This is a trip into the world of bossa nova. Or the worlds of bossa nova. For the style that made Brazilian music so respected and famous all over the world has some subdivisions that coexist among ...

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.

On “Novas Bossas,” the latest project from singer and composer Milton Nascimento, two legends of Brazilian (and by extension, global) popular music find their long-delayed confluence. The first is the ...

In early 1960 a new Brazilian movie called “Black Orpheus” opened at the Capri Theater on Huntington Avenue. The theater would be torn down two years later, but America’s love affair with the gentle ...

In 1964, "The Girl From Ipanema" put bossa nova on the charts in the U.S. The song was composed by the godfather of the bossa nova, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and features the languid, lush, lovely ...

This is FRESH AIR. And we're listening to some of our favorite interviews from the early days of our national daily broadcasts. In 1988, Terry spoke with Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim. He ...

A “matinee birthday tribute” to Brazilian bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim is set for Feb. 1 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Tickets are sliding scale, $15 to $30, ...

Antonio Carlos Jobim, the founding father of Brazil’s bossa nova music who composed the world-famous song “The Girl From Ipanema,” died Thursday in New York. He was 67. Jobim died of heart failure, a ...

Of all the great pop singers of the pre-rock era, Frank Sinatra is the only one who continues to exert a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Fifty-five years ago, Esquire published “Frank ...