Elis Regina and Antônio Carlos Jobim recording "Águas de Março" at MGM Studios in Los Angeles, 1974.
One of the most beautiful and iconic duets ever committed to tape, from one of the most legendary collaborations in Brasilian music.
"I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public want you to play. Play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing, even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years".
- Thelonious Monk...
Happy birthday to Thelonious Monk, born on this day in 1917!
A jazz genius whose love for music, sparked in Harlem’s vibrant stride piano scene, revolutionized the genre with his quirky, angular style.
His innovative compositions like “’Round Midnight” and albums like Brilliant Corners (1957) blended dissonance and swing, influencing Miles Davis and shaping bebop’s bold future…