If there were to be a "Great Americas Songbook," surely the music of João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim would be at the top of the list. KPAC's James Baker listens back in this Momentos Musicales ...

Bossa Nova, Brazil's unique mix of jazz and samba, celebrates 50 years this month with shows by one of the genre's pioneers, Joao Gilberto, who brought "The Girl from Ipanema" to the world. The three ...

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 ...

Gardeners looking for the perfect hanging-basket plant this spring and summer will be thrilled with a new begonia series with parentage that goes back to the Bolivian Andes Mountains where the first ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian bossa nova impresario and pianist who helped popularize the genre in the ‘60s and toured with Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra, has died. The recording artist died ...

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He was 88 years old. LONDON -- Joao Gilberto, one of the pioneers of Bossa Nova, the Brazilian musical genre characterized by a subtle mix of Samba and Jazz, died in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, ...

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 ...

Singer Monica Vasconcelos tells the musical and political story of bossa nova, the first modern music of Brazil. Forget its low key supper club reputation: bossa nova was tied to political revolution ...

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 ...

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 ...