Johnny Alf

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Rapaz de Bem 04:19 Tools
O grande amor 11:06 Tools
E Ai? 02:49 Tools
Little Boat (O Barquinho) 02:52 Tools
Eu e a Brisa 04:52 Tools
Um Tema P'ro Simon 03:09 Tools
Ilusão à Toa 03:45 Tools
Sidarta 02:17 Tools
Dizem Por Ai 02:48 Tools
O Que é Amar 04:29 Tools
Despedida De Mangueira 03:07 Tools
Céu E Mar 03:10 Tools
Fim De Semana Em Eldorado 02:27 Tools
Um Tem P'ro Simon 00:00 Tools
O Barquinho 02:51 Tools
Seu Chopin, Desculpe 02:05 Tools
Saudações 03:06 Tools
Tema Sem Palavras 02:13 Tools
Disa 02:34 Tools
Garota da minha cidade 02:05 Tools
Escuta 03:11 Tools
Diagonal 02:10 Tools
Fuga 02:16 Tools
Eu e o Crepúsculo 03:15 Tools
O Que E Amar 03:23 Tools
Moça Flor 02:17 Tools
Podem Falar 01:46 Tools
Nós 03:14 Tools
Seu Chopin, Desculpe (Choro Do Minuto) 02:28 Tools
Triste 02:45 Tools
Tudo Distante De Mim 03:22 Tools
Vejo a Tarde Cair 02:46 Tools
Desejo do Mar 02:46 Tools
Vem 03:08 Tools
Que Vou Dizer eu? 02:46 Tools
Canto para Pai Corvo 01:46 Tools
Céu Alegre 02:03 Tools
Canção pra Disfarçar 04:02 Tools
Um Gosto de Fim 04:02 Tools
Desbunde Total 02:49 Tools
Imenso do Amor 04:02 Tools
Triste Noturno 01:50 Tools
Samba Sem Balanço 00:00 Tools
Gismi 02:47 Tools
Feitiçaria 02:38 Tools
Samba Dobrado 03:45 Tools
Se Eu Te Disser 04:03 Tools
Ela Desatinou 04:25 Tools
Ilusao a Toa 02:19 Tools
Coisas do Carnaval 02:31 Tools
Bossa Só 02:15 Tools
Eu Quis Fugir de Teus Olhos 03:03 Tools
Olhaí 03:02 Tools
Penso Em Você 03:04 Tools
O Céu É Você 00:00 Tools
Quase Tudo Igual 03:03 Tools
A Rosa 05:30 Tools
Rapaz De Bem (Original Mix) 02:34 Tools
Um Tema P'ro Simon - 1994 Remastered Version 02:46 Tools
Anabela 02:45 Tools
Beija-Me Mais 02:53 Tools
Oxum 02:46 Tools
Eu Só Sei 00:00 Tools
LEME 02:14 Tools
Olha Aí 02:46 Tools
Tudo Que É Preciso 03:55 Tools
Outros Povos 03:55 Tools
Rapaz de Bem (Remastered) 01:45 Tools
Termos De Canção 02:06 Tools
Que Volte a Tristeza 02:56 Tools
Bondinho do Pão-de-açúcar 03:04 Tools
AMA-ME 04:10 Tools
Um Tema P'ro Simon [Instrumental] 03:09 Tools
Um Tema Pro Simon 00:00 Tools
ILUSAO ATOA 02:21 Tools
Sonhos E Fantasias 00:00 Tools
Bondinho do Pao de Acucar 03:04 Tools
Luz Eterna 04:50 Tools
Músico Simples 02:29 Tools
Não Me Diga Adeus 02:35 Tools
Não Deixe a Zorra Morrer 02:35 Tools
Tudo Que e Preciso 03:04 Tools
O Ceu e Voce 01:45 Tools
Kaô, Xangô 02:18 Tools
Beija - Me Mais 02:38 Tools
Bondinho Do Pão De Açúcar 03:03 Tools
Um Tema P'ro Simon - 1994 Digital Remaster; 03:10 Tools
E Um Cravo E Tem Espinho 02:48 Tools
Bar Da Praia 02:42 Tools
Olhos Negros 03:47 Tools
O Barquinho (Little Boat) 02:48 Tools
Choro Do Minuto (Seu Chopin Desculpe) 02:02 Tools
Dois Corações 04:00 Tools
04 - Orgulho de bom sambista 03:47 Tools
Termos de Cancao 02:07 Tools
Samba Sem Balanco 03:04 Tools
Garôta da Minha Cidade 02:06 Tools
Nossa Festa 00:00 Tools
Passe Livre 01:50 Tools
Saudações (1994 - Remaster) 03:06 Tools
Plenilunio 00:00 Tools
Quem Diz Que Sabe 03:04 Tools
Pensando em Você 03:58 Tools
Despedida de Mangueira / Eu e a Brisa (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Paz De Um Grande Amor 02:20 Tools
