Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Jobim was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his ...

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 ...

One afternoon in July 1958, Brazilian guitarist and singer João Gilberto entered a studio and quickly recorded “Chega de Saudade,” an early composition by Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

This is a trip into the world of bossa nova. Or the worlds of bossa nova. For the style that made Brazilian music so respected and famous all over the world has some subdivisions that coexist among ...

Antonio Carlos Jobim, the founding father of Brazil’s bossa nova music who composed the world-famous song “The Girl From Ipanema,” died Thursday in New York. He was 67. Jobim died of heart failure, a ...

In early 1960 a new Brazilian movie called “Black Orpheus” opened at the Capri Theater on Huntington Avenue. The theater would be torn down two years later, but America’s love affair with the gentle ...

61 Years of Bossa Nova: The Music of Tom Jobim will be a night of music while empowering women and diversity in Houston. In addition to her original music, Paula Maya with guest Beth Galiger will ...