tenório had been the night he disappeared,
The police station was a few minutes from the
hotel, and that is where Tenório had spent
the first two nights of his interrogation and
torture, before he was transferred to ESMA,
the Higher School of Mechanics of the Navy,
Thanks to the help of the Human Rights
Secretariat of the Argentine Nation, I
was able to visit the infamous ESMA,
This was where Tenório spent the last days of his life,
It was in operation throughout the entire
period of the dictatorship, from 1976 to 1983,
Oh, fuck,
Oh my god,,,
My God,,,
That's horrible,
Yeah! Bravo!
Tenório was a great accompanist and an excellent soloist,
He was very critical, with a great sense of humor,
We came from a paradise: Punta del Este,
We stayed there for a month,
During that month, he was safe, away from Brazil,
He was going through a personal crisis,
The vacation was over, he had to return to his reality, but
that crisis did not surface for a single day in Punta del Este,
The atmosphere was very tense in
Buenos Aires, there were tanks in the streets,
It was like a bomb that would explode at any
moment, but we had no idea before we went there,
The police came in and searched the rooms,
It happened to us twice at the hotel we were staying at,
Tenório was wonderful, he was a wonderful person,
Chevalier, very intelligent, but also very childish,
It had something very very pure,
it was very funny,
We laughed a lot, and when
we played it was wonderful,
He brought another person, Malena, with him,
We knew that Carmen existed,
He had to be happy with both of them,
He played well, he was happy, he was not sad,
I met up with a friend I met in Punta
del Este and we ate and drank wine,
Then, on the way back, I got a little scared,
I saw that there was a lot of commotion in the
street and I was afraid of the police, like everyone else,
I finally got to the hotel and it was a tremendous relief,
At 3 or 3:30 in the morning,
Malena calls me: "Haven't
you seen Tenório?"
I say, "No, no,
" Then he told me: "She left and hasn't come back,
"He went to buy me a sandwich and he hasn't come back yet,
" Then, at 4:30, Azeitona arrived,
At around 6am, everyone was in
the lobby of the Normandie Hotel,
We were all worried, scared,
A friend of mine, Malena and I
took a car and went to the morgue,
to the hospital and everywhere,
We asked, but found nothing,
We returned very hopeless,
very, and we returned to Brazil,
For a long time afterwards, I was dreaming about Tenório,
When you see a person,
to a relative, to a friend who
dies, you say goodbye to him,
Now, when it disappears, you no longer forget it,
You don't forget it anymore,
Yeah, of course,
I started writing a melody, a song,
It is a beautiful song, but I wrote the melody with,,,
Mutinho, I found the lyrics,
I looked it up on the Internet,
Mutinho wrote the melody and I wrote the lyrics,
Pedro continued on his
way, Chico asked to stay,
Tenório went out alone at night, he
disappeared, no one could explain it,
other friends are gone,
Maintain your ideals
between truth and delirium,
some sowed nostalgia in exile,
others will never return,
We have found the letter,
How pretty, This song is beautiful,
I miss this song,
Asking here and there, I managed to
locate two of Tenório's friends who
had met him the night of the concert,
But when they arrived, Tenório had already left and would not return,
"The show revealed a surprise for many
viewers, the brilliant performance of Tenório Júnior,
"The pianist played an exceptional piece that denoted
the most authentic expression of modern Brazilian music,"
Tenório never read this review,
Back in Rio, I looked for relatives of Tenório
who could tell me about his childhood and youth,
We had a neighbor who played in the Brazilian
Symphony Orchestra and was his teacher,
He had that musical gift since he was little,
He respected his father a lot, but I
think he was very close to his mother,
When it all happened, she was devastated,
She had a stroke and became ill,
He didn't stop looking for him, even
through Interpol, but nothing, nothing, nothing,
Until an Argentinian gave an interview to Senhor magazine,
He stayed with him and told him
that Tenório was murdered inside
the cell with a shot to the head,
And in the end, it seemed that they had made
a pact: she died one day and two days later, he,
I often went out with him,
When he played somewhere, like
at Beco das Garrafas in Copacabana,
He was a person completely disconnected from
everyday life, very disconnected from material things,
He let himself be carried away by his music,
He said: "I know how to play the piano, I don't know how to make money,"
He had a way of being very Zen,
very Buddhist, without being one,
A person committed to good things,
to things of nature, with a very
simple, almost Franciscan life,
He did not participate in politics,
He used to say: "What I like is playing the piano, not doing politics,"
Tenório and his cousin, Luiz Roberto, they were very united,
They studied medicine together until Tenório
decided to leave it and dedicate himself to music,
His father, in a loving way, despite being
upset that he was leaving his medical
career, because he was proud that he was
going to be a doctor, gave him a piano,
Carmen was the strong person of the couple,
They went through great financial difficulties,
but they always overcame them with good humor,
Then, since they were without money, he told me: "I
would like you to assist Carmen with her pregnancy,"
And in the case of the last two children,
it was I who brought them into the world,
For me it was very sad, because
her last birth that I attended
was after he disappeared,
One day I was here at home when they called me
saying that there was an Argentine corporal,
Vallejos, in the editorial office of Isto é/Senhor,
Mauricio Díaz asked me to go there,
When he was informing us of everything,
the Brazilian police arrived, They had surrounded the building,
They said: "Don't worry, nothing is going to
happen to you, but we will take the Argentine,
Because he's talking too much,"
My brother didn't have furniture in the
