Black Orpheus Backing Track Bossa Nova - Apply your knowledge to this one of the most important songs in Brazilian jazz.

"Manhã de Carnaval" is a bossa nova song composed in the late 50s by Luiz Bonfá and Antônio Maria. It is also common to find it under the name "Black Orpheus" due to the great success of the film directed by French filmmaker Marcel Camus, who won the Oscar for best foreign film in 1960, based on the play "Orfeu da Conceição" by Vinicius de Moraes. This song helped consolidate the bossa nova movement and give this style worldwide respect.

There are fantastic interpretations of this song by artists of different styles, we can mention Chet Atkins, John McLaughlin, George Benson, Placido Domingo, Stan Getz, Cher, André Rieu, Maysa, Vince Guaraldi, Gerry Mulligan, Mongo Santamaria, Frank Sinatra, Joan Baez, Cal Tjader, Julio Iglesias, Earl Klugh, Oscar Peterson, Dexter Gordon, Ahmad Jamal, Gary Burton, Clara Nunes, Nara Leão, Tuck Andress, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ray Brown, Leny Andrade, John McLaughlin, Luis Miguel, Gal Costa, Luciano Pavarotti, Caetano Veloso, Baden Powell, Paquito D'Rivera, Emilio Santiago, Maria Bethania, Astrud Gilberto, Oscar Castro Neves, Franck Pourcel, Ed Bickert, Nara Leão and many others.

This Brazilian jazz standard can be found in the "Real Book vol.1" on page 49 and in the "Almir Chediak Songbook Bossa Nova vol. 2" on page 84.

This backing track consists of drums, double bass and piano. The tempo is at 120bpm.

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