As a concept, “In Love With the Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim” sounded like an unforgettable evening -- a “one-act musical” that included nearly 20 tunes by the Brazilian who was one of the premier ...

The Fujitsu Concord Jazz Fest celebration of summery bossa nova, originally skedded as a June concert, finally nestled at Carnegie Hall, with an autumnal tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim. With exotic ...

As far as I can tell, the one and only time an Antônio Carlos Jobim song was heard on Broadway was in Twyla Tharp’s “Come Fly Away.” The song was “Wave,” which, as I write this, makes me want to be on ...

Calvaire’s arrangement of one of Jobim’s most famous songs, “The Girl From Ipanema,” was inspired by a trip he made to Cuba last year, while Sánchez says in the liner notes that one of the reasons he ...

Yet we’re long past the point where pop can’t include all that. Just consider Steely Dan’s “Aja,” an album of luminous jazz modalities that also happens to be the purest pop. Jobim, though he wrote in ...

Ceu e Mar; Vai Ficar Bom; There Will Never Be Another You; Choro Bandido; So Danco Samba; Curare; Dom de Iludir; Bim-Bom; I Concentrate on You; Aguas de Marco; Sublime Tortura; These Foolish Things; ...

Pianist, composer, educator and arranger extraordinaire, Antonio Adolfo has been at the forefront of the samba and bossa nova genre for decades. A proponent of the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, ...

This is FRESH AIR. And we're listening to some of our favorite interviews from the early days of our national daily broadcasts. In 1988, Terry spoke with Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim. He ...

A digital marriage: Blondie and The Doors; Reimagining the music of Brian Eno; Mystic Chords of Memory meet Nobody; Ethereal electronica from Shrift; Bossa Nova legend Antonio Carlos Jobim; Cajun ...

One of the founders of Bossa Nova cool: Jobim (The original image is no longer available, please contact KCRW if you need access to the original image.) It’s been said poetry is that which is lost in ...