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Antonio Carlos Jobim et al: Focus On Bossa Nova

by Arnaldo DeSouteiro
April 16, 2025

This is a trip into the world of bossa nova. Or the worlds of bossa nova. For the style that made Brazilian music so respected and famous all over the world has some subdivisions that coexist among its universe. Bossa nova ranges from the cool/introspective/airy sounds patented by Joao Gilberto in the late Fifties, to a strong/vigorous/hard-bop influenced samba-jazz that reigned in the mid-Sixties. But both streams are equally sophisticated in harmonic terms, mixing beautiful melodies with captivating grooves. So, ...

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Miucha: Miucha com Vinicius, Tom, Joao

Read "Miucha com Vinicius, Tom, Joao" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
December 15, 2008

The concept behind this attractive but all-too-succinct compilation sounds like a question from a tropical version of the Trivial Pursuits game: Who is the only vocalist to have recorded at one point or another with all three of bossa nova's holy trinity--Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto and Vinicius de Moraes? It's surprising that there is only one answer to that question. But it's not at all shocking to learn that the singer in question is Heloisa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, ...