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‘They Shot the Piano Player’; the Joy of Bossa Nova, and the Tragedy of Latin America

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John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThey were all so incredibly young. Caetano Veloso opened Salvador’s Vila Velha Theater, a milestone event for the city, at the age of 21.

Pianist Francisco Tenório Jr., the subject of Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s “They Shot the Piano Player,” recorded one record as band leader, in March 1964, when he was 23 years old.But he played piano on some of the greatest samba jazz records of all time, some with Raul de Sousa on trombone and J.T.

Meirelles on tenor sax.“These guys were the geniuses of Brazil music and they were only 23 years old,” Oscar winning writer-director Fernando Trueba (“Belle Epoque”) told Variety at Annecy.If Tenório isn’t better known, it is partly because he was murdered, “desaparecido,” in 1976 in Argentina while on tour, a full life suddenly annulled at the age of 35, as a military coup d’etat took hold of the country.

Nobody asked the Argentine police to investigate his death, given they were part of the forces of order who had killed him, Spanish writer-director Fernando Trueba remarked on stage at Annecy this week, where “They Shot the Piano Player” was unveiled as a Work in Progress.Decades later, Trueba’s interview with Tenório Jr.’s widow, Carmen – for what was then conceived as a documentary on Tenório – was the first interview she had ever been asked to give.The history of Latin America is so often one of defeat. “They Shot the Piano Player” tries to get to the truth on multiple levels.

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