Older and wiser now, Deodato now picks his spots carefully, and is intrigued with the idea of playing a free festival near a lake, in a town about a two-hour drive from his home in Rockland County. Enough is enough.” Deodato also had less than fond memories of his tours supporting his CTI recordings. “I toured for 18 years, and I played everything from clubs to universities. He’d much rather work with staff paper and pencil and arrange string sections for musical pieces. My girlfriend said the people loved my playing,” Deodato says.Īfter years away from the road, touring didn’t excite Deodato at all. “To my surprise, or, not to my surprise - well, I was surprised - the reaction was good. Efforts to reach Creed Taylor for comment were unsuccessful. An extensive tour followed, but Deodato says he was never paid and never saw a penny from the debut record’s royalties. I was never far from music.”ĭeodato was in Brazil when CTI records, owned by veteran promoter Creed Taylor, released a shortened version of the 10-minute Strauss arrangement from Deodato’s self-titled debut album. “But I can understand if people think I was away. “I’m not that old,” says Deodato, 51, from his upstate New York home. Such is the measure of his vanishing act that Deodato can only chuckle when an interviewer suggests that some music lovers of his generation might have thought that the arranger’s son - not Deodato - was to headline Mayfair’s Jazz Night Sunday. You will be forgiven if you think Eumir Deodato, the native Brazilian arranger and pianist behind the 1970s instrumental hit, “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” which was the theme for “2001: A Space Odyssey,” disappeared after his arrangement of the Richard Strauss tone poem topped the pop charts.
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