Orfeu Negro ,Samba de Orpheo,Performed by the Per Lofgren Trio,
Brazilian jazz,orfeu,
Bonfá was born on October 17, 1922, in Rio de Janeiro. He began teaching himself to play guitar as a child; he studied in Rio with Uruguayan classical guitarist Isaías Sávio from the age of twelve. These weekly lessons entailed a long, harsh commute by rail and on foot from his family home in the western rural outskirts of Rio de Janeiro to the teacher’s home in the hills of Santa Teresa. Given Bonfá’s extraordinary ded