"TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING YOU'VE GOT TO LOVE IT" "WHEN YOU LOVE SOMETHING THAT BRINGS ABILITY" "YOU BECOME INTERESTED YOU START LOOKING" "It's pretty nice there, by the tree." "Open it a bit more." "I'm not going to read it everything, Aninha." "There's no sound, right?" "Is there any sound?" "Leave it open." "Leave it open, it's more casual." "Can you see it?" "You can't see anything." "THE HOUSE OF TOM MUNDO, MONDE, MONDO" "Can I go now?" "No one says, 'Camera, action!" "'" ""I will build me a house High up on Chapadão" "I'II take along my piano That I Ieft in Canecão" "I will build me a house On the plateau way up high" "I'II take with me my beloved So I'II always be inspired" "I will build me a house High up in a chimera" "I'II create a new world, Invent a new Megaera" "I will build me a house Make it both long and wide" "And ask paulo for a room With Aninha inside" "I will place my old wind sock On top of a bamboo pole" "I'II make me a nice soft bed Make love with you real slow" "We'II be two lovely creatures In a world of ugliness" "The days will be filled with light And the nights with peacefulness"" "JARDIM BOTÂNICO'S HOUSE RIO DE JANEIRO, 1070" "Tom started writing the poem... when we picked out the plot in Jardim Botânico... where we've built our place." "The house took four years to be done." "The poem, eight." ""below the armpit of Christ So godly and so wise" "I will build me a house High up on the mountainside" "And I'II throw beautiful parties Waiters serve Dom Pérignon" "And I feed my good friend Lufa With the finest of bonbons" "I will build me a house Right there where the brook flows" "With plenty of clean water So I can wash my soul" "In my house there will be No such thing as holidays" "Every day will be holy filled with glory and grace" "Every day will be Friday Friday and Good Friday too" "I'II invite my friend along For a nice big fish stew"" "THE ARRIVAL OF THE PIANO, 1083" "On moving day, Tom's exclusive concern was the piano." "He himself had called the moving company." "He looked after each step... from coming out of the old house to getting in the new one... to positioning the piano in the living room." "I have an image of Tom in my mind... him coming down the stairs in all that mess... he was carrying a little Peruvian striped bag... where he'd put a couple of things." "When I saw the scene I said..." "'So you're moving in?" "'" "He stopped and smiled, realizing what was happening." "Tom chose to live by the forest." "The house was right by a natural reserve... a sanctuary from where one could see the ocean." "The Jardim Botânico was our home's backyard... a place for meditation, where he'd walk almost every morning." "In my childhood, brazil had 30 million inhabitants." "It was an immense country... uninhabited." "full of forests and wild animals." ""You sleep in the arms of unknown Springtime of a wild planet"" "Rio de Janeiro was totally wild then." "And Ipanema beach was beautiful, Iike that, a very soft sand... so much so that you'd run there and it wouId sing..." "The sand would sing." "Neruda says that Rio was..." ""the delirious door of an empty house... the old sin, the cruel salamander, untouched... in embers of huge pains of your people"." "beautiful, isn't it?" "When I was a year old, I was already living in Ipanema." "My first vague memories... are memories from Ipanema, from those sand dunes." "The lagoon with clean beaches, the harsh sand, big shells... and all sorts of mullets, snooks." "I had a happy childhood and youth there... if you can say that you're happy in this world." "I have nothing against living in california or Côte d'Azur... in australia." "Why not?" "including if people didn't move away, if they didn't migrate... there wouldn't be brazil." "Because Portuguese would remain in portugal..." "Spaniards would remain in Spain." "And all that, right?" "ViIIa-Lobos when he was 36, I think... he moved to Europe." "To Paris." "It's a coincidence." "When I was 36..." "I moved to New York." "But after working in Paris for a Iong time... having lived there and all..." "villa moved to New York." "He got an apartment there and moved to New York." "And Ieftists here in brazil started accusing him..." "'How come he's moving to the US?" "'" "Listen to it, the bird." "It's singing." "And here..." "Ieftists would say, 'He's going after dollars, this and that.'" "US dollar." "And ViIIa-Lobos... he came and gave an interview." "And he said..." "'It's true, the future of the world... will be socialism, communism will solve problems." "But right now I can't miss a market like the US.'" "Now you can imagine, ViIIa-Lobos was a joker." "A genius and a scoffer." "He'd say things like