Brazilian music and jazz intermingle with other touches to produce Mauricio de Souza's Different Directions. There are a lot of different exposés, particularly of Brazilian rhythmic styles interpreted ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Bossa Nova, Jon Lusk charts its rise, from Rio's beaches to a cultural force that shaped politics and fashion If there's one style of music that people everywhere ...

When you think of Brazil, you may think of it as the South American birthplace of music genres like the samba or bossa nova. But for the past few years, Brazil has become one of the meccas of ...

So that morning in Mr Oliveira's office, he evidently found a cockroach waiting inside the top drawer of his desk. Something about this vision of vermin clicked inside the company man, and he decided ...

Before bossa nova and samba, Brazilian music was choro. Born in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro, choro started when polkas and waltzes mixed with Afro-Brazilian rhythms. Beginning in the early part of ...

The Brazilian musician who made bossa nova popular around the world dies peacefully, surrounded by his wife and children BRAZIL, South America – Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes, who brought bossa ...

BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes, who brought bossa nova to international audiences in the 1960s, died on Friday at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, his family said. In a statement ...