Tenor saxophonists and bossa nova go together like coffee and cream. These two albums from Tower Records' "Exclusive CDs from Blue Note compilation series feature some of the best from both worlds in ...

Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late ...

Stan Getz (tenor sax) with various groups. Recorded 1962-63. Nowadays, when singers from Bray to Boston learn enough Portuguese to have a go at Corcovado or Insensatez, it's hard to remember when ...

In 1988, Terry Gross spoke with Jobim, who wrote "The Girl from Ipanema," one of the songs that started the Bossa nova craze in the United States. Jobim died in 1994. This is FRESH AIR. And we're ...

IT ALL started out so innocently, as summers and holidays can. The heavy expectation of freedom and relief can hide, or at least disguise, more basic realities. And so it was that no one could ever ...

Influential Brazilian musician João Gilberto has died aged 88. The singer and composer was known best as a pioneer of the bossa nova genre, which found international popularity in the 1960s. Reports ...