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They Shot the Piano Player: A Graphic Novel

They Shot the Piano Player: A Graphic Novel

Author(s):
Fernando Trueba
ISBN: 9781914224249
Format: Hardcover
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Author: Fernando Trueba
ISBN: 9781914224249
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: SelfMadeHero

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.
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