that." "'But right now I can't miss a market like the US.'" "Imagine that." "ViIIa-Lobos never had a thing, poor devil he was." "Bossa Nova brought good outcome in fact." "Meeting Vinicius, João Gilberto..." "Newton Mendonça, Dolores Duran." "And we ended up writing a lot of songs." "And we also ended up being sent... to the US, by ltamaraty." "I didn't want to go." "I wanted to stay in Brazil." "But I had to go." "I had never left brazil." "When I saw myself there, 'Wait." "Can't run back home.' And it was tempting with all that snow." "AII BraziIians, my fellow citizens... when the concert was over, they'd all run back home." "There were no beans, no rice in New York then." "It was the potato civilization." "German influence, Russian, polish influence." "people would eat potatoes." "If you asked for rice in N Y... the waiter would look at you Iike this..." "He'd find it weird." "But I found out that in the kitchen... because of Puerto-Ricans and Cubans... there was rice in the kitchen." "So you'd have to go round the waiter to get to the cook... and you'd get some rice." "Today there's a Iot of rice in New York." "A Iot of rice." "For me, New York has been... like a kind of resting place." "I mean, a place where l can think, where l can work... like I'm doing my homework." "Because Rio is a city that's too beautiful... and too distracting." "people have asked me my address." "'How come?" "Do you live in N Y?" "'" "An address is not important." "especially after a certain age." "Who cares where you live?" "'In my Father's house are many mansions.'" "'Father' with a capital 'F.'" "Drummond has a wonderful poem that says..." "'I apologize, gentlemen, but since it's so late..." "I feel I come before frontiers.'" "It means, he comes before them 'cause frontiers are fictitious." "The guy puts up a fence, he puts up something... and vultures fly over through it." "POÇO FUNDO RANCH, 1088" "I came here I believe it was in '42, '43." "My uncle had a big ranch here." "We were always seeing wild animals on the road." "A coati would go by, some armadiIIo would go by... a cavy would go by." "'Look over there, a cavy!" "'" "Take a look at the vultures up there." "As Guimarães Rosa would put it, you know what to expect... from the attitude." "That's the way to Dirindi." "That's where the word 'Dindi' comes, from my music." "This is an old piece of bushes, maybe more than 1 00 years old." "There are many great tinamus there... many guans, that kind of animal." "There are flat rocks over there... and we used to skip from one to the other... to reach the bushes on the other side." "And we'd walk all around those bushes." "Poço Fundo was a ranch used as family retreat." "Every one had their house, but they were all close by." "We'd get together at lunch time, dinner time... and usually these gatherings ended up everybody singing." "Where?" "Where is my little baby?" "beautiful!" "Come with daddy." "That's beautiful." "beautiful." "That was a place that inspired Tom a lot." "He had strong contact with nature there." "Poço Fundo had been part of his life since he was 1 5." "These plants, wild plants... only who lives in the bushes, with Indian blood, Iike me... can eat them, because they're pretty poisonous." "That's what I owe my longevity too." "It's a macrobian." "God obviously has many other planets like Earth... with many Brazils in that space." "It makes no difference to Him." "In the end, world destruction will only prove... our enormous incompetence... that we really are vermin." "ALL MY WORK IS INSPIRED B Y THE ATLANTIC FOREST" "To photograph the forest was a natural consequence... of my life with Tom." "Photography was the way I've found... to be closer to fundamental things he has shown to me." "Every brazilian should have..." "license to carry a matchbox." "Just like there's license to carry a gun." "Authorization." "There should be a license to carry a matchbox." "Because in these months of july, August... the guy gets here and lights up a match in the bush." "He lights it up down there, by the road... the fire comes up and destroys whatever you see now." "Catastrophic." "There have been fires in brazil that started in Minas Gerais... and burnt it all through up to the Espírito Santo coast." "I remember once Luís Bonfá and myself in BeIo Horizonte... and we couldn't fly to Rio because of the smoke... the dry smoke from fires." "In this time of year we see turkey vultures here." "They come to feed with animals the fire has killed... toads, frogs, lizards, snakes." "They're also called snake buzzards." "In the old days, it'd be really difficult for them to live here." "Because since this was all forest, virgin forest... they couldn't even see what animals