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In the early 60s, Brazil initiated a quiet musical revolution by exporting the silky sound of bossa nova to the rest of the world.
Charlie Byrd was sent on a diplomatic tour of South America, but what he imported back to America was more important: ‘Jazz Samba’.
Antonio Carlos Jobim achieved worldwide superstar fame thanks to his key piece 'The Girl from Ipanema’, and while that luscious bossa nova is an all-time standard, it doesn’t tell his tale because...
Bossa Nova was the thing as the 60s got underway and Stan Getz's 'Big Band Bossa Nova' is a superb example of the "new wave".
A pioneer of the bossa nova genre, João Gilberto blended traditional samba music and with modern jazz in the late '50s.
The show was professionally recorded with a view to possible commercial release but, after those plans were forgotten, the tape sat in the vaults for 58 years.
Renowned jazz guitarist-singer John Pizzarelli will mark the anniversary of a landmark collaboration with the 28 July 2017 release of Sinatra & Jobim @ 50.
Due out on 7 April 2017, a 50th-anniversary edition of Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s bosaa nova classic includes a previously unreleased outtake.
We explore the relationship between Brazilian music & jazz, to find out how the 1960s was such a pivotal moment in the history of the rhythms of Brazil.
