After three successful concerts in Rio de Janeiro and Houston in 2016, the group will be mesmerizing the Houston audience with the sensual rhythms of bossa nova played in the upbeat, energizing style ...

On Friday, a samba line will snake through the Hamilton Listening Studio, as the nine-member Brazilian jazz group Desafinado plays a Batucada, leading the audience for the first time in almost 20 ...

One of the leading proponents of bossa nova and samba in the jazz world, New York-based chromatic harmonica virtuoso Hendrik Meurkens continues his love affair with Brazilian music with the big band ...

To fully appreciate the rich place that Brazilian jazz holds today among the world's music forms, you have to go back to its roots in the late 1950s and the 1960s. So that's what a top-notch quintet ...

With her soulful, cigarette-tinged contralto and emotive “bossa-jazz” stylings, she mesmerized audiences and critics alike. By Alex Williams Leny Andrade, the Brazilian singer who earned an ...

There is more to Brazilian music than bossa nova and samba. For a crash course on those deeper and wider recent pop traditions, pull up a seat and listen to guitarist Vinicius Gomes. “Bossa nova is ...

The CJRO is set to deliver an electrifying month-long celebration of Brazilian jazz, highlighting some of the finest jazz artists in the region. Led by CJRO artistic director Drew Zaremba, these ...

Os Novos Baianos brought their samba rock to American soil for the first time to the joy of the thousands of Brazilian and Brazilian-American fans who’ve made a life here. But they didn’t just draw a ...

Leny Andrade, a Brazilian singer who helped craft a new genre by fusing the country’s mellow bossa nova sound with jazz influences, including scat improvisations that drew comparisons to Ella ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Alabama-based Brazilian cover band Nossa Samba is celebrating big news as they’re making waves far beyond Huntsville. Nossa Samba has just landed on the 2025 Grammy ballot!

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Leny Andrade, known as the first lady of Brazilian jazz, has died in Rio de Janeiro. Andrade was a percussive, samba-driven improviser, an interpreter as worldly-wise as Édith Piaf and a consummate ...