The Oakmont League of Glendale held a fabulous summer party at the beautiful home and garden of Martial and Fernanda Genthon. A native Brazilian, Fernanda had a grand time planning the menu of ...

I spent yesterday writing and listening to Sergio Mendes and the Brasil '66 and '77, as well as other vintage bossa albums. The music is always breezy and melodic and sets a fast work pace. The photo ...

Dropping an alt-rock distortion bomb into the middle of a tasteful bossa nova tune is a great idea. It belongs to Katy & The ...

Blame it on the Beatles. That’s how Brazilian-born musician and composer Orlando Haddad, 61, explains his leap from Beethoven to rock. “I studied classical piano from the age of eight,” says Haddad, a ...

This terrific recording by Eliane Elias salutes the 50th anniversary of bossa nova in a number of explicit ways. For one thing, it contains the three most famous tunes by its most famous composer, ...

Composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, the song The Girl from Ipanema immortalized the Brazilian beauty. Tall and tanned and lovely and walking along the sandy shores of Rio de ...

You've probably heard many stories from musicians over the years about writing songs about the pandemic, but Tiny Desk Contest entrant Nicolle Horbath put a kind of bossa nova twist on what are ...