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 ...

Composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, the song The Girl from Ipanema immortalized the Brazilian beauty. Tall and tanned and lovely and walking along the sandy shores of Rio de ...

Astrud Gilberto didn’t set out to be an ambassador of bossa nova, the laid-back Brazilian musical genre with rhythms recognizable to music lovers around the world. According to Gilberto, who died on ...

One afternoon in July 1958, Brazilian guitarist and singer João Gilberto entered a studio and quickly recorded “Chega de Saudade,” an early composition by Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

This new two-disc set - whose full title is João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and the Stylists of Bossa Nova Sing - celebrates the feathery, tender sounds of Bossa Nova, the Brazilian spin on samba ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The British Invasion gets all the ink, but in 1964, as The Beatles were upending pop culture, a ...