Eumir Deodato

Eumir Deodato de Almeida ( born 22 June 1943) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, and bossa nova.

Deodato has arranged and produced more than 500 records for acts such as Frank Sinatra, Roberta Flack, Björk and Christophe, as well as produced Kool & the Gang's hits "Celebration", "Ladies' Night" and "Too Hot".

Deodato was nominated for three Grammy Awards and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1974 for "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)." The song peaked at number 2 on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 in March 1973. It reached number 3 in Canada and number 7 on the British charts.

Biography

Deodato began his musical life on accordion when he was 12 years old, and then piano two years later. He studied orchestration, conducting and arranging. He played bossa nova in bands with Durval Ferreira and Roberto Menescal, then formed his own band with Menescal in 1962. Eumir’s paternal grandfather was a marble craftsman from Custonaci, Sicily.

Career

Recording career

Deodato often plays the Fender Rhodes electric piano. He became successful as a keyboard player in the 1970s. Since then, he has produced and arranged music on more than 500 albums for artists such as Kool and the Gang, Con Funk Shun, Björk, Christophe and k.d. lang. Guitarist John Tropea and flautist Hubert Laws appeared on his early albums.

Prelude, his first album in the U.S., was released in 1973. This album was crossover music style that attracted a large audience and was produced by Creed Taylor for his label CTI. The album sold 5 million copies and earned Deodato the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the track Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) as well as a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.

His second album, Deodato 2, reached number 19 on the Billboard album chart, and the single "Rhapsody in Blue" reached No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973. His interpretation of Pavane pour une infante défunte ("Pavane for a Dead Princess") by Maurice Ravel was used in the 1970s by an Australian television station as background music.

In 1978, he had an orchestral hit with Whistle Bump from the LP titled Love Island. The track promoted the widespread use of whistles in nightclubs at the time. However, his popularity in the discos was solidified when he released the 1979 single Night Cruiser from the album of the same name, which earned him a third Grammy nomination for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. Deodato continued recording through the 1980s. In 1985, he had two hits, "S.O.S., Fire in the Sky" and "Are You For Real", on Billboard magazine'ss top 20 Dance chart.

He recorded Live in Rio in 2007. In 2011, he released the album The Crossing, which he produced with Lino Nicolosi and Pino Nicolosi at Nicolosi Productions, with guest vocalist Al Jarreau. In 2010 he played the rhodes piano in the album Oasis produced and performed by Marita Pauli. In 2018 he arranged and conducted the strings orchestra in the album The First released by Riccardo Dalli Cardillo.

Arranging and producing

Since the 1960s, Deodato has been in demand as a producer and arranger. He has worked on more than 500 albums, and 15 have reached platinum status as defined by the RIAA.

In the early 1960s, he worked as a freelance arranger for Odeon Records. He wrote arrangements for Wilson Simonal, Marcos Valle, and for his debut album, Inútil Paisagem (1964), which was dedicated to the work of Antônio Carlos Jobim and recorded in Rio when Deodato was 22. Jobim praised him in the album's liner notes. Deodato played piano with guitarists Oscar Castro-Neves and Roberto Menescal. He has been credited for helping to start the career of Milton Nascimento. He was part of a committee tasked with choosing songs for a festival, and Deodato chose three by Nascimento.

He moved to New York City in 1967 to work with guitarist Luiz Bonfá and vocalist Astrud Gilberto. He met record producer Creed Taylor, who hired him to write arrangements for musicians at CTI Records who included Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Paul Desmond. Deodato also worked with Joao Donato (1970), Youg, Holt Unlimited (1973) and Luiz Bonfá (1973). He had other collaborations, including producing Kool and the Gang from the late 1970s to the early 1980s and the first solo album by Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners in 1988 as well as arranging Bjork's albums Post, Telegram and Homogenic. For his Love Island, Deodato co-wrote the song "Tahiti Hut" with Maurice White. "Tahiti Hut", with lyrics written for it afterwards, was recorded by the band Switch with guest vocals by Jermaine Jackson.

