On this episode of 'Exposition', we speak with Brazilian vocalist Ana Catharina, who is the featured vocalist/performer at ...

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

French bossa nova collective Nouvelle Vague came to Notts last week to bring sumptuous spectacle and sophistication to ...

Elvis Presley‘s “Bossa Nova Baby” was originally by a group that performed one of the most famous tunes of the 1950s. A songwriter explained how the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll rescued the song from ...

One musical commonality singer Betsy Baer shares with guitarist Brent “B.G.” McPike shouldn’t come as a surprise. Both have a fondness for Beatles music, as well as jazz and bossa nova. Baer has sung ...

Eliane Elias plays City Winery on April 16. When bossa nova first swept the world in 1964, Eliane Elias was four years old in a musically inclined family in Sao Paolo, the perfect place for the music ...

BRASILIA, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes, who brought bossa nova to international audiences in the 1960s, died on Friday at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, his family said. In a ...

The smooth sounds of Brazil are set to sweep through the West End Cultural Centre later this month as the Winnipeg Jazz ...

Dave Pike is little known today but back in the early 1960s, he was a hip up-and-coming vibraphonist with enormous promise. He wasn't quite Gary Burton or Bobby Hutcherson, but he had a strong ...

The bossa nova wave was one of the first significant impacts on jazz since Miles Davis, Claude Thornhill and Gil Evans restored balance between the ensemble and the soloist in the late 1940s. As ...