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 ...

Not to sound like a broken record, but I'll say it again: the variety of creative expression in what is inadequately labeled ...

Few Americans approached bossa nova with the commitment and understanding of Charlie Byrd. His classically influenced, unamplified style was perfectly suited to the Brazilian music that quickly became ...

“Holy grail” level vinyl rarities from influential Brazilian musicians celebrated in excellent, unexpected reissues. Once in a great while the stars align in the world of record collecting and very ...

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A prolific pianist, composer and arranger who began recording in the 1950s, he was a pioneer of bossa nova but didn’t confine himself to any genre. By Jon Pareles João Donato, a Brazilian composer, ...

This Friday (11/19), Connecticut indie rockers Ovlov will return with their new album Buds. It’s their first in three years, and the band’s stature has only risen in the time since their last LP.

The Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes, who brought bossa nova to an international audience in the 1960s with his band Brasil ’66, has died aged 83 as a result of health challenges related to long-term ...

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 ...