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 ...
For most people, bossa nova began in 1962, the year tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's album Jazz Samba (Verve, 1962) and 45rpm pull "Desafinado" stormed up the pop albums and singles charts. That fall, ...
Nothing captures the sound, the mood or the languor of summer quite like the bossa nova. Invented along the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s, the quietly swaying Brazilian music became a ...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, died Monday. He was 88. His ...
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