house, so he made cardboard furniture,
Once he wrote to me saying that he had renovated the furniture,
that he had painted it black to change the atmosphere a little,
He really liked yoga,
He was very fond of Hindu philosophy,
He really liked meditation,
He played for himself, he played very well,
Whether there were people listening to him or not, he played,
There was a piano here and a drum set by the door to my room,
I slept with the sound of the drums, to
the point that I can sleep with any noise,
I found out about the case on television,
On the Sunday program Fantastic they
broke the news that he had disappeared,
I was very worried about my parents,
My father didn't go right away because my
mother had a stroke and was hospitalized,
So my father waited for her to get better,
He went to Interpol, to the police, but they didn't know anything,
The year he died, they called my father from
TV Manchete and told him that there was an
Argentine, Vallejos, who wanted to talk,
I always went with my father to these interviews,
but this time he decided not to tell me and went alone,
My mother fell in the house
and they hospitalized her, and my
father didn't want to stay there without her,
Then he started to have a series of things,
He died on Thursday and she on Saturday,
When I checked the dates, I discovered that
Tenório's parents had died right on the
tenth anniversary of their son's murder,
I worked for an organization, an entity called Clamor,
That was where the first information came
about a Brazilian, Vinícius de Moraes'
pianist, who had been kidnapped in Argentina,
So I went to Argentina to put a paid advertisement in
the newspaper La Nación and then I went to the hotel bar,
The corner was full of windows,
There was a restaurant, a cafe and a newsstand next door,
I showed a photo of him to the man,
who remembered, "That's the Brazilian!"
And then he told me that they took him away in a Ford Falcon,
In Argentina, kidnappings usually took place in Ford Falcons,
It was confirmation that he had been kidnapped,
Do you think he was kidnapped by mistake?
It is possible that he was mistaken for someone else,
but he was detained by the Argentine political police,
Then it was a political kidnapping,
Ten years later, a guy named Vallejos
explained that, in reality, Tenório
was arrested and murdered at the Navy
Mechanics School by Captain Astiz,
"the angel of Death",
Greenhalgh told me that a young Brazilian filmmaker
had recorded an interview with Vallejos years ago
while making a short documentary about Tenório,
The process of obtaining testimonies
from both the father and Carmen it took me a long time,
I had to earn their trust in order to make the film,
The first contact was difficult because he didn't want to talk,
At that time, his wife was sick,
And he was very attentive to her,
He seemed like a very strong person,
but this whole story left him devastated,
He was a man who had served the State,
but when he needed the State to help him
locate his son, the State did not help him,
Rolling,
We did not have money,
It took, I think, something like three months
to get him to agree to record the interview,
Ten years later, I decided to do a screening
at the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de
Janeiro, to remember Tenório's disappearance,
They told me that there was a person, a foreigner, who was looking for me,
That person was Vallejos,
At that moment a very curious process began,
He would hang up the phone saying, "I'll call you in half an hour,"
And I changed phones,
Rogério told Vallejos that he was interested in
recording an interview and Vallejos accepted,
But at the last moment, Vallejos showed up asking for money,
He wanted $2,000 for the interview,
So I told him: "I've gone into
debt, I spent money I didn't have,
"I would never pay to interview you, you
have to do the interview no matter what,"
I kept in touch with Vallejo and Mauricio Díaz,
from Senhor magazine, called me a day or two later,
He had decided to do a report and
published a ten-page story plus the cover,
How he died?
Who shot?
While he was in the cell?
Did you witness it?
Hello!
All this time, there was someone I
would have given anything to talk to,
and, although he had been dead for 30 years, It was as if he still had something to say,
I haven't seen it yet, but it seems that
the interview took place in Vinícius's
apartment on the morning of the coup,
- OK, - That's why it was never broadcast,
- OK, - It is in 16 millimeters
and only one copy exists, - Brilliant,
Well, we are all very concerned because
it is a very mysterious disappearance,
We left the theater and then I guess, as he
usually did, he went out to eat something,
a sandwich, and he didn't come back,
Tomorrow night it will be one week,
Nothing at all, He was totally apolitical,
He was a musician, he only cared about the music,
He led a life as a musician,
For me it is a very painful moment, not
only because he was my friend, but also
because he was an extraordinary musician,
a human being of the best quality,
an incredibly sweet man, with great
serenity, incapable of harming anyone,
And for all those reasons,
his mysterious disappearance
It leaves us in a state of great anguish,
We are all attentive to any phone call,
I have practically not left the house for this reason,
All that remained of Tenório were fragments
scattered in the memories of a handful of people,
I'll never know if he went out for a
sandwich, medicine or cigarettes,
when he disappeared,
But when people talked about
him, there were certain things
that were repeated over and
over: he was funny, smart,
pure, shy, ironic,
Among Tenório's papers, I found a score
dedicated to his favorite Brazilian pianist,
It's called Viva Donato,
I think it's you,
There is only one Donato,
After so many atrocities,
I had almost forgotten that Tenório
was, above all, a fabulous pianist,
But also a friend,
but whom I will never meet and with whom I
will never be able to talk about music over a beer,
No one can do it justice,
I hope this book saves
it, at least momentarily,
from oblivion,
Thank you,