The Fujitsu Concord Jazz Fest celebration of summery bossa nova, originally skedded as a June concert, finally nestled at Carnegie Hall, with an autumnal tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim. With exotic ...

John Coltrane said it best: "We'd all like to sound like that if we could." Coltrane was talking about fellow tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, whose singularly beautiful sound and phrasing -- sensuous, ...

Stan Getz was born on this date in 1927. The day has an hour or so to go in this time zone, so before it expires, let’s listen to one of the master tenor saxophonist’s great collaborations. He and the ...

Stan Getz (tenor sax) with various groups. Recorded 1962-63. Nowadays, when singers from Bray to Boston learn enough Portuguese to have a go at Corcovado or Insensatez, it's hard to remember when ...

2009 marks the 45th anniversary of Getz/Gilberto, the album that established bossa nova in the international market – something that came at the right time, as the popularity of the unapologetically ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Less is more” goes the maxim, and nowhere has this concept been better understood than in Japan.

This is FRESH AIR. And we're listening to some of our favorite interviews from the early days of our national daily broadcasts. In 1988, Terry spoke with Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim. He ...

Antonio Carlos Jobim, the founding father of Brazil’s bossa nova music who composed the world-famous song “The Girl From Ipanema,” died Thursday in New York. He was 67. Jobim died of heart failure, a ...