Deodato wrote scores for the films The Gentle Rain (1966), The Black Pearl (1977), The Onion Field (1979) and Bossa Nova (2000).

in WP (English)

"As most baby-boomer jazz fans will recall, Brazilian pianist, producer and arranger Eumir Deodato, billed by only his surname, created quite a stir in the early 1970s when his LPs Prelude and Deodato 2 helped define the sultry, sharp vibe of CTI Records. One particular track on Prelude, Deodato’s funky recasting of Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” became a hit, won a Grammy and is now an enduring cultural footnote. Deodato hasn’t released new music in a long time, and The Crossing appears to be an attempt to gain some 21st-century relevance. The results are mixed."

in https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/eumir-deodato-the-crossing/

Discography

Albums

1964
Inutil Paisagem
Forma Ideias..
Samba Nova Concepção
1965
Bossa Nova for Swinging Lovers
The Gentle Rain
1972
Percepção
1973
Prelude
Deodato 2
Donato Deodato (with João Donato)
Os Catedraticos 73
1974
In Concert (with Airto Moreira)
Whirlwinds
Artistry
1975
First Cuckoo
Love, Strings and Jobim
1976
Very Together
1978
Love Island
1979
Knights of Fantasy
1980
Night Cruiser
1982
Happy Hour
1984
Motion
1989
In Concert
Somewhere Out There
2009
Live in Rio
2010
The Crossing

As sideman

With Luiz Bonfa
The Bonfa Magic (Milestone, 1993)
Jacaranda (JSR, 1998)
Black Orpheus Impressions (Sony, 2000)

With Astrud Gilberto
Gilberto with Turrentine (CTI, 1971)
Now (Perception, 1972)

With Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim)
Stone Flower (CTI, 1970)
Tide (Verve/A&M, 1970)
Antonio Carlos Jobim's Finest Hour (Verve, 2000)

With Kool & the Gang
Ladies' Night (De-Lite, 1979)
Something Special (De-Lite, 1981)
As One (De-Lite, 1982)

With Ithamara Koorax
Ithamara Koorax Sings the Luiz Bonfa Songbook (Paddle Wheel, 1996)
Serenade in Blue (Milestone, 2000)

With Roberto Menescal
A Nova Bossa Nova (Elenco, 1964)
The Boy from Ipanema Beach (Kapp, 1965)
Bossa Nova (Odeon, 1998)
A Bossa Nova De Roberto Menescal (Elenco/EmArcy/Universal 2004)

With Milton Nascimento
Courage (A&M/CTI, 1969)
Clube Da Esquina (EMI, 1972)

With Frank Sinatra
Sinatra & Company (Reprise, 1971) (side one arrangements)

With Brenda K. Starr
Brenda K. Starr (MCA, 1987)
By Heart (Epic, 1991)

With Stanley Turrentine
Salt Song (CTI, 1971)
The Baddest Turrentine (CTI, 1973)
The Sugar Man (CTI, 1975)

With Marcos Valle
Braziliance! (Warner Bros., 1966)
Samba '68 (Verve, 1968)

With others
Anthony and the Camp, Suspense (Warner Bros., 1988)
Charles Aznavour, Toujours (EMI, 2011)
Camp Lo, Uptown Saturday Night (Profile, 1997)
Tony Cicco, ...E Mo' Parlamm'e Musica (RCA 1987)
Billy Cobham, Drum 'n' Voice Vol. 4 (Nicolosi, 2016)
Dazz Band, Rock the Room (RCA Victor, 1988)
Milton DeLugg, Accordion My Way-Ole! (RCA Victor, 1967)
Paul Desmond, Summertime (A&M, 1968)
Eliane Elias, So Far So Close (Blue Note, 1989)
Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly (Atlantic, 1973)
Aretha Franklin, Let Me in Your Life (Atlantic, 1974)
Michael Franks, Burchfield Nines (Warner, 1978)
Fun Lovin' Criminals, Come Find Yourself (EMI, 1996)
Fun Lovin' Criminals, The Grave and the Constant EP (Chrysalis, 1996)
Larry Graham, Fired Up (Warner Bros., 1998)
Kleeer, Seeekret (Atlantic, 1985)
Kleiton & Kledir, Dois (Som Livre, 1996)
Tito Madi, Balanco Zona Sul E Outros Sucessos (Odeon, 1966)
Chuck Mangione, Disguise (Columbia, 1984)
Maysa, Maysa (Elenco, 1964)
Lisa Ono, Pretty World Suite! (Supuesto! 2000)
Jorge Pescara, Grooves in the Temple (2005)
Pretty Poison, Catch Me I'm Falling (Virgin, 1988)
Quarteto em Cy, Quarteto em Cy (Forma, 1964)
Ranieri, Meditazione (CGD, 1976)
Dom Um Romao, Lake of Perseverance (Irma, 2001)
Kevin Rowland, The Wanderer (Mercury, 1988)
Wanda Sa, Wanda Vagamente (RGE, 1964)
Steve & Eydie, Steve & Eydie, Bonfa & Brazil (CBS/Sony, 1987)
Riccardo Dalli Cardillo, The First (DCP, 2018)

