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Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba [nb 1] developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.
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- Girl from Ipanema
- The Birth of Bossa Nova
- Bossa Nova Comes to America
- The Bossa Nova Explosion
- The Importance of Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Bossa Nova in The 21st Century
- The Enduring Appeal of Bossa Nova
The song that lit the touch-paper for the bossa nova explosion in the US and the rest of the world was called “The Girl From Ipanema,” sung by Astrud Gilbertoin a wispy but beguiling girlish voice, and which reached No.5 in the US pop singles chart in the summer of 1964. The song transformed Astrud into an international star, even though it wasn’t ...
Bossa nova’s story really began in 1956. One of its key architects was Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim (1927-1994), a classically-trained Rio De Janeiro-born pianist who also played the guitar, sang, and wrote songs. He had risen to fame in Brazil as the composer of music for a 1956 play called Musicas De Orfeu Da Conceição, written by the Rio-born poet...
Aided by producer Creed Taylor, Getz and Byrd were recorded in All Souls Unitarian Church, in Washington, DC, and the results were released as Jazz Samba on Verve Records in April 1962. Its success (it spent 70 weeks on the US pop album charts, peaking at No.1) was aided by its high-flying single, a blissful version of Jobim’s “Desafinado,” which m...
The concert’s critical and commercial success inspired a raft of jazz musicians who were excited by the improvisational possibilities that bossa nova presented. Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Wes Montgomery, Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Smith, and Oscar Peterson are just some of the big names that embraced the seductive sound of Brazilian music in th...
Both Sinatra and Fitzgerald recognized that Jobim was a musical giant whose stature as a songwriter rivaled the North American greats that they so admired, like George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Indeed, Jobim was responsible for writing so many of bossa nova’s key songs; undoubtedly, his principal talent was composing memorably seductive melodies ac...
In the 2000s, bossa nova received an exciting facelift courtesy of Bebel Gilberto, the daughter of João Gilberto and Miúcha, a Brazilian singer who had made two albums with Jobim in the 1970s. Bebel made her recording debut in the 1980s but didn’t make a breakthrough until 2000 with her debut album Tanto Tempo, a groundbreaking synthesis of Brazili...
Summing up the appeal of bossa nova music, Sérgio Mendes told this writer in 2019: “I think it’s very sensual, it’s very romantic, and you can also dance to it. Those three components make it very, very beautiful. And it has great melodies – melodies that you can remember.” Indeed, it does. With its hushed intimacy, poetic lyrics, alluring melodies...
- Charles Waring
Bossa Nova peaked in popularity between 1957 and 1963, right after its birth in Rio de Janeiro's south zone (which comprises areas such as Ipanema and Copacabana). Today, while no longer the most popular genre of music in Brazil, it has found worldwide fame and is often associated with well-known musicians such as João Gilberto, Vinícius de Moraes, Antonio Carlos Jobim (who collaborated with Frank Sinatra) and Luiz Bonfá.
TOP10 Bossa Nova Guitarists. BeginnerBossa NovaGeneral. 1. Joao Gilberto. Joao Gilberto is a co-founder of the bossa nova styleand thus also the most important guitarist of the genre. The fascination of his guitar playing is not based on virtuosity and string magic. The incredible calmness that radiates from the interplay of his singing and the ...
Sep 10, 2013 · Ep. 1/1 -. Singer Monica Vasconcelos tells the musical and political story of bossa nova, the first modern music of Brazil. Forget its low key supper club reputation: bossa nova was tied to ...
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The term bossa nova first emerged in the lyrics of the song “Desafinado” (Off Key) by Antonio Carlos Jobim, also known as Tom Jobim, and Newton Mendonça’s first recording of 1958 by João Gilberto’s Odeon label. That came to be recognized as the “new way” or “new knack” that revolutionized Brazilian music at the time (Moreno ...
