I was at the Hollywood Bowl last Saturday night for the big “An Olympic Carnival – Sergio Mendes & 50 Years of Brasil ’66” show, which opened with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra playing Brazilian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Really, is there anyone who does not like Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom)? Antonio Adolfo, the pianist, arranger, and producer behind this wonderful recording, seems to have lived in a parallel universe to ...

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 ...

In early 1960 a new Brazilian movie called “Black Orpheus” opened at the Capri Theater on Huntington Avenue. The theater would be torn down two years later, but America’s love affair with the gentle ...

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 ...

Antonio Carlos Jobim once asked Milton Nascimento to record a collection of his songs, a project that would have brought together Brazil's most revered composer and one of its best-known singers.

Jobim was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists internationally since the early 1960s. After enchanting ...