“Holy grail” level vinyl rarities from influential Brazilian musicians celebrated in excellent, unexpected reissues. Once in a great while the stars align in the world of record collecting and very ...

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Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in the late 1960s, Luciana Souza grew up in a family of bossa nova innovators, maturing into an artist with strong roots in jazz, and a sophisticated lineage in world music.

Beloved bossa nova producer, composer, pianist and song interpreter Sérgio Mendes has died at 83. The legendary Brazilian superstar whose career spanned more than three dozen albums released across ...

Trey Wright is a jazz guitarist, composer, and recording artist based in Roswell, Ga. Trey spent his formative years as a musician in Athens performing with the jazz quartet Squat; a six-time winner ...

Bossa nova emerged from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the late 1950s and early '60s. After the 1964 coup d'état, as a military regime took control of Brazil, the positive energy of the bossa nova era ...

Drummer Tom Cohen’s lifelong love affair with bossa nova music culminates with the October 10 release of Embraceable Brazil on Versa Records. More than a decade in the making, Cohen’s sixth album ...

Mendes: Paul McCartney enjoyed his uptempo version of the Beatles standard The Fool on the Hill - Jim McCrary/Redferns Sérgio Mendes, who has died in Los Angeles aged 83, created a string of worldwide ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, died Monday. He was 88.