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Eydie Gorme, who died on Saturday at the age of 84 in Las Vegas after a long illness, will be remembered musically for much more than her best-selling 1963 dance single “Blame It on the Bossa Nova.” ...
Guitarist Sakai opts for a different take on a well-worn musical genre on his recently released album, Gradation—Bossa Nova No Kaze. Instead of offering a familiar take on Brazilian jazz, Sakai ...
Antonio Carlos Jobim is most closely associated with bossa nova, the gorgeously melodic, harmonically rich, jazz-tinged music that burst onto the international scene from Brazil in the late ‘50s and ...
Buddy Deppenschmidt, a jazz drummer who learned the rhythms of Brazilian music on a State Department tour, then appeared on a best-selling 1962 album, “Jazz Samba,” which helped launch a worldwide ...
Celebrate the golden age of West Coast cool and Brazilian bossa nova with three of St. Louis’s brightest stars: trumpeter and vocalist Dawn Weber, bassist-singer Janet Evra, and pianist-arranger Kara ...
Astrud Gilberto died at the age of 83, according to the Associated Press. The story of her career as a singer is one of the most fascinating tales, if not the most unexpected. She was married then to ...
Gilberto, who was a singer and composer, is considered one of the fathers of the Bossa Nova genre. The Portuguese word saudade [pronounced sau-DAH-jee in Brazilian Portuguese] has no translation in ...
On the lookout for something new to put into your music rotation? For your listening pleasure, here are four albums to check out: Astrud Gilberto — 'The Astrud Gilberto Album' If you know "The Girl ...