When bossa nova exploded in America and everywhere else in the early 1960s, Jobim was its star. His catchy songs were played everywhere. The “Girl from Ipanema” made Rio’s famous beach famous. But ...

What happens when you integrate sultry samba rhythms with various aspects of European jazz? The Bossa Nova, or “new wave” sound emerges, a style created in part by the late Antonio Carlos Jobim more ...

Bossa Nova legend João Gilberto died at his home in Rio de Janeiro on July 6 at the age of 88. Together with composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, Gilberto pioneered a “new wave” in Brazilian popular music ...

If there’s a pop musician of the last 60 years who deserves a great documentary, it’s Antonio Carlos Jobim. Some might bristle at my description of him as “pop.” In Brazil, where Jobim, one of the ...

On “Novas Bossas,” the latest project from singer and composer Milton Nascimento, two legends of Brazilian (and by extension, global) popular music find their long-delayed confluence. The first is the ...