Music brought them to each other and it is also what keeps them together. That’s why it is not surprising that they also thrive on making beautiful music together. Since French singer ...

Long ReadNever before has a musical style been so closely associated with a single surname. In the late 1950s, the Brazilian musician João Gilberto invented bossa nova. Its worldwide influence was as ...

The best jazz bargain in town--John Pisano’s guitar jams at Spazio in Sherman Oaks--was especially rewarding Tuesday night. The ever-energetic guitarist, his versatility well-established over the ...

Bossa nova, like the Great American Songbook, defined an era while simultaneously providing a style and repertoire for future development. Although many compositions by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao ...

Brazil’s best-known form of music is the samba, the drum-heavy, rhythmically intricate and danceable genre that powers Carnival. But in 1955, when João Gilberto locked himself in the bathroom of his ...