This is quite a painful disc to listen to. Not because of the music—which is beautiful—but because of the events surrounding it. Recorded in October 1962, it was to be tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec's ...

Audio and visual extravaganza kicks off today with official animated video for bossa nova classic 'The Girl From Ipanema' and unique visualizers for some of the most important songs of the canon.

São Paulo – Quando o mundo parecia olhar apenas para os violões e seus banquinhos, se fartar das harmonias curvilíneas e dos tempos fortes deslocados do ritmo, o Rio de Janeiro paria um cenário que a ...

Que Bossa will perform bossa nova and samba standards like “The Girl From Ipanema” as well as modern “bossafied” songs like Cake’s “Never There” at Picnic in the Park on Wednesday, Sept. 13. Que Bossa ...

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 ...

When Gene de Souza began hosting Café Brasil on community radio station WDNA-FM (88.9), the thrill was much the same as the one he got from playing the beloved music of his home country for American ...

Brazil’s best-known form of music is the samba, the drum-heavy, rhythmically intricate and danceable genre that powers Carnival. But in 1955, when João Gilberto locked himself in the bathroom of his ...

♪ Quem acompanha o remake da novela Vale tudo – atração da Globo no horário das 21h – já viu o fictício pianista Rubens Acioly em ação na também fictícia boate carioca Vanguard Rio. Interpretado pelo ...

♬ Embora tenha sido revelado na voz de Nara Leão (1942 – 1989), cantora associada à bossa nova, o samba “Diz que fui por aí” (Zé Ketti e Hortênsio Rocha, 1964) é música distante do universo sal, céu, ...