One of America's first champions of Brazilian bossa nova was Felix Grant. A jazz disc jockey in Washington D.C., Grant hosted The Album Sound on WMAL. His voice had a soft, sophisticated on-air sound ...

SALISBURY — The Bossa Jazz Trio will soon be bringing its blend of music from Latin America and Spain to The Actors Studio of Newburyport. The trio performs Thursday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the ...

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Sérgio Mendes, the influential Brazillian bossa nova and jazz legend, has died at age 83. A statement shared on his official social media pages said that he “passed away peacefully” on September 5.

I love “jazz samba"—bossa nova albums recorded by American jazz artists in the 1960s. The bossa nova, of course, dates back to Brazil in the late 1950s. Back then, young musicians in Rio de Janeiro ...

Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean “the latest thing” or “the new beat” or “the new ...

With her soulful, cigarette-tinged contralto and emotive “bossa-jazz” stylings, she mesmerized audiences and critics alike. By Alex Williams Leny Andrade, the Brazilian singer who earned an ...

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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 ...