Prolific Brazilian composer and pianist Joao Donato dies at 88

Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, died Monday. He was 88.

Donato was prolific and inventive, collaborating with top artists at home and abroad, including Chet Baker, João Gilberto, Sergio Mendes, Tito Puente, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and countless others.

"Today we lost one of our greatest and most creative composers," Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrote on Twitter.

"João Donato saw music in everything. He innovated, he passed through samba, bossa nova, jazz, forro and in the mixture of rhythm built something unique. He kept creating and innovating until the end."

At: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1188217314/pianist-joao-donato-dead-bossa-nova

Brazilian Jazz composer João Donato and his 1973 hit, Amazonas.