RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — "Tall and tan and young and lovely..." You've heard of her. The Girl From Ipanema. You might have come across the bossa nova classic while on hold on the phone, during a long ...

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

Bossa nova was jazz's final moment in the hit parade sunshine before The Beatles swept across the world in the mid-1960s and changed everything. A blend of chilled- out Brazilian samba and cool jazz ...

In the late 1950s on the beaches of Rio, an eclectic group of musicians came together to create the distinctive and sensual music known as Bossa Nova. Classic tracks include 'The Girl from Ipanema', ...

In March, the Brazilian style of music known as bossa nova made an unexpected appearance on one of the year’s biggest hip-hop albums: Juice WRLD‘s Death Race for Love. Thank Tommy Brown. During a ...

Startling Bahian drum brigades and primitive echoes from the Amazon may be the most recent Brazilian sounds to have an international impact, but here in the cradle of bossa nova Brazilians themselves ...

When pianist Herbie Hancock released The New Standard (Verve, 1996)—an album of radically reworked pop tunes by artists ranging from Peter Gabriel to Prince—it wasn't exactly revolutionary, but it was ...

Few modern singers have changed the world of music as much as Joao Gilberto. In 1950s Brazil, his quiet phrasing drew on the sophistication of jazz and gave voice to the songs of emerging composer ...

Get your chill on with our guide to the rhythms and grooves behind this perennial Brazilian style When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Blood pressure rose. Pulses quickened. Temperatures warmed up. In three hospice rooms at Broward General Medical Center, a nurse assistant scribbled down notes on a clipboard as a group of Brazilian ...