They shot the piano player : a graphic novel
Trueba, Fernando2024
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An investigation and celebration of the origins of the world-renowned Latino musical samba-jazz movement Bossa Nova, 'They Shot The Piano Player' captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning-point in Latin American history in the '60s and '70s, before the continent was riven by totalitarian regimes. Francisco Tenorio Cerqueira Junior, born in Rio de Janeiro, was one of the most recognised musicians of the samba-jazz movement. At 3 a.m. on 18 March 1976, after giving a concert at the Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, the 34-year-old pianist went out to get some cigarettes. He was never seen again. What happened that night? This is the question that moves the narrator of this documentary graphic novel to initiate an investigation into the fateful events that led to the death of a musician destined to change the course of Brazilian music forever.
Main title:
They shot the piano player : a graphic novel / Fernando Trueba ; illustrated by Javier Mariscal.
Imprint:
London : SelfMadeHero, 2024.London : SelfMadeHero, 2024.
Collation:
256 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
ISBN:
9781914224249 (hbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2999868