Audio will be available later today. The sounds of Brazil kick off the second week of Performance Today's popular ongoing series From the Village to the Concert Hall, an exploration of the connections ...

One afternoon in July 1958, Brazilian guitarist and singer João Gilberto entered a studio and quickly recorded “Chega de Saudade,” an early composition by Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Classic Brazilian bossa nova music has a familiar, slow, graceful pulse. NPR's Felix Contreras of Alt.Latino plays some songs for NPR's Rachel Martin. MARTIN: NPR's Felix Contreras is here to tell us ...

Milton Nascimento & the Jobim Trio With special guest Edmar Castaneda. Where: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark. When: 5 p.m. Sunday. How much: $60-$18 Call (888) 466-5722 or ...

Audio and visual extravaganza kicks off today with official animated video for bossa nova classic 'The Girl From Ipanema' and unique visualizers for some of the most important songs of the canon.

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 ...

João Gilberto, the Brazilian singer and composer best known as a pioneer of the bossa nova style of music, died Saturday in Rio de Janerio. He was 88. Numerous media outlets reported Gilberto’s death, ...

Astrud Gilberto, who was just 22 years old when her lovely, laid-back and sultry vocals on the jazzy bossa nova “The Girl from Ipanema” made the song a massive global hit and one of the most ...

Fusing post-punk’s brooding atmospherics with the lilting sway of bossa nova doesn’t sound like it should work, conceptually. The sounds of Joy Division, the Cure and other bands of the era seem too ...

(CBS) - Mike Tyson, boxer, actor, Renaissance man. The former heavyweight champion took a trip south of the border to Brazil, where he appeared on a local television show. Not content with a simple ...

Blame it on the Beatles. That’s how Brazilian-born musician and composer Orlando Haddad, 61, explains his leap from Beethoven to rock. “I studied classical piano from the age of eight,” says Haddad, a ...