were down there." "only buzzards who were really perseverant... that could sniff would enter the forest... to find the carrion down there." "Not our common vulture, because that uses eyesight." "As usual, the river is used as sewer, as dumpster." "Just like the sea." "As a matter of fact, I comment that in my poem 'Chapadão.'" "My wife has given me a paper so I wouldn't forget it." "'Mister vulture, garbage boy Can you face the situation ?" "Working hard all year round Don't you have a month's vacation ?" "Thank you, brother of mine My red vulture, dear friend" "The trash of nations of slobs You're cleaning up till the end" "And they say you are so ugly unlucky, wild, very crude'" ""You are a boundless donation eternal ingratitude"" "The more man destroys... the more there are vultures, the more we see vultures." "Their numbers are growing... because obviously if you kill and destroy... you feed vultures." "Talk about the thing from the hinterland..." "There." "But I want to talk about cattle." "I have something to talk about." "My cattle." "You said you didn't have anything to talk about." "There." "To work with the cattle." "I want to work with that." "Tom has read Guimarães Rosa a lot." "He was very fond of him." "If the man lays down there where a bull, a horse was... they say he becomes a bull, a horse, a goat." "And he goes as a werewolf." "Mr. Tom, can you believe..." "I hit the werewolf so hard that he'd only look at me... with his round face, his short little ears... all with goose bumps." "I though, 'He's after me...' l think he'd find in those people from Poço Fundo... some true of that he admired in the work of Guimarães Rosa." "Characters full of fantastic stories." "You see this thing here." "This is not a mango tree." "It's a hose." "In fact, it's not a hose." "It's from those hollywood guys." "It's cable, CBS, NBC cable." "It's funny." "When I recorded with Frank Sinatra... people here from São José thought Sinatra was here too." "I had a very little house by the river." "They went up there and wanted to get in to see Frank Sinatra." "I said, 'There's no Sinatra.'" "But they wouldn't believe it." "I had to let them in." "They went to the bedroom and looked under the bed." "Imagine that, Sinatra hidden under the bed in Poço Fundo." "I even had a jacket he'd offered me." "They took it." "It was stolen." "That was a good jacket." "A composer like me can write 400 songs... but he becomes famous just because of one or two of them." "When we wrote the song..." "Ipanema Beach was not known." "It was totally unknown, right?" "Today the whole world knows Ipanema Beach." "And the American writer didn't want to include 'Ipanema.'" "Ipanema, nobody knows it." "I was discussing with him in a taxi in N Y, as I recall." "I said, 'You've got to write Ipanema, it's important." "It's the place where the girl goes by, you see?" "'" "Because that's universal." "What's a universal feeling?" "You are sitting there, a beautiful girl goes by." "I mean, you might be a laborer, working in the fields... the girl goes by, you stop and look at the girl." "That's a universal feeling, you see?" "Maybe that's why the song went through times, it goes on." "Because girls still go to the beach... and they're more and more beautiful." "At that time we didn't go to the beach, we had beer." "They say intellectuals don't go to the beach, they drink." "PLATAFORMA BBQ RIO DE JANEIRO, 1087" "I wrote half a dozen songs, 'modinhas' as we call them." "I've never thought that it wouId cause... so many people to be upset, they were kind of upset." "TOM'S DOUBLE" "In these two latest years, for me... they've given me all kinds of prizes in the US, heavy ones." "The more prizes you win abroad... the more the press here... avoids telling the story of the prizes... and starts commenting on you personally." "They say you are... what's basically..." "They are fighting a lost cause." "To make a popular composer unpopular, not loved by people." "To turn the artist into an unscrupulous being... who's only concerned with money... because instead of talking of art he talks of money." "As if the purpose of art were making money." "No way." "I think it's just as written in the bible." "Take it to God." "As Chico says in his song." "Discuss it with God." "You've got to discuss those things with God." "Once you're spiritually ready, you live." "Obvious, you work." "And your work's product is the result." "We were created - I was created, at Ieast... hearing 'no,' ... you can't have that, you're poor." "And we'II get to a point when we'II have to face... we are already facing that... a stronger reality, much more than those theories." "This destiny of poverty." "It's not Iike that." "We were all