Born on the beaches of Rio in the late 1950s, bossa nova fused samba rhythms with jazz sophistication to create a smooth, timeless sound. Pioneers like João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim ...

Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late ...

The always expressive vocalist Mafalda Minnozzi has released a new album! Aptly titled Sensorial - Portraits in Bossa & Jazz, this dynamic new album showcases the charismatic Italian singer at her ...

I love “jazz samba"—bossa nova albums recorded by American jazz artists in the 1960s. The bossa nova, of course, dates back to Brazil in the late 1950s. Back then, young musicians in Rio de Janeiro ...

“Holy grail” level vinyl rarities from influential Brazilian musicians celebrated in excellent, unexpected reissues. Once in a great while the stars align in the world of record collecting and very ...

With her soulful, cigarette-tinged contralto and emotive “bossa-jazz” stylings, she mesmerized audiences and critics alike. By Alex Williams Leny Andrade, the Brazilian singer who earned an ...

A newly reissued live album, “Getz Au Go Go,” captures Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto at the height of the 1960s bossa nova craze, a Brazilian–American fusion that reshaped jazz and global pop. Rooted ...

“Bossa Brasilia” is two pages long and is inspired by the bossa nova from Brazil, which is a two measure rhythmic pattern in 4/4 time that doesn’t actually occur in this piece. The flavor and feeling ...

Ella & The Bossa Beat are excited to be back again at the Arts Garage, and will be performing selections from their highly anticipated 4th album "Amare" from Schema Records- (Milano, Italy). Ella ...

The Wayne State College jazz ensembles and Mariachi Negro y Oro will perform Friday, April 24, on campus. The 7:30 p.m.

SALISBURY — The Bossa Jazz Trio will soon be bringing its blend of music from Latin America and Spain to The Actors Studio of Newburyport. The trio performs Thursday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the ...

In March, the Brazilian style of music known as bossa nova made an unexpected appearance on one of the year’s biggest hip-hop albums: Juice WRLD‘s Death Race for Love. Thank Tommy Brown. During a ...