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1. 1. Johnny Alf

   

   A concise portrait of the pianist-composer who helped shape bossa nova, tracing his rise from modest beginnings in Rio’s nightclub scene through creative experiments that blended samba and jazz, the key recordings and songs that circulated among contemporaries, his complicated relationships with the music industry and fellow artists, and the gradual recognition of his influence on later generations of Brazilian popular music.