Tem Mais 02:18 Tools
Decisão 03:11 Tools
Com Voz De Plenitude 02:53 Tools
É um Cravo e Tem Espinho 02:46 Tools
DECISAO 03:11 Tools
Palpite Infeliz 03:29 Tools
Céu e você 01:45 Tools
PENSANDO EM VOCE 04:00 Tools
Têrmos de Canção 02:07 Tools
Bossa So 03:10 Tools
Musico Simples 02:29 Tools
Castigo 00:00 Tools
Anunciacao 03:59 Tools
Canto Pra Pai Corvo 00:00 Tools
Pisou Na Bola 03:10 Tools
Saudações - 1994 - Remaster 03:06 Tools
Gente 01:52 Tools
Acorda, Ulysses 03:26 Tools
Eu Pretendo Nao Chorar 02:12 Tools
Plenilúnio 03:29 Tools
Kaô Xangô 02:48 Tools
Se Queres Saber 03:29 Tools
Um Tema P'ro Simon (1994 Digital Remaster) 03:10 Tools
Dois coracoes 04:55 Tools
Convite 03:15 Tools
Para Não Falar de Amor 02:17 Tools
Acorda Ulysses 03:59 Tools
Fly me to the moon 03:19 Tools
Nós (1994 - Remaster) 04:10 Tools
Eu E A Brisa - 1998 Digital Remaster 04:11 Tools
Eu So Sei 02:33 Tools
Noite sem lua 03:35 Tools
Eu Pretendo Não Chorar 02:11 Tools
愛するということ 04:13 Tools
Eh, Mundo bom Tai 03:19 Tools
Over the Rainbow 03:36 Tools
Desejo do Mar (Paulo Sergio Va 02:37 Tools
Quero amanhecer 02:13 Tools
Tema da cidade longe 03:46 Tools
Um Tema P' Ro Simon 00:00 Tools
Homenagem: "Noel, Rosa Do Samba" 00:00 Tools
Choratina 02:32 Tools
Acorda Ulisses 03:29 Tools
Bondinho do Pao-de-Acucar 05:03 Tools
Desafinado 05:03 Tools
Corcovado 03:19 Tools
A Noite Do Meu Bem 04:11 Tools
Ai Saudade 03:24 Tools
A foggy day 01:53 Tools
Olhai 03:18 Tools
Nem Eu 02:02 Tools
Sandalia De Prata (Bonus) 03:18 Tools
Beija 03:29 Tools
Noel Rosa do Samba 03:29 Tools
Eh! Mundo Bom Taí 03:22 Tools
Mais um som 03:18 Tools
EH! MUNDO BOM TAI 03:36 Tools
Sintonia 03:36 Tools
Éu e a Brisa 03:18 Tools
Arpoador 03:44 Tools
Um Tema para Simon 03:44 Tools
Saudações - 1994 Remaster 03:44 Tools
Seu Chopin Desculpe 03:19 Tools
Ilusão Atôa 02:46 Tools
Idriss 03:19 Tools
O Céu e Você 03:59 Tools
Anunciação 03:59 Tools
O Morro Não Tem Vez 03:19 Tools
Quase Todo Igual 03:41 Tools
Oxum (Ao Vivo) 02:46 Tools
Sandalia De Prata 02:46 Tools
"Seu" Chopin, Desculpe 02:04 Tools
Kao Xango 03:41 Tools
Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Voce 04:12 Tools
Ilusao à Toa 01:45 Tools
Nós - 1994 - Remaster 04:12 Tools
Sandália De Prata 03:00 Tools
TEMA CARNAVAL 03:00 Tools
E ai 03:41 Tools
Orgulho de bom sambista 03:41 Tools
Plexus / Rapaz de Bem (Ao Vivo) 04:11 Tools
Velho Realejo 00:00 Tools
E Aí? 04:11 Tools
Bondinho do Pão de Açucar (Arm 03:04 Tools
Noel, Rosa do Samba (Homenage 04:11 Tools
Músico Simples - 1994 Digital Remaster; 02:30 Tools
Garota da minha idade 04:11 Tools
Tempo a Bessa 03:00 Tools
Deep heart 04:11 Tools
Um Tema P'ro Simon - 1994 Remaster 04:11 Tools
Não Deixa A Zôrra Morrer 02:35 Tools
Plexus/Rapaz de Bem 04:11 Tools
Moca-Flor 02:17 Tools
Beija-Me Mais [Original Mix] 04:11 Tools
Ceu e Voce 03:04 Tools
Para Nao Falar de Amor 02:17 Tools
Slightly out of Tune 02:07 Tools
Um Temoa P'Roo Simon 03:04 Tools
Eh Mundo Bom Taí 03:22 Tools
Ceu de estrelas 03:52 Tools
Ilusão à Toa - Ao Vivo 03:52 Tools
Operacao esquecimento 03:23 Tools
