Antonio Carlos Jobim’s music was a primary factor in the growing popularity of Latin-American music in America during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Often his music is played as a bossa nova — a style which is an hybridization of traditional Brazilian rhythms and jazz — that Jobim created. Some of his most well-known songs are Wave, The Girl from Ipanema and Desafinado.
Kim Scharnberg has arranged No More Blues for the recording called Four of a Kind, which is a trombone quartet including Joseph Alessi, Blair Bollinger, Scott Hartman and Mark Lawrence. He chose another — more passionate — Latin beat, the samba, for his arrangement.
Kim Scharnbergwas born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and is an honors graduate of the Eastman School of Music. Based in Los Angeles since 1985, he has been involved in a wide variety of work for film, television, advertising, records and live performance. Orchestrations for theater include Houston’s Alley Theatre 1990 premier and Theatre Under The Stars 1995 production of Jekyll and Hyde. The show is currently on a national tour and headed to Broadway in the Spring of 1996. Orchestrations for film: Made in America, The Net, Quiz Show, The Getaway, Fire in the Sky, Nowhere to Run, Miami Rhapsody and the Oscar nominated score for A River Runs Through It. Composing/orchestrating for television: Dallas, Knots Landing, Brisco County, Jr., three Incredible Hulk movies-of-the-week and the 1994 movie-of-the-week, Lies of the Heart. Kim was associate producer, conductor and orchestrator for Atlantic Record’s Jekyll & Hyde, The Complete Work. He also orchestrated, arranged and conducted the London recording of Jekyll & Hyde, Romantic Highlights. He has done arrangements and orchestrations for Liza Minnelli, Ben Vereen, Linda Eder. Laura Branigan, Wendy MaHarry, Empire Brass, St. Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and Rochester Philharmonic. Kim has also scored dozens of theatrical movie trailers and commercials.