communists, Ieftists." "We had to have many children to populate brazil." "We have multiplied yes but just our poverty." "Now we have misery everywhere." "Those theories haven't worked out in practice." "The other day I was talking to CarmeIo... at the newsstand in LebIon... and he was telling me, 'Tom, why don't you buy a slum?" "'" "I burst out laughing." "Never heard of anyone buying a slum." "Obvious, I'd buy a little one, I can't afford... buying a big slum like Rocinha." "By the way, they say there'II be TV Rocinha in the future... and that will be the TV that shows reality." "AT HOME IN NEW YORK, 1088" "The director can sing." "Aninha, how much am I making?" "I want to know how much I'm going to make." "exactly." "I'm making US$ 20." "You'II make a bit more." "'I will build me a house In confusion, such a thing" "In the hurricane's eye There the red vulture takes wing" "I will build me a house On the wing of yellow vulture" "My house will be secure On the wing of the red vulture" "It will be on the dry slope On the rise of the plateau" "Something's burning, there is smoke Where the vulture is suspended'" "'BackIands are everywhere.' Guimarães Rosa." "'There a breeze will always blow And the sun will always shine" "I want to see the whole world From my porch and way up high" "Up where the tinamou lives I will make my house right there" "It will be a place of peace It will be a house of prayer" "I'II forget all about sin Spend my days in meditation" "If I leave my house, the grave This will be my destination'" "It was a high-rise." "About 30 stories." "I'd chosen a sixth floor apartment." "No view at all, but double the size and half the price." "On the day of closing the deal, Tom was kind of unwilling... and the smart broker said... 'l've got something wonderful to show to you.'" "And she took us up to the 22nd floor." "Tom got there and it was the view, a fishbowl." "'A view with a room,' as he later nicknamed it." "And he said right away, 'l'm buying this place.' l said, 'lt's too expensive, Tom, and it's small.'" "'But this is the one I want.'" "Next day, I get a call from our accountant." "'Ana, please, don't let Tom buy this apartment.' l said, 'He's made up his mind." "He's going to buy it.'" "After the closing, the accountant said... 'l think he was right." "Perhaps I like money more than he does.'" "The whole house would follow a system." "Radios and TV would be on only in the children's bedroom." "That was due to respect, because noise would upset him." "'My friend Radamés Is the best thing there is" "He's a sunny day in the forest He's the fun of loving" "Radamés is high rise water A fountain that never dries" "He's a lovely waterfall Crying, the king of shuttlecock" "God didn't know what to give And He gave much more" "Bread was multiplied Sardines were multiplied" "Rada is a concert man A composer, a pianist" "An arranger A great conductor" "And more than that a friend He sails along with me" "On constant giving away" "He's helped everyone And more he's helped me" "hello Radamés, I'm calling Let's have a beer, it's Tom" "Pick you up at the same corner I've already gotten the peanuts'" "A loving message for my dear master Radamés... who's helped everyone." "He's gone a couple of months ago." "We've lost... this great... composer, conductor, this great brazilian." "ADAMS HOTEL TOM'S PLACE IN NEW YORK UP TO 1087" "Tom was just the same anywhere he lived." "He'd go on about the same way." "Piano, home, children." "He had his own peculiar routine." "When he was in New York, he liked going out anonymously." "He'd say New York was like a ranch... but he'd be pleased when he was recognized." "At a certain point, he felt the need to be in New York." "Not because it was New York, to do things." "Absolutely." "He was focused in his work." "He didn't care much for the world." "No." "In Rio, in Brazil, he had friends, family... his partners, and it was easier to exchange." "REHEARSAL OF TOM  CAYMMI'S SHOW AT HOME IN JARDIM BOTÂNICO, 1001" "Caymmi was like an entity in Tom's life... with a kind of wisdom he'd always had great respect for." "There's a kind of brotherhood between Tom and Caymmi... between Tom's children and Caymmi's children." "Tom loved playing music from other composers." "He'd feel really happy, he said he was good playing along." "Coffee!" "What a wonderful idea!" "brazilian coffee, isn't it?" "The more I work on these songs, the happier I am." "You know as years go by I'm always doing the same show." "For over 50 years." "I've learnt that from Frank Sinatra." "You can't change repertoire." "'Son, to be a rich man, you've got define repertoire." "You pick up a couple of songs and you don't change them." "And the guy who