They Shot the Piano Player
They Shot the Piano Player
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Authors: Fernando Trueba & Javier Mariscal
Brazil | c 1970 to c 1980 | Jazz | Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction | History: specific events & topics
Published on 3rd October 2024 by SelfMadeHero in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 256 pages, Full Colour Illustrations
196mm x 268mm x 27mm | 1124g
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 Tenório Cerqueira Júnior, born in Rio de Janeiro, was one of the most recognized 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.
