Welcome to the Bossa Nova & Brazilian Jazz thread!

A space dedicated to the appreciation of the most known Brazilian music genre in the world, which blends jazz and samba. Famous and also rare pieces are going to be posted (hopefully) one per day. Feel free to share your favorites. Take off your shoes, prepare your caipirinha drink, and swing like a wave to the smooth Bossa Nova guitar chords.

Somebody has to post this one here, so it might as well be me.

Worth a listen for the opening song alone...

^ ^^^^^^ Love Elza's newest.

Anything by Hermeto!

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This has been high on my list of recent albums.
Produced by Thiago Nassif. Twenty year old
Ana Frango Elétrico ("Ana Electric Chicken")
with her debut album. A track from it:

This one is an all-time favorite of mine.

Not a bossa nova album (though, there is a little bit of it here) but it is Brazilian and it is jazz (among other things)...

The Bossa Nova is very cool-I'm thinking of-The Girl From Impanema.

*Ipanema*

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I can't believe you know Ana Frango Elétrico HAHA, please keep it up rostasi! PS: Hermeto Pascoal is SO GREAT!

That's very good Psy, I din't know this one, thanks a lot for introducing!!

I don't really know anything about bossa nova except for some casual listening to the standards in the genre, so I think I'll have to scour this thread and check all this out. Thanks for starting this, xico.

You're welcome man! And whenever you discover something cool share whit us!;)

I stumbled across this album a year or so ago while I was looking for something else. Japanese bossa nova that sounds convincing enough that it almost could have come right out of Brazil during the 1960's...

Two albums that got lots of play at home.

The Airto track, Lucky Southern (written by Keith Jarrett),
was one of those tunes where I just had to transcribe the piano
solo for vibraphone because I was so utterly taken in by its expert
phrasing that I really wanted to learn it.



and, of course, Cal Tjader - best known for the Chano Pozo tune, Soul Sauce -
with his later album Amazonas and its João Donato title tune. Notice George Duke.

Vibraphone is so cool! Roy Ayers is probably my favorite american musician btw. I guess you should record this solo and post it here haha

Very good indeed!

Well, as Brazil is the country with the largest japanese population outside Japan, no wonder there would be at least one nippo-brazilian Bossa Nova famous musician, and this is Lisa Ono. A singer who had a key role in popularizing Brazilian music in Japan:




"Lamp" is one of the latest bands in Japanese independent music scene which has Bossa as a major influence:




And the master Ryuichi Sakamoto also recorded with the Brazilian duo Jacques and Paula Morelenbaum a nice Bossa album called "Casa":

Coming next week!

^^^ Super cooool, both sound and artwork!

A bit more of classics:








More Hermeto Pascoal, a.k.a cutest musician ever (there's a documentary called "Quebrando Tudo" that helps you find out why)

Here's a compilation album from the "Putumayo Presents" series...

Pedro Martins, a new talent on guitar

Jewel of Jazz Fusion, Arthur Verocai

verocai is so sad..

true! hence, so cool.

One of these days I'm going through all of this.

Have a nice journey!

EXTREMELY RARE FINDS IN THIS SET, Organized by Amsterdam based record collector Palo Santo

Samba Obscuro (Obscure Samba), a wonderful mixtape by Kiko Dinucci, consisting of great sambas with melancholic lyrics

Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 were my introduction to bossa nova and Brazilian music. Mas que Nada is a classic.

I love Azymuth ...música muito bonita ! :)

Azymuth is always a good trip!

Sergio Mendes is an amazing pianist! I also recommend you to listen to Mas Que Nada on Jorge Benjor and Elza Soares voices

Four of the greatest ladies on Bossa!

1. 'Bossa, Balanço, Balada' (1963) Sylvia Telles was already a respected and renowned singer, with some years of activity before Bossa Nova came around the Brazilian music scene. In 1959, amazed by that cool and innovative new style of playing Samba, she had the idea of working on an album entirely dedicated to the compositions of Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was on this album, recorded by the Elenco label that she had proved she has got everything to be the greatest singer of Bossa. Tragically just after three years of the release of this masterpiece she had died in a car accident, putting an abrupt end to a brilliant and promising career.



2. 'Vagamente' (1964) Album-icon of the second phase of Bossa Nova, this is the debut of the 20 year old young Wanda Sa, produced by the great guitarist Roberto Menescal. This work got together young and talented compositors like Marcos Valle, players like Eumir Deodato and Sergio Mendes, and the young performer singing in a modern jazz vibe, with a husky and soft voice.



3. 'Nara' (1964) Nara Leao was so intimate of Bossa Nova that at the same time she made her debut on the movement she despised it for being a thing of the upper-class. She introduced in this album modern arrangements and sang compositions of artists from humbler origins than her like Ze Keti and Paulinho Da Viola (a.k.a the lord of the Samba).



4. 'Joyce' (1968) The debut album of one of the few female composers of Bossa Nova gave her national and international recognition. She brings an interesting influence of Chorinho (one of the first forms of samba) to Joyce's happy, and fresh Bossa. Joyce is frequently regarded as one of the most skillful guitarists of Brazil.

Japan is the second home of bossa nova which they have been performing and recording since the early 60s. In Japan, it is not unusual to walk into a bar on karaoke night and watch people sing bossa nova all night long. It's very popular. In fact, the Japanese have spread it to Korea and Vietnam. A great many Japanese bossa nova artists go to Brazil and vice-versa. A lot of Brazilian artists have learned to sing their songs in Japanese just in case they end up going to Japan. I don't how the pandemic has affected all that.