Fifty years ago, a cadre of musicians and poets in Brazil launched one of the quietest revolutions ever heard: the whispered sounds of bossa nova. Over the weekend, the heirs of Brazil’s pre-eminent ...

Known as Beco das Garrafas, or “Bottles Alley,” the site earned its name because residents of the surrounding apartment buildings would hurl bottles into the alley in protest when the music became too ...

To virtually all Americans, the words "bossa nova" are synonymous with Brazilian jazz. More specifically, they immediately trigger memories of bossa nova's greatest American hit, "The Girl From ...

Bossa nova is not just elevator music or the rhythm button on a home organ. It's poetic, political – and a high-water mark in Brazilian culture The Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso recalls a concert at ...

This new two-disc set - whose full title is João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and the Stylists of Bossa Nova Sing - celebrates the feathery, tender sounds of Bossa Nova, the Brazilian spin on samba ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Joao Gilberto, a ...

Condé Nast Traveler editorial staff were not involved with the creation of this content. On a damp Swedish Sunday afternoon near the end of June 1958, a boyishly shy 17-year-old jogged onto the world ...

Bossa nova, like the Great American Songbook, defined an era while simultaneously providing a style and repertoire for future development. Although many compositions by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao ...

Reporting from Rio De Janeiro — João Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Joao Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound ...