Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astrud Gilberto backstage at New York City's Birdland Jazz Club in 1964. Popsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Images ...

Known as Beco das Garrafas, or “Bottles Alley,” the site earned its name because residents of the surrounding apartment buildings would hurl bottles into the alley in protest when the music became too ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sergio Mendes, the innovative and influential pianist, composer and arranger who was one of Brazil’s earliest contemporary ...

The year was 1956, and two of the founding fathers of bossa nova, Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, had just met at a Rio de Janeiro bar called the Casa Villarino. The friendship that started that day ...

“Holy grail” level vinyl rarities from influential Brazilian musicians celebrated in excellent, unexpected reissues. Once in a great while the stars align in the world of record collecting and very ...

He was the Brazilian music legend who brought bossa nova to a global audience in a career that lasted more than 60 years. In the past few days, tributes have been flooding in for legendary Brazilian ...

When Sergio Mendes reflects on the amazing journey he calls life, from his formative years at the forefront of a bossa nova revolution through his Oscar-nominated work on "Rio" to the recent ...