Released in 1964, the father of Brazilian bossa nova João Gilberto and famous American saxophonist Stan Getz collaborated to ...

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.

One of America's first champions of Brazilian bossa nova was Felix Grant. A jazz disc jockey in Washington D.C., Grant hosted The Album Sound on WMAL. His voice had a soft, sophisticated on-air sound ...

Last year was the 50th anniversary of the release of “Jazz Samba.” This seminal album by Stan Getz (tenor sax) and Charlie Byrd (guitar) had a profound impact on jazz, introducing to America a ...

This is FRESH AIR. And we're listening to some of our favorite interviews from the early days of our national daily broadcasts. In 1988, Terry spoke with Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim. He ...

On Friday, a samba line will snake through the Hamilton Listening Studio, as the nine-member Brazilian jazz group Desafinado plays a Batucada, leading the audience for the first time in almost 20 ...

The Fujitsu Concord Jazz Fest celebration of summery bossa nova, originally skedded as a June concert, finally nestled at Carnegie Hall, with an autumnal tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim. With exotic ...

The setting will be English gothic, but the music will be pure Brazilian samba. “Samba in the Cathedral,” a fundraiser for the Interfaith Hospitality Network of Spokane, starts tonight at 7 at St.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. As temperatures heat up and summer kicks into high gear, UMe and Verve ...

This year’s Malta Jazz Festival is being hailed as the most eclectic to date. Musicians from Brazil, Jamaica, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Africa will perform numbers including American jazz ...