Blame it on the Beatles. That’s how Brazilian-born musician and composer Orlando Haddad, 61, explains his leap from Beethoven to rock. “I studied classical piano from the age of eight,” says Haddad, a ...

TAP&TOM is tap dance and song to the bossa nova beat and will take place Friday, April 21st, 8 pm at The Players Theatre, 115 Macdougal Street (One block from the W 4th St. subway), featuring tap ...

ON THE BEAT: Just in time for the warm-weather months, Marti Jones has gone bossa-nova on her first solo album in nine years. The cleverly titled “You’re Not the Bossa Me” won’t be jarring to longtime ...

A new singer is infusing traditional bolero with modern style, but she doesn’t hail from Latin America. Spain’s Montserrat has won widespread acclaim from her native country to bolero’s native country ...

So that morning in Mr Oliveira's office, he evidently found a cockroach waiting inside the top drawer of his desk. Something about this vision of vermin clicked inside the company man, and he decided ...

Jazz saxophonists had a field day with the bossa nova in 1962. The jazz-Brazilian folk experiments first undertaken by alto saxophonist Bud Shank and guitarist Laurindo Almeida in the early and late ...