Johnny Alf: Triste 03:22 Tools
Foi tempo de verao 03:26 Tools
Gesto final 10:24 Tools
Disa (Maurício - Johnny Alf) 02:36 Tools
O céu é você (Maria Helena Tol 01:45 Tools
Canto Pra Pai Carvo 04:31 Tools
Olha Aн 02:46 Tools
Redenção 02:46 Tools
Foi à noite 01:45 Tools
Rapaz De Bem - Live 01:45 Tools
Dizem Por Ai [Original Mix] 01:45 Tools
Foi a noite 01:45 Tools
Ensaio para ilusao 03:22 Tools
Samba do Retorno 04:31 Tools
Eh, Mundo Bom Taí 03:19 Tools
O Que E Amar (2001 Digital Remaster) 04:31 Tools
03 - Um gosto de fim 01:45 Tools
Eu Só Se 02:44 Tools
Vejo a tarde cair (Tita - Edwi 02:29 Tools
06 - Nós 03:37 Tools
Canto Prá Pai Corvo 02:25 Tools
Eh Mundo Bom Tai 02:29 Tools
02 - O que é amar 04:31 Tools
Beija Me Mais 01:46 Tools
Plexus 03:06 Tools
E Aí 04:31 Tools
Ceu Alegre 01:49 Tools
05 - Músico simples 03:19 Tools
Diagonal (Maurício Einhorn - D 02:12 Tools
Outros Povos (1994 Digital Remaster) 03:37 Tools
Plenilunio (1994 Digital Remaster) 03:37 Tools
Um Tema P'ro Simon (1994 Remastered Version) 01:46 Tools
O Grande Amor/Valsa de Eurídice/Medo de Amar 03:06 Tools
Termos de Canção (V. Freire - 02:07 Tools
One Note Samba (Samba de uma Nota Só) 03:06 Tools
Beija-Me Mais - Original Mix 03:06 Tools
Ilusão á Toa 03:06 Tools
Céu De Estrelas 00:00 Tools
04 - Acorda, Ulysses 00:00 Tools
Rapaz De Bem (2001 Digital Remaster) 03:30 Tools
Saudações (1994 Remaster) 03:30 Tools
Johnny Alf - Eu E A Brisa 05:29 Tools
Esquece/Alguem Como Tu/Copacabana/Wave 10:24 Tools
Plenilunio - 1994 Remaster 10:24 Tools
O Que É Amar (Sandra de Sá) 01:46 Tools
Triste Noturno (Zé Maria - Joh 01:49 Tools
Um Tema P´ro Simon 01:49 Tools
Podem Falar (Johnny Alf) 01:49 Tools
Fights, Never More (Brigas Nunca Mais) 02:07 Tools
10 - Um tema pro Simon 02:07 Tools
Um Temoa P'Roo Simon - Johnny Alf 02:07 Tools
Acorda Ulysses (1994 Digital Remaster) 03:30 Tools
Umbanda 05:29 Tools
Músico Simples - 1994 Remaster 05:29 Tools
Tudo Que E Precisso 05:29 Tools
Oxum - Ao Vivo 05:29 Tools
Orgulho de Ser Bom Sambista 02:22 Tools
Seu Chopin, Desculpe - Chico Buarque 02:29 Tools
Essência 02:43 Tools
Outros Povos - 1994 Remaster 02:43 Tools
Com Que Roupa 10:24 Tools
Foi Tempo de Verão 03:26 Tools
Moça- Flor (Luiz Fernando Frei 02:26 Tools
Tristeza de Nós Dois/Eu e a Brisa 01:49 Tools
Rapaz De Bem - Emilio Santiago 03:00 Tools
O Céu Você 01:49 Tools
07 - Outros povos 01:49 Tools
Cancao Pra Disfarcar 02:56 Tools
Quiet Nights (Corcovado) 01:49 Tools
Despedida Da Mangueira 01:49 Tools
09 - Anunciação 03:00 Tools
Melodia Sentimental/Bachiana No. 5 [Cantilena] 07:40 Tools
É Um Cravo E Tem Espinho (1994 Digital Remaster) 02:07 Tools
08 - Plenilúnio 07:40 Tools
Noel, rosa do samba 05:29 Tools
Seu Chopin,Desculpe 01:46 Tools
O Bouquinho 03:00 Tools
O Grande Amor / Valsa de Eurídice/ Medo de Amar (Ao Vivo) 03:46 Tools
Falseta 02:26 Tools
Valsa de Eurídice - Ao Vivo 02:26 Tools
Céu e Mar (Johnny Alf) 01:46 Tools
Acorda Ulysses - 1994 Remaster 01:46 Tools
Nossa Festa - Leny Andrade 02:56 Tools
Slightly Out Of Tune (Desafinado) 02:26 Tools
É Um Cravo E Tem Espinho - 1994 Digital Remaster; 01:46 Tools
