Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beloved bossa nova producer, composer, pianist and song interpreter Sérgio Mendes has died at 83. The legendary Brazilian ...

The Japanese branch of EMI Toshiba has just issued 50 budget-priced CDs as part of its “Jazz 999 Best & More" series, including the tremendous George Shearing Bossa Nova, the late pianist's lovely ...

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 ...

Is there still room for M.Y.M.P.’s tender musings now that Pinoy music buyers have shifted their interest to the Latin rhythm of the bossa nova? This question cropped up when M.Y.M.P.

When Brazilian musicians fused samba with jazz and classical influences in the 1950s and ’60s, he was among the first, and the best. By Clay Risen Carlos Lyra, a Brazilian composer, singer and ...

As temperatures heat up and summer kicks into high gear, UMe and Verve invite you to kick back, relax and enjoy Summer Samba!, an audio and visual feast for the senses celebrating the timeless and ...

Most people thought bossa nova was dead, and most were glad to have simply survived the hucksterized flood of bossa nova dances, bossa nova shoes and sweatshirts, boogie bossa nova, soul bossa nova.

At the bossa nova’s start in the late 1950s, the music was composed largely by male Brazilian sensualists. They sang their love songs at clubs along Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach in a whispered ...

Yesterday Peter put up a big ol’ bossa nova jump-off over at Post No Bills, and today by coincidence I discovered a massive trove of bossa nova album covers. For a while bossa nova was the about the ...

Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean “the latest thing” or “the new beat” or “the new ...