"They Shot the Piano Player"

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11242654/?ref_=hm_rvi_tt_i_1

This is new on Netflix. An animated  fictional docudrama about the 'Disappearance' of a Brazilian Samba Jazz pianist named Francisco Tenorio Jr. in Buenos Aires in 1976.

The story is about a fictional writer for the New Yorker, who is assigned to write an article in 2010 about the history of the Bossa Nova, and stumbles on a Brazilian samba-jazz pianist in his listening research, who only made one album under his own name, but played piano on many classic samba/bossa nova sessions. The writer, voiced by Jeff Goldblum digs the pianist, but is upset to find that the pianist stopped recording completely in 1976, and there is nothing on the pianist after 1976. So then the film becomes a mystery about what happened to the real life pianist Francisco Tenorio Jr. in 1976. The writer goes to Brazil for his research, and through a friend, gets in touch with all the major Bossa Nova musicians and vocalists still around in 2010, such as Nasciamento, etc.. and inquires about Tenorio. He even talks with Bud Shank, as part of his research on early bossa nova, and Ella Fitzgerald is also shown singing with the missing pianist in an early scene. Bill Evans even appears playing "Yesterday I Heard the Rain" in a Brazilian jazz club, and hangs out with Tenorio afterwards.

By this time, the writer's editor convinces him to write a book about Tenorio, and the rest of the film centers on the mystery of his disappearance.  here's something from his first album, msde when he was only 23: