Pianist and composer Antonio Carlos Jobim played a vital role in popularizing Brazilian music in this country and igniting the bossa-nova craze specifically. Thanks to his Grammy Award-winning 1964 ...

Unless you're Brazilian or have lived somewhere in the lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) sphere, you may not immediately recognize the name or the face of Seu Jorge. Still, you may have seen or heard ...

Antonio Carlos Jobim is most closely associated with bossa nova, the gorgeously melodic, harmonically rich, jazz-tinged music that burst onto the international scene from Brazil in the late ‘50s and ...

Musicians at Casa de Francisca, in São Paulo, Brazil. One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and composer Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim were sitting at Bar Veloso, in Rio de Janeiro, when ...

Why have jazz musicians and singers been so drawn to the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim? For many reasons, all of them valid. There is, first of all, the marvelous arc of his melodies; add to that the ...

One afternoon in July 1958, Brazilian guitarist and singer João Gilberto entered a studio and quickly recorded “Chega de Saudade,” an early composition by Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Really, is there anyone who does not like Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom)? Antonio Adolfo, the pianist, arranger, and producer behind this wonderful recording, seems to have lived in a parallel universe to ...