This is quite a painful disc to listen to. Not because of the music—which is beautiful—but because of the events surrounding it. Recorded in October 1962, it was to be tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec's ...

Marcos Kostenbader Valle (born in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian singer, instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer. He has produced works in many musical styles, including bossa nova, samba, and ...

An exemplary account of how Brazilian music found its keenest popular focus in the 1960s, as a chic, modernistic jazz-inflected pop form of remarkable stylistic integrity. We get 34 tracks and ...

It’s an opening lyric so universal, tucked in a groove so essential, that the song seems to glow as it beams from the speakers. My life, my life, my life, my life in the sunshine Everybody loves the ...

Most people thought bossa nova was dead, and most were glad to have simply survived the hucksterized flood of bossa nova dances, bossa nova shoes and sweatshirts, boogie bossa nova, soul bossa nova.

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