Deodato

Brazilian-born keyboardist, arranger and producer Eumir Deodato has racked up 16 platinum records, while his discography, including compilations and all his work as arranger, producer and keyboardist, surpasses over 450 albums. But despite such a successful career, the man known as simply 'Deodato' will always be best known for his brilliant adaptation of the Richard Strauss classicalopus, "Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme From 2001: A Space Odyssey)". Taken from his classic 1972 CTI recording Prelude, the unlikely hit sold over a million copies and catapulted Deodato to international stardom. Today, his legacy can be found in a host of songs as artists as diverse as Fun Loving Criminals, Fatboy Slim and Lupe Fiasco have sampled his music, while forty years on he reunited with fellow CTI musicians Billy Cobham, Airto alongside Al Jarreau to release 'The Crossing' on Expansion Records

Until his '72 recording for CTI, Deodato had been better known as an arranger for the likes of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Wes Montgomery and Frank Sinatra and for his own series of classic Bossa Nova albums recorded back home in Brazil. But when CTI head Creed Taylor gave Deodato the chance to record his own album for the label, the result was a series of jazz inflected covers of classical music which spawned a massive world-wide club hit with his Latin tinged take on Strauss's classic theme!

Following the release of Prelude, Deodato became a major name going on to record many more albums and working behind the scenes on some of the world most loved classics – he arranged Roberta flacks' seminal 'killing me Softly' alongside Kool and the Gang's 'Celebration' (amongst many many more) and later arranged three Bjork Albums – 'Post', Telegram' and Homogenic' of which he lists as one of his most interesting associations.

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Artists: EUMIR DEODATO – composer, musical director, keyboards, GRAEME FLOWERS – trumpet, DAVE WILLIAMSON – trombone, BEN CASTLE – alto/tenor sax/flute, GRAEME BLEVINS – saxes, AL CHERRY – guitar, ANDREW McKINNEY – bass, PAT ILLINGWORTH – drums, SNOWBOY – percussion