Olhos Negros - Caetano Veloso 03:46 Tools
É Um Cravo E Tem Espinho - 1994 Remaster 03:46 Tools
Operação Esquecimento 00:00 Tools
Quando o samba acabou 02:43 Tools
Ilusão  Toa 02:56 Tools
Acorda Ulysses - 1994 Digital Remaster; 04:02 Tools
09 - É um cravo e tem espinho 04:02 Tools
E Ai? (Ao Vivo) 03:46 Tools
Falseta - Instrumental 03:46 Tools
07 - Desbunde total 03:46 Tools
We And The Sea (Nós e o Mar) 03:46 Tools
06 - Eu pretendo não chorar 03:46 Tools
O Que É Amar (2001 Digital Remaster) 03:02 Tools
05 - Que volte a tristeza 03:46 Tools
Céu é Você 03:46 Tools
Dois Cracoes 03:46 Tools
Eu E A Brisa (Bonus) 03:46 Tools
Umbanda (Trecho De Umbanda) 01:46 Tools
Little Boat (O Barqulnho) 01:46 Tools
O Grande Amor / Valsa de Eurídice / Medo de Amar - Ao Vivo 01:46 Tools
one note samba 01:46 Tools
Plexus / Rapaz de Bem - Ao Vivo 01:46 Tools
Sky And Sea (Céu e Mar) 01:46 Tools
joão ninguém 02:26 Tools
Johnny Alf e Gal - Ilusão a t 01:46 Tools
10 - Para não falar de amor 01:46 Tools
Um Tempo P'ro Simon 01:46 Tools
A Pair Of Legs (Pernas) 01:46 Tools
De Cigarro em Cigarro 01:46 Tools
Esquece - Alguém como tu - Copacabana - Wave 01:46 Tools
Trust 'N Faith (Gostar de Alguém) 01:46 Tools
Dois Coracoes - Roberto Menescal 04:02 Tools
08 - Com voz de plenitude 03:02 Tools
Olhaí! 03:02 Tools
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Johnny Alf (born Alfredo José da Silva 5/19/1929 in Rio de Janeiro - 2010) is a true genius, unfortunately he is also highly underestimated. He introduced Brazil to a new way of singing, playing, and composing several years before the term "bossa nova" was coined. Tom Jobim, Leny Andrade, Luís Eça, Carlos Lyra, and all those who came after had some Alf influences. Always rejecting the label bossa nova, Alf focused on his artistic achievements and let go of the music press, which continued ignoring him. His importance in Brazilian popular music as a fundamental precursor is still to be properly regarded, while he has been frequently recorded by international musicians such as Lalo Schifrin ("Rapaz de Bem"). In Brazil, his playing is registered on 46 albums, singles, compilations, and participations, but he has recorded only nine solo LPs or CDs in his career. His father, an Army sub-official, died in 1932. His mother had to work as a washerwoman in a family home where Johnny was accepted and raised as a son, together with Luís Paulo Ribeiro, the family's own son. Alf began his piano studies at nine with a family friend, Geni Borges. Soon, he demonstrated interest for North American composers, such as George Gershwin and Cole Porter, and for unnoticed Brazilian revolutionaries such as Garoto, Custódio Mesquita, Lúcio Alves, and Gilberto Milfont, together with the famous Dick Farney. At 14, he formed a group with friends in Vial Isabel, playing on weekends in Andaraí. Studying at the Pedro II school, he was invited by his colleagues to join the cultural meetings promoted by the Brasil-U.S. Institute Ibeu. They met weekly to listen and discuss jazz music and to see jazz