Bossa

When Brazilian musicians like composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and guitarist Joao Gilberto heard the "cool jazz" of the U.S. in the late 1950s and adapted it to a gentler samba rhythm syncopated on the guitar the result was the reflective, romantic music called Bossa Nova.

Bossa Nova has had a continuing influence on jazz artists all over the world as well as most Brazilian popular music since then. The most prolific and well-known composer of Bossa Nova was, of course, Antonio Carlos Jobim. His songs are a part of the repertoire of nearly everyone listed under this style in our catalog. The collaboration between Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz along with Astrud Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim yielded the 1964 album Getz/Gilberto (with it's hit single "Girl From Ipanema") that spread Bossa Nova throughout the world. Sergio Mendes continued that spread through the sixties with Brasil '66 and has re-emerged again in the nineties with recordings that have gone beyond Bossa Nova.