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 ...

It has been said that Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim was the George Gershwin of Brazil—and there is a solid ring of truth in that, for both contributed large bodies of songs to the jazz ...

Canadian guitarist and vocalist Les Sabler is accustomed to playing the lighter side of jazz as an established and prominent Smooth jazz artist with a particular fancy for the bossa nova. On a very ...

Frank Sinatra was well into his Rat Pack era, the reigning American embodiment of masculine suavity and aplomb, when he teamed up with a maestro of Brazilian music to make one of the most exquisitely ...

Co-directors Nelson Pereira Dos Santos and Dora Jobim create a lively musical memorial to Brazil’s ambassador of bossa nova. By Stephen Dalton Cannes Musica Segundo Tom Jobim Still - P 2012 This ...

A visitor enters Spacebomb Studios through what seems like a dressing room in the Rosewood Clothing Company on South Robinson Street. Sunlight comes through a rectangular cutaway in the wall, filtered ...

If you’ve heard any Brazilian music in the past few years, it’s a fair bet that you’ve experienced the work of Jacques Morelenbaum, as either a cellist, an arranger-orchestrator or a producer. A ...

When bossa nova exploded in America and everywhere else in the early 1960s, Jobim was its star. His catchy songs were played everywhere. The “Girl from Ipanema” made Rio’s famous beach famous. But ...

The family of the late legendary Brazilian bossa nova guitarist Antonio Carlos Jobim has filed a breach of contract and royalties lawsuit alleging that the rights to many of his famous songs have… By ...

The same song, done by the same two, in almost the same manner. But what makes this truly special is that it appears to be the actual recording session and the exact take that later went on the record ...