I was living with my father in Malaysia when he took me to his film club to see Black Orpheus. The 1959 award-winning film, made by French director Marcel Camus, tells the tragic story of an ...

As part of the ABC's multimedia music collaboration, Music Deli is in Bossa Nova mode this week, with a great concert from some of Brazil's musical icons -- the Bossa Nova Hot Club. They're an ...

Bossa nova emerged from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the late 1950s and early '60s. After the 1964 coup d'état, as a military regime took control of Brazil, the positive energy of the bossa nova era ...

To virtually all Americans, the words "bossa nova" are synonymous with Brazilian jazz. More specifically, they immediately trigger memories of bossa nova's greatest American hit, "The Girl From ...

The summer of 1958 was the season of bossa nova. Fifty years ago, a movement of melody, harmony, lyrics, and rhythm sent a fresh wave of sound throughout Brazil. In the years to follow, a small group ...

Classic Brazilian bossa nova music has a familiar, slow, graceful pulse. NPR's Felix Contreras of Alt.Latino plays some songs for NPR's Rachel Martin. MARTIN: NPR's Felix Contreras is here to tell us ...