Chefs, decorators and musicians know the quickest way to perk up the senses is to fuse cultures. Even better is to mix styles that seem to have nothing to do with each other. Several years ago, the ...

Trumpeter and saxophonist Glenn Zottola has been a serious part of the music business for more than four decades, recording thirty albums as a sideman and leader as well as adding Broadway and TV show ...

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.

Following the success of her previous albums Meu Amor and Kiss of Brasil, Bianca Rossini releases Vento do Norte, her latest collection of original bossa nova classics. Brazilian singer-songwriter ...

Audio and visual extravaganza kicks off today with official animated video for bossa nova classic 'The Girl From Ipanema' and unique visualizers for some of the most important songs of the canon.

French group Nouvelle Vague — who are known for their bossa nova-styled covers ofnew wave and punk classics — are featuring Martin Gore (Depeche Mode), Ian McCullough (Echo and the Bunnymen), Barry ...

Blame it on the Beatles. That’s how Brazilian-born musician and composer Orlando Haddad, 61, explains his leap from Beethoven to rock. “I studied classical piano from the age of eight,” says Haddad, a ...

Classic Brazilian bossa nova music has a familiar, slow, graceful pulse. NPR's Felix Contreras of Alt.Latino plays some songs for NPR's Rachel Martin. MARTIN: NPR's Felix Contreras is here to tell us ...

It’s as fresh as a summer breeze rolling in gently off the waves, as young as the sun-worshipers crowding the white-hot beaches of Rio. Yet bossa nova — the serenely seductive music that Brazil gave ...