Using rhythms from Joao Gilberto's guitar playing, we try to imitate his playing with our right hand, while singing or clapping the subdivisions. Kevin O'Leary on EU willing to go zero-for-zero on ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - If fashion runways and movies are indicators of national trends, Brazil is undergoing a resurgence of nostalgia for the 1950s and early 1960s, when bossa nova jazz took the world by ...

Get your chill on with our guide to the rhythms and grooves behind this perennial Brazilian style When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

“Bossa Brasilia” is two pages long and is inspired by the bossa nova from Brazil, which is a two measure rhythmic pattern in 4/4 time that doesn’t actually occur in this piece. The flavor and feeling ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Think you don't do bossa nova? You may well not realise it. The bossa nova rhythm - a "cool sensibility" arising from a hybrid of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — 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. His ...