Francisco Tenório Júnior

Francisco Tenório Júnior was a Brazilian musician who, despite only recording one disc under his own name, was considered one of the best pianists of his generation. He went missing in mysterious circumstances in Argentina at the time of the Dirty War.

While on tour in Argentina with Toquinho and Vinícius de Moraes in March 1976, Tenório Júnior mentioned he was going out to buy cigarettes, and is thought to have been rounded up and thrown in jail,or murdered. In 1979, Elis Regina mentioned in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo that he had been seen in jail in La Plata.^[1]

Discography

As leader

• Embalo (1964)

As accompanist

• ...E Samba Novo (1963), accompanying Edison Machado
• O LP (1964), with Os Cobras
• Vagamente (1964), accompanying Wanda Sá
• Doris Monteiro (1964), accompanying Doris Monteiro
• India (1973), accompanying Gal Costa
• Beto Guedes - Danilo Caymmi - Novelli - Toninho Horta (1973), accompanying the eponymous musicians
• Missa Breve (1973), accompanying Edu Lobo
• Egberto Gismonti (1973), accompanying Egberto Gismonti
• Academia de Danças (1974), accompanying Egberto Gismonti
• Nós (1974), accompanying Johnny Alf
• Bossa Nova nos "States" (1962), accompanying Juarez Araújo
• A Arte Maior de Leny Andrade (1964), accompanying Leny Andrade
• Minas (1975), accompanying Milton Nascimento
• Nana Caymmi (1975), accompanying Nana Caymmi
• Samba Nova Concepção (1964), (Various Artists)
• Desenhos (1966), accompanying Victor Assis Brasil

References

1. Inforum