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>João Donato
Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist, probably best known for his numerous albums as bandleader. He first worked with Altamiro Carrilho, and went on to perform with other masters of the genre such as Tom Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, as well as a host of others. From 1953, now as a piano player, Donato begins to lead his own instrumental groups, Donato e seu Conjunto, Donato Trio, the group Os Namorados, with whom he launches on 78 RPM instrumental versions of American and Brazilian music standards (such as "Tenderly", a Nat King Cole hit) and ("Se acaso você chegasse", by Lupicinio Rodrigues, a samba composer from the state of Rio Grande do Sul).