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 ...

Antonio Carlos Jobim is most closely associated with bossa nova, the gorgeously melodic, harmonically rich, jazