Melbourne’s own Paris Wells and Finley François have been busy crafting something special. Following the release of their collaborative album Lounge of the Flamingo in August, the pair are now set to ...

This program features modern jazz from Spain and Japan as well as older and newer music from the U. S. Musicians heard on the show include Andrea Motis, Ches Smith, Satoko Fujii, Keith Oxman, Milt ...

It’s bossa nova and samba, but so much more — funky, soulful and esoteric. Listen to these songs chosen by Joyce Moreno, Marcos Valle, Amaro Freitas and more lovers of Brazilian rhythms. Credit ...

Create a backyard retro-oasis with TIDAL’s Summer Bossa Garden Hygge. Think 1960s samba-sounds and sexy bossa nova beats, from artists like Quincy Jones (Desafinado), Astrud Gilberto (with her ...

From June of this year, this is a show that features a varied selection of large jazz ensembles that delve into traditional and contemporary styles and sometimes even travel to the outer reaches of ...

Astrud Gilberto, whose soft and sexy vocal performance on The Girl from Ipanema, the first song she ever recorded, helped make the sway of Brazilian bossa nova a hit sound in the 1960s, has died aged ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian vocalist who passed away aged 83 this week, will be best remembered for taking Brazilian bossa nova to US shores with her vocals on 1964 classic The Girl From Ipanema.

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 ...

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, the voice of Bossa Nova whose soft and dreamy version of The Girl from Ipanema was an international success in the 1960s, has died at the age of 83, her family said.

Astrud Gilberto didn’t set out to be an ambassador of bossa nova, the laid-back Brazilian musical genre with rhythms recognizable to music lovers around the world. According to Gilberto, who died on ...

Family friend and musician Paul Ricci confirmed the news. The guitarist said Gilberto’s son Marcelo permitted him to announce the death. The songstress, with the recognizable soft voice, passed away ...