movies, concerts, etc. At that time, Alf was working as an accountant assistant and was already writing music. At 18, he enlisted; a little after, in 1949, Dick Farney returned from his season in the U.S. As one of the first (and certainly the most successful) singer to incorporate jazz influences in his personal expression, Farney already had a great number of fans, people who were avid in new music directions. The jazz meetings, welcoming Farney, adopted the name of Sinatra-Farney Fan Club, revering another already influential name in those times. Amongst the frequenters, there were several names that would later be famous in music, such as Tom Jobim, Nora Ney, and Luís Bonfá, among others. He'd been a longtime a die-hard jazz fan, jazz journalist José Domingos Raffaelli was also a longtime friend of Luís Paulo Ribeiro's, whose home he, together with other friends, frequented regularly on Saturdays to listen and discuss music. Those encounters began in 1949 and in 1950, they created another jazz fan club, the Hot Club do Rio. Raffaelli accounted, in a private testimony, of one of those musical meetings where he knew a boy who lived with the family who had been enlisted, but had been recovering from a tuberculosis. They were listening to a Red Rodney 10" LP recorded for Imperial, on which the second track was Chopin's "Minute" valse in a jazz rendition. When the third track began, one of the listeners commented, "Isto dá samba..." (loosely, "it can be turned into samba rhythm"); Alf replied that that track couldn't, but the previous one could. Challenged, he went to the piano and composed his masterpiece samba "Seu Chopin, Desculpe," with lyrics and music done in only 15 minutes. Some months later, Raffaelli met César de Alencar casually on the street as he was then the most popular radio host in Brazil. de Alencar told him that he was opening a new nightclub and was looking for a pianist who could sing both in Portuguese and English and wasn't expensive. Alf, who had been previously mentioned to de Alencar by Farney, was chosen and began to play at the Cantina do César, at Rua Rodolfo Dantas, Copacabana. That was in 1950, when Tom Jobim was an unknown who after his day gig would go to the Cantina do César to learn those crazy harmonies, that new comping style (inspired by Nat "King" Cole's), and that new compositional style, having even formally asked Alf to teach him. At the Cantina do César, Alf was approached by actress Mary Gonçalves, who'd been elected Queen of Radio of 1952. She included on her debut album, Convite ao Romance, four of Alf's compositions, "Estamos Sós," "O que é Amar," "Podem Falar," and "Escuta." Alf then went to the Monte Carlo nightclub, playing with violinist Fafá Lemos' group. Alf's first recording (for Sinter) dates from this period (September 1952), with his "Falseta" accompanied by the great Garoto (violão), and bassist Vidal. He also played at nightclubs Mandarim, Clube da Chave, and Drink. Already a renowned musician on the artistic scenery, Alf began to play at the focal point of the