The Green Room 42 will present Broadway Goes Bossa on January 16th, 2026 at 7 PM.  Join in for a night of never before heard ...

Lalo Schifrin’s music carried the weight of exile, memory, and reinvention—and it was precisely this blend of tradition and innovation that moved Alex Sino to write lyrics for his 1966 instrumental ...

What’s All the Noise About? Vintage Noise captures the spirit of cool, blending the swing of jazz with the laid-back rhythms of bossa nova. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, they bring the swagger ...

Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean “the latest thing” or “the new beat” or “the new ...

With her soulful, cigarette-tinged contralto and emotive “bossa-jazz” stylings, she mesmerized audiences and critics alike. By Alex Williams Leny Andrade, the Brazilian singer who earned an ...

A prolific pianist, composer and arranger who began recording in the 1950s, he was a pioneer of bossa nova but didn’t confine himself to any genre. By Jon Pareles João Donato, a Brazilian composer, ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian bossa nova impresario and pianist who helped popularize the genre in the ‘60s and toured with Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra, has died. The recording artist died ...