“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 ...

Not to sound like a broken record, but I'll say it again: the variety of creative expression in what is inadequately labeled ...

Veteran Tulsa drummer Tony Yohe calls him "a marvelous guitar player; just one of those guys." Concert producer Jim Long calls him "a great and talented guy who knows his stuff." Both of them are ...

Charlie Byrd never really got his due as a jazz guitarist; most people see him as a pioneer in bossa nova and little else. Of course it doesn't help that many of his records were quiet affairs, ...

This terrific recording by Eliane Elias salutes the 50th anniversary of bossa nova in a number of explicit ways. For one thing, it contains the three most famous tunes by its most famous composer, ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian bossa nova impresario and pianist who helped popularize the genre in the ‘60s and toured with Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra, has died. The recording artist died ...

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