In the early 1960s, before the Beatles changed music forever, Charlie Byrd was having a moment in the sun as the leading edge of bossa nova in the United States. For the rest of his life, the ...
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 ...
For most people, bossa nova began in 1962, the year tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's album Jazz Samba (Verve, 1962) and 45rpm pull "Desafinado" stormed up the pop albums and singles charts. That fall, ...
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