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 ...

Pianist and composer Antonio Carlos Jobim played a vital role in popularizing Brazilian music in this country and igniting the bossa-nova craze specifically. Thanks to his Grammy Award-winning 1964 ...

This is a trip into the world of bossa nova. Or the worlds of bossa nova. For the style that made Brazilian music so respected and famous all over the world has some subdivisions that coexist among ...

A “matinee birthday tribute” to Brazilian bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim is set for Feb. 1 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Tickets are sliding scale, $15 to $30, ...

I was at the Hollywood Bowl last Saturday night for the big “An Olympic Carnival – Sergio Mendes & 50 Years of Brasil ’66” show, which opened with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra playing Brazilian ...

If there’s a pop musician of the last 60 years who deserves a great documentary, it’s Antonio Carlos Jobim. Some might bristle at my description of him as “pop.” In Brazil, where Jobim, one of the ...

One of my all-time favorite albums and desert island picks is Elis and Tom (Phillips, 1974), featuring duets by the legendary Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim and Elis Regina, an iconic Brazilian singer ...

In early 1960 a new Brazilian movie called “Black Orpheus” opened at the Capri Theater on Huntington Avenue. The theater would be torn down two years later, but America’s love affair with the gentle ...

In 1988, Terry Gross spoke with Jobim, who wrote "The Girl from Ipanema," one of the songs that started the Bossa nova craze in the United States. Jobim died in 1994. This is FRESH AIR. And we're ...

One legend pays tribute to another with “The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim,” an all-music homage to the most identifiable Brazilian songwriter of the 20th century, compiled by Cinema Novo ...

Yet we’re long past the point where pop can’t include all that. Just consider Steely Dan’s “Aja,” an album of luminous jazz modalities that also happens to be the purest pop. Jobim, though he wrote in ...