Pianist and composer Antonio Carlos Jobim played a vital role in popularizing Brazilian music in this country and igniting the bossa-nova craze specifically. Thanks to his Grammy Award-winning 1964 ...

Composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, the song The Girl from Ipanema immortalized the Brazilian beauty. Tall and tanned and lovely and walking along the sandy shores of Rio de ...

Astrud Gilberto didn’t set out to be an ambassador of bossa nova, the laid-back Brazilian musical genre with rhythms recognizable to music lovers around the world. According to Gilberto, who died on ...

This new two-disc set - whose full title is João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and the Stylists of Bossa Nova Sing - celebrates the feathery, tender sounds of Bossa Nova, the Brazilian spin on samba ...

One afternoon in July 1958, Brazilian guitarist and singer João Gilberto entered a studio and quickly recorded “Chega de Saudade,” an early composition by Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Bossa nova was jazz's final moment in the hit parade sunshine before The Beatles swept across the world in the mid-1960s and changed everything. A blend of chilled- out Brazilian samba and cool jazz ...

Bossa Nova, Brazil's unique mix of jazz and samba, celebrates 50 years this month with shows by one of the genre's pioneers, Joao Gilberto, who brought "The Girl from Ipanema" to the world. The three ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The British Invasion gets all the ink, but in 1964, as The Beatles were upending pop culture, a ...

The British Invasion gets all the ink, but in 1964, as the Beatles were upending pop culture, a record by a jazz hit-maker and a Brazilian bossa nova innovator stormed the Grammy Awards and the ...