One of America's first champions of Brazilian bossa nova was Felix Grant. A jazz disc jockey in Washington D.C., Grant hosted The Album Sound on WMAL. His voice had a soft, sophisticated on-air sound ...

The Japanese branch of EMI Toshiba has just issued 50 budget-priced CDs as part of its “Jazz 999 Best & More" series, including the tremendous George Shearing Bossa Nova, the late pianist's lovely ...

When Brazilian musicians fused samba with jazz and classical influences in the 1950s and ’60s, he was among the first, and the best. By Clay Risen See more of our coverage in your search ...

Sergio Mendes, a Brazilian pianist, composer and arranger whose group Brasil ’66 offered a tropical-flavored countermelody to the hard edge of rock-and-roll in the late 1960s and who had a late-career ...

BRASILIA, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes, who brought bossa nova to international audiences in the 1960s, died on Friday at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, his family said. In a ...