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They Shot the Piano Player: A Graphic Novel

English

By (author): Fernando Trueba

Illustrated by: Javier Mariscal

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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 511g
  • Dimensions: 260 x 190mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: SelfMadeHero
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781914224249

About Fernando Trueba

Javier Mariscal is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer. After winning instant acclaim in 1979 for the bar-sky-wave logo for his adoptive city of Barcelona he went on to create Cobi (the mascot of the citys 1992 Olympics) and Twipsy a character designed for the Hanover 2000 Expo that later featured in an animated TV series. Born in Valencia he opened Estudio Mariscal in Barcelona in 1989 and was the subject of a major retrospective at Londons Design Museum in 2009. An exhibition of his work opened in Barcelona in September 2010 at the Pedrera one of Gaudís most famous buildings. Fernando Trueba is a multi-award-winning writer director and producer with a career spanning more than three decades in film television documentaries theatre and music. His many directing credits include Belle Époque (1992) La niña de tus ojos (1998) and Calle 54 (2000) a Latin-jazz documentary that prompted his enduring collaboration and friendship with Javier Mariscal.

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