One of America's first champions of Brazilian bossa nova was Felix Grant. A jazz disc jockey in Washington D.C., Grant hosted The Album Sound on WMAL. His voice had a soft, sophisticated on-air sound ...

Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late ...

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in the late 1960s, Luciana Souza grew up in a family of bossa nova innovators, maturing into an artist with strong roots in jazz, and a sophisticated lineage in world music.

Not to sound like a broken record, but I'll say it again: the variety of creative expression in what is inadequately labeled ...

He was the Brazilian music legend who brought bossa nova to a global audience in a career that lasted more than 60 years. In the past few days, tributes have been flooding in for legendary Brazilian ...

When Sergio Mendes reflects on the amazing journey he calls life, from his formative years at the forefront of a bossa nova revolution through his Oscar-nominated work on "Rio" to the recent ...

Moving to São Paulo, Brazil, in the 1950s, Argentine-born saxophonist and flautist Hector Costita was quickly drawn to the ...

Sérgio Mendes, a Brazilian music powerhouse and bossa nova pioneer has died in his hometown of Los Angeles, his family said in a statement Friday. He was 83. Mendes, who’s known across the globe for ...