nascent bossa nova, the Plaza nightclub at the Avenida Princesa Isabel. A meeting point for all people interested in jazz music, the Plaza was the cradle of bossa, not the South side apartments generally associated within that, and Alf consolidated his position there as a seminal influence in modern Brazilian music. In 1954, before the bossa movement boomed in Rio, Alf felt segregated from the other musicians, so he moved to São Paulo. His extraordinary musicality frightened the competition. He primarily went there to open the nightclub Baiuquinha at Major Sertório. After that, at Michel, he played with the then novices Paulinho Nogueira, Sabá, and Luís Chaves. In 1955, he recorded a 78 rpm album for Copacabana Brasil, which is considered by several musicologists to be the first bossa nova album, three years before João Gilberto's Chega de Saudade. In 1961, he was invited by composer Chico Feitosa to perform at the historic Carnegie Hall Bossa Nova Festival, but Alf refused the invitation. That was the year he recorded his first LP, Rapaz de Bem, for RCA. The next year, he spent a season in Rio at the Bottle's Bar, which also featured Sérgio Mendes, Luís Carlos Vinhas, Sílvia Telles, and Tamba Trio. With the important drummer Edison Machado and bassist Tião Neto, he formed a trio that performed at the Little Club and Top Club. In 1964, he recorded the LP Diagonal (RCA) and in 1965, Johnny Alf (Mocambo). In 1967, his composition "Eu e a Brisa" was presented at TV Record's III FMPB (Brazilian popular music festival) by singer Márcia. Taken by the tropicalista novelties of "Alegria, Alegria" (Caetano Veloso) and "Domingo no Parque" (Gilberto Gil), the jury neglected that song, which only one month after would became one of the biggest hits of Alf's career. In 1971, he recorded Ele é Johnny Alf for Parlophon. In 1974, he recorded Nós (Odeon) and in 1978, Desbunde Total (Chantecler). Away from the studios during the whole decade of 1980, he recorded a new album in 1990 for RCA, Olhos Negros. In 1997, together with distinguished arranger/pianist Leandro Braga, he recorded an album dedicated to his personal interpretation of one of the most traditional samba composers of Brazil -- Noel Rosa -- which was somewhat ironic, as he was so many times mistakenly regarded as an Americanized composer/performer. In that year, he also did tribute shows to Ary Barroso. In 1998, he recorded live Cult Alf for Natasha. In 1999, he was commissioned for the composition of popular theme songs for bishop Dom Pedro Casaldáliga's social poems and the production was recorded on the CD As Sete Palavras de Cristo na Cruz (Paulinas). Also in 1999, Alf recorded the CD Eu e a Bossa for Rob Digital, regretting in later interviews the label's choice of title and subtitle (40 Years of Bossa Nova). In that year, he was also the 20th artist awarded for lifelong achievement with a Prêmio Shell. During all his life, he has kept a regular schedule as a nightclub performer. ~ Alvaro Neder, All Music Guide Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.