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, ...

Beloved bossa nova producer, composer, pianist and song interpreter Sérgio Mendes has died at 83. The legendary Brazilian superstar whose career spanned more than three dozen albums released across ...

Dreamer; Meditation; Corcovado; Wave; No More Blues. After listening to Bossa Nova as a young girl, Gemma developed such a true love for the genre. One of the first songs she ever learnt was Dindi.

Other recording companies have come up with bossa nova albums, giving breaks to other unknown singers so as to gain a slice of the market. But Sitti remains hard to ignore. She started the genre and ...

In 1964, "The Girl From Ipanema" put bossa nova on the charts in the U.S. The song was composed by the godfather of the bossa nova, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and features the languid, lush, lovely ...

I thought Sitti singing her bossa nova tunes was an oddity. I said it was a fad that couldn’t last. I was wrong. But then no one could have thought that an old form of Latin music could give the Pinoy ...

Musical dexterity is John Pizzarelli’s forte. How else can you define a major strength of this jazz guitarist whose career dates back to 1980 and includes a string of albums that have found him paying ...

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 ...

Bebel Gilberto is walking her dog – a Shih Tzu who looks like it got a bowl cut – around New York City’s West Village, and smoking a joint. Despite her pedigree (her father is multiple Grammy-winning, ...