Singles

1973
"Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" / "Spirit of Summer"
"Rhapsody in Blue" / "Super Strut"
1974
"Do It Again" (live) / "Branches" (live) (B-side is by Airto)
"Moonlight Serenade" / "Havana Strut"
1975
"Caravan" / "Watusi Strut"
1976
"Theme from Peter Gunn" / "Amani"
1978
"Pina Colada" / "Love Island"
"Whistle Bump" / "Love Island"
1979
"Shazam" / "Space Dust"
1980
"Night Cruiser" / "Groovation"
"East Side Strut" / "Uncle Funk"
1982
"Keep It in the Family" / "Keep on Movin'"
"Happy Hour" / "Sweet Magic"
1984
"S.O.S. Fire in the Sky" / "East Side Strut"
"Are You for Real" / "Motion"
1989
"Everybody Wants My Girl" (featuring Tom Hammer)
2010
"Double Face" (feat. Al Jarreau) (UK only release)

Interviews

https://youtu.be/zkxm1IRRw3w

https://youtu.be/8x3NhqDxGqM

https://youtu.be/fyrzlo05hZc

https://youtu.be/a-JDDktGY_Y

https://youtu.be/ukwjIq9ciT0

https://youtu.be/jhmkCVfAfVw

Videos

https://youtu.be/l_ivvEDV5_0

https://youtu.be/qJK3eUP5Hvg

https://youtu.be/zrnsMkVd6Nk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge0vaqnijB0&list=OLAK5uy_kB9izQwSk2...

https://youtu.be/FktLQjmOFrk

https://youtu.be/boXD-tsBuOA

https://youtu.be/4na_zLuR570

https://youtu.be/N9m0QjsxlJE

Streaming

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FTe4QSnyVtCbexgIOzIAS

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/eumir-deodato/861473

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWs9xaFCjcZYTt8d_kwUwbQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWs9xaFCjcZYTt8d_kwUwbQ/playlists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge0vaqnijB0&list=OLAK5uy_kB9izQwSk2...

https://www.amazon.it/music/player/artists/B008L2AP72/deodato

https://www.deezer.com/br/artist/54703

References

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219953/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/83740-Eumir-Deodato

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000212614

https://www.billboard.com/artist/deodato/chart-history/hsi/

https://www.last.fm/music/Eumir+Deodato

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/17/archives/jazz-deodatos-jamming.html

https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/eumir-deodato-just-a-b...

https://web.archive.org/web/20120718083704/https://www.allmusic.com...

https://www.jazzconvention.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...

https://www.dustygroove.com/browse.php?cat=jazz&kwfilter=Eumir+Deod...

https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/eumir-deodato-the-crossing/

https://becodaspalavras.com/2021/09/15/eumir-deodato-um-dos-maiores...

https://cultura.uol.com.br/radio/programas/estacao-cultura/2023/06/...

https://musicnonstop.uol.com.br/bjorkrespire-fundo-e-mergulhe-na-vi...

https://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Musica/0,,MUL9654-7085,00-DE+PASSAGEM...

https://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Musica/0,,MUL14919-7085,00-EUMIR+DEOD...

https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/diversao-e-arte/2...

https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/diversao-e-arte/2...

https://oganpazan.com.br/eumir-deodato-jazz-moderno/

https://radios.ebc.com.br/jazz-livre/2020/10/confira-eumir-deodato-...

https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2007/0...

https://istoe.com.br/eumir-deodato-avo-brasileiro-de-hailey-bieber-...

http://www.jazzitalia.net/iocero/bluebrass_deodato.asp

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/eumir-deodato/

https://www.bluenotemilano.com/evento/eumir-deodato/

http://www.bravocaffe.it/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2...

http://www.cottonjazzclub.it/news/item/285-eumir-deodato-27-novembr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumir_Deodato

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumir_Deodato

Eumir Deodato (full name Eumir Deodato de Almeida) is a Grammy Award winning Brazilian musician, record producer and arranger, primarily based in the jazz realm but who historically has been known for eclectic melding of big band and combo jazz with varied elements of rock/pop, R&B/funk, Brazilian/Latin, and symphonic or orchestral music. Mainly, his records can be categorized as pop/jazz or crossover jazz. His successes as an original artist (keyboards) occurred mainly in the 1970s. Since then, he has produced or arranged music in more than 500 albums for acts ranging from Kool and the Gang to Björk, Christophe and k.d. lang.

