Co-directors Nelson Pereira Dos Santos and Dora Jobim create a lively musical memorial to Brazil’s ambassador of bossa nova. By Stephen Dalton Cannes Musica Segundo Tom Jobim Still - P 2012 This ...

When one thinks of an Antonio Carlos Jobim record, what comes to mind are either his '60s recordings with João Gilberto and Frank Sinatra, or discs that feature him with a large backing ensemble.

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 ...

Yet we’re long past the point where pop can’t include all that. Just consider Steely Dan’s “Aja,” an album of luminous jazz modalities that also happens to be the purest pop. Jobim, though he wrote in ...

Frank Sinatra was well into his Rat Pack era, the reigning American embodiment of masculine suavity and aplomb, when he teamed up with a maestro of Brazilian music to make one of the most exquisitely ...

Twenty-song set contains the complete 1967 'Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim' album plus all 10 songs from its intended 1969 follow-up, Sinatra/Jobim LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- In 1967, Frank ...

This new two-disc set - whose full title is João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and the Stylists of Bossa Nova Sing - celebrates the feathery, tender sounds of Bossa Nova, the Brazilian spin on samba ...

When bossa nova exploded in America and everywhere else in the early 1960s, Jobim was its star. His catchy songs were played everywhere. The “Girl from Ipanema” made Rio’s famous beach famous. But ...

In early 1960 a new Brazilian movie called “Black Orpheus” opened at the Capri Theater on Huntington Avenue. The theater would be torn down two years later, but America’s love affair with the gentle ...

A visitor enters Spacebomb Studios through what seems like a dressing room in the Rosewood Clothing Company on South Robinson Street. Sunlight comes through a rectangular cutaway in the wall, filtered ...

If you’ve heard any Brazilian music in the past few years, it’s a fair bet that you’ve experienced the work of Jacques Morelenbaum, as either a cellist, an arranger-orchestrator or a producer. A ...