comes to see you won't get disappointed." "Think about it." "You come here, I don't sing 'Night and Day'?" "'" "Banda Nova was formed in '82, with a show in Vienna." "Conductor Peter Guth, from Vienna Symphony Orchestra... was interested in having Tom participating in a concert." "I believe it was an invitation only for Tom." "Tom accepted it and he saw Guth was serious... a person in love with his music and all that." "Every phone call Tom would include someone in the group." "First, 'l want to take my son Paulo along.'" "'There's Danilo Caymmi, an excellent flute." "I think it'll be very good.'" "The third time, he said he had a contrabass... and that was Tião Neto, and drums, Paulo Braga." "Finally, he included vocals." "Beth, his daughter..." "Simone Caymmi and myself." "And he wanted Tom so hard that he accepted it all." "Later, the chance of a show in Theatro Municipal in Rio..." "Tom called Paula Morelenbaum and Maucha Adnet." "He used to say they were professionals, we were family." "I remember Jaquinho - Jaques Morelenbaum... came over to watch the rehearsal." "I think he was kind of jealous." "Some time later, we were in Poço Fundo..." "Jaquinho got hold of the cello and played... and Tom said right away, 'You're hired.'" "TOM'S BIRTHDAY, 1086" "The Banda was a continuation of our home evening concerts." "We all were connected to him." "Children, friends, friends' wives." "Our parties were almost like rehearsals." "Suddenly, he'd be obsessed with a song... and we'd sing it all night long." "For a time, Tom would say, 'l want no plants, no animals." "When I was an old man, I had a big car, to take the family.'" "And then he had it all over again, plants, kids, animals." "It was all the opposite." "He made it right in many things but here he failed." "'In my house I will live I will live with my folks" "A long life I will live Don't want to die suddenly" "I'II stare at the huge rocks To understand, I'm in pain" "High up on the plateau I will forget my own name'" "Let's light the fire here... and burn these terrible women." "'I will build me a house Where breezes will never stop" "I'II take all river stones There, where the wind blows on top" "I will build me a den Right on the black vulture's beak" "It will be there, on the tip On the lovely sandbank's peak" "On the tracks of the wild wolf On the jaguar's lonely path" "It will drop right off the roof It will drop into the fire" "Roast jaguar I Iike so much Roasted on an open fire" "The fire we almost touch talking simple routine talks" "About pigs and partridge go Our talks of all night long" "About hunts of long ago In the forest of BraziI'" "Dadá!" "Get me a cup of coffee." "Can you get me an ashtray, Dadá?" "There was a time in New York I thought it would be nice... for Tom to have a place away from home to work." "He needed peace, privacy." "I found an apartment in our building... we set up a studio with piano and everything." "But it didn't last long." "Tom liked being at home, asking for coffee... showing what he was doing, asking our opinion." "I've asked him to stop because I'm working." "I couId've gone there, talked to the guy." "It'd be practical." "These guys have been there for months." "I've had problems." "They left the tap open and the water leaked... inside the wire conduits." "AII through." "Our bedroom's ceiling is full of water bubbles." "The guys let the sink clog and leave taps open." "At one in the morning, water starts dripping." "Vince said, 'They're doing some work.' But I'm working too." "I started photographing Tom as soon as we got married." "I used to be delighted with stories he'd tell me... about a period I hadn't lived." "I realized later I was recording another story." "Different from those ones, but just as good." "'My house, it is everywhere In the mundo, monde, mondo" "I sleep outdoors, over there only hornets need a house" "I will sew then such a wing At SyIvio's place I will stay" "So I can fly like a vulture From the plateau far away" "I will sell my tambourine I will take my old guitar" "My piano in Canecão I will play there like a star" "I'm going away from here I can't stay here, farewell" "Good-bye my pretty brunette I will take my plane, farewell" "I don't want to have a house The hornet, he needs a house" "I don't really need a house Since the airplane is my house" "And I tried to call the airport There were no planes any more" "So I have to do my trip On the wing of yellow vulture" "I think that this vulture's wing Is safer than anything'" "NAME:" "ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM NATIVE LAND:" "CARIOCA" "FOR JOÃO FRANCISCO AND MARIA LUIZA" "PHOTOS B Y ANA JOBIM, TAKEN BETWEEN 1070 AND 1004" "e à Vânia e José Roberto Marinho"