Bossa Nova and the compositions of Antonio Carlos Jobim have continued to inspire musicians across the globe, including many jazz musicians in the US from the 1960s to the present day. Your support ...

St. Petersburg vocalist Bela Souza blends jazz, Bossa Nova and musical theater influences into performances designed to move ...

Brasil is a country full of music. Samba, which was strongly influenced by African music, originated in Rio de Janeiro about 100 years ago Bossa nova, the focus of this hour, is basically a fusing of ...

In the early 1960s, bossa nova was hugely popular in the US thanks to its reinvention as a social dance and its connections with upper-class culture. What does it take to make a dance take off? In the ...

Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfá’s 1963 bossa nova classic gets a lush, dead-quiet Verve Acoustic Sounds 180-gram vinyl reissue that comes remarkably close to an original pressing.