Eumir Deodato de Almeida (Rio de Janeiro, 22 de junho de 1943) é um pianista, arranjador e produtor musical brasileiro. Participou do movimento Bossa Nova e da efervescência do samba jazz no início da década de 1960, estabelecendo-se como requisitado arranjador, ao lado de nomes consagrados como Radamés Gnattali e Moacir Santos.

Após breve carreira como líder de conjunto no Brasil, radica-se nos Estados Unidos da América onde, afiliando-se à gravadora CTI Records, trabalha com diversos nomes de relevo da música mundial, como Aretha Franklin, Wes Montgomery e Frank Sinatra. Na década seguinte, conseguiu gravar e lançar seus discos solo internacionalmente, obtendo sucesso também como intérprete, com uma versão da introdução do poema sinfônico "Also sprach Zarathustra", de Richard Strauss.

Trabalhou em quase 500 discos, escreveu trilha sonora para vários filmes e recebeu diversos prêmios, entre eles 16 discos de platina e um Grammy, sendo considerado "uma personalidade internacional no mercado norte-americano de música".

Carreira

Deodato iniciou sua carreira apresentando-se ao lado de Roberto Menescal e Durval Ferreira, em 1959, no auge da Bossa Nova. No começo da década de 1960 começou a se estabelecer como arranjador, mesmo sendo muito jovem fez arranjos para o álbum de estreia de Marcos Valle e para três discos de Wilson Simonal, incluindo o elogiado A Nova Dimensão do Samba, que contém a versão do cantor carioca para "Nanã" do maestro Moacir Santos.

Em 1964, lança, pela gravadora Forma, Inútil Paisagem, clássico do samba jazz, em que interpreta apenas canções de Tom Jobim podendo ser sentida a influência de Gil Evans nos arranjos e um uso inventivo da orquestração, bem como a criatividade na escolha dos timbres.

Em seguida, reuniu vários nomes famosos do samba jazz, como Geraldo Vespar, Wilson das Neves, Dom Um Romão e Ivan Conti (o baterista Mamão), para formar o supergrupo Os Catedráticos que lançaram três discos em 1964 e 1965. Continuou trabalhando como arranjador e produtor de álbuns como Balanço Zona Sul e Outros Sucessos, de Tito Madi e, também, como selecionador prévio do Festival Internacional da Canção, sendo considerado um dos responsáveis pelo lançamento do compositor Milton Nascimento ao selecionar músicas suas para o festival e ao arranjar seu disco de estreia, Travessia.

Em 1967, mudou-se para Nova Iorque a convite de Luiz Bonfá para escrever arranjos para discos seus e Eumir estabelece-se como arranjador e produtor musical na gravadora CTI Records, vindo a trabalhar nos discos de Tom Jobim, Walter Wanderley, Paul Desmond, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Roberta Flack (escrevendo o arranjo de "Killing Me Softly with His Song"), Wes Montgomery e Ray Bryant, entre outros.

Em 1972, grava, no Brasil, o disco Percepção, lançado pela EMI-Odeon, e, em setembro do mesmo ano, recebe a chance de gravar seu primeiro álbum solo fora do Brasil e o resultado é Prelude, lançado pela CTI Records em janeiro de 1973.

O álbum surpreendeu a todos com uma versão jazzística e suingada da introdução de "Also sprach Zarathustra", do compositor de música clássica Richard Strauss durante o ano de 1973. A canção, um poema sinfônico que havia tornado-se famoso ao ser largamente utilizada por Stanley Kubrick no seu filme de 1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey, atingiu o segundo lugar na parada de sucessos norte-americana e foi a 7ª mais ouvida no Reino Unido. Com isso, o álbum acabou vendendo 5 milhões de cópias, ficando em terceiro lugar na parada de sucessos de álbuns da Billboard, e Deodato ganhou o Grammy de melhor performance instrumental de música pop no ano de 1974.

Ainda em 1973, grava com João Donato o álbum Donato Deodato no qual conduz e faz arranjos para o conjunto do pianista brasileiro radicado nos Estados Unidos da América. Nos anos seguintes, gravou com bastante frequência, pela CTI Records, MCA Records, Chantecler e WEA, destacando-se sua parceria com Airto Moreira, em 1974, bem como dedicou-se, também, ao trabalho como produtor e arranjador, destacando-se sua parceria com a banda Kool & the Gang, entre 1979 e 1983.

Na década de 1980, continuou atuando como arranjador e produtor, diminuindo o ritmo das gravações. Participou da produção de vários filmes de Hollywood escrevendo ou participando da trilha sonora, como Being There e Os Caça-fantasmas II. Nos anos 1990, destaca-se o seu trabalho com a cantora islandesa Björk, assinando os arranjos dos discos Post, Telegram e Homogenic. Na década de 2000, continuou gravando, embora esparsamente, e tocando com seu trio, destacando-se, neste período, a trilha sonora que fez para o filme de Bruno Barreto, Bossa Nova, em 2000. Em 2016, apresentou-se no Sesc Belenzinho, em São Paulo.

Discografia

Os Catedráticos

Estúdio
1964 - Impulso!
1965 - Tremendão
1965 - Ataque
1965 - O Som dos Catedráticos
1973 - Os Catedráticos 73
1998 - Os Catedráticos Vol. 2

Coletâneas
1975 - Eumir Deodato e os Catedráticos Vol. 1
1976 - Eumir Deodato e os Catedráticos Vol. 2
1998 - Eumir Deodato e os Catedráticos

Intérprete

No Brasil

Estúdio
1964 - Inútil Paisagem
1965 - Ideias
1965 - Los Danceros en Bolero
1972 - Percepção

Internacional

Estúdio
1973 - Prelude
1973 - Deodato 2
1973 - Donato/Deodato (com João Donato)
1974 - Artistry
1974 - Whirlwinds
1975 - First Cuckoo
1976 - Very Together
1978 - Love Island
1979 - Knights Of Fantasy
1980 - Night Cruiser
1982 - Happy Hour
1985 - Motion
1989 - Somewhere Out There

Ao Vivo
1974 - In Concert (com Airto Moreira)
2007 - Eumir Deodato Trio Ao Vivo

Entrevistas

https://youtu.be/zkxm1IRRw3w

https://youtu.be/8x3NhqDxGqM

https://youtu.be/fyrzlo05hZc

https://youtu.be/a-JDDktGY_Y

https://youtu.be/ukwjIq9ciT0

https://youtu.be/jhmkCVfAfVw

Vídeos

https://youtu.be/l_ivvEDV5_0

https://youtu.be/qJK3eUP5Hvg

https://youtu.be/zrnsMkVd6Nk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge0vaqnijB0&list=OLAK5uy_kB9izQwSk2...

https://youtu.be/FktLQjmOFrk

https://youtu.be/boXD-tsBuOA

https://youtu.be/4na_zLuR570

https://youtu.be/N9m0QjsxlJE

Streaming

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FTe4QSnyVtCbexgIOzIAS

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/eumir-deodato/861473

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWs9xaFCjcZYTt8d_kwUwbQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWs9xaFCjcZYTt8d_kwUwbQ/playlists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge0vaqnijB0&list=OLAK5uy_kB9izQwSk2...

https://www.amazon.it/music/player/artists/B008L2AP72/deodato

https://www.deezer.com/br/artist/54703

Referências

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219953/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/83740-Eumir-Deodato

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000212614

https://www.billboard.com/artist/deodato/chart-history/hsi/

https://www.last.fm/music/Eumir+Deodato

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/17/archives/jazz-deodatos-jamming.html

https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/eumir-deodato-just-a-b...

https://web.archive.org/web/20120718083704/https://www.allmusic.com...

https://www.jazzconvention.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...

https://www.dustygroove.com/browse.php?cat=jazz&kwfilter=Eumir+Deod...

https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/eumir-deodato-the-crossing/

https://becodaspalavras.com/2021/09/15/eumir-deodato-um-dos-maiores...

https://cultura.uol.com.br/radio/programas/estacao-cultura/2023/06/...

https://musicnonstop.uol.com.br/bjorkrespire-fundo-e-mergulhe-na-vi...

https://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Musica/0,,MUL9654-7085,00-DE+PASSAGEM...

https://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Musica/0,,MUL14919-7085,00-EUMIR+DEOD...

https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/diversao-e-arte/2...

https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/diversao-e-arte/2...

https://oganpazan.com.br/eumir-deodato-jazz-moderno/

https://radios.ebc.com.br/jazz-livre/2020/10/confira-eumir-deodato-...

https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2007/0...

https://istoe.com.br/eumir-deodato-avo-brasileiro-de-hailey-bieber-...

http://www.jazzitalia.net/iocero/bluebrass_deodato.asp

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/eumir-deodato/

https://www.bluenotemilano.com/evento/eumir-deodato/

http://www.bravocaffe.it/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2...

http://www.cottonjazzclub.it/news/item/285-eumir-deodato-27-novembr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumir_Deodato

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumir_Deodato