Born on the beaches of Rio in the late 1950s, bossa nova fused samba rhythms with jazz sophistication to create a smooth, timeless sound. Pioneers like João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim ...

Five decades ago the first recording featuring the bossa nova beat created by guitarist João Gilberto was released in Brazil. The record wasn’t by an artist who’s now commonly associated with the ...

A newly reissued live album, “Getz Au Go Go,” captures Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto at the height of the 1960s bossa nova craze, a Brazilian–American fusion that reshaped jazz and global pop. Rooted ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, died Monday. He was 88. His ...

Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean “the latest thing” or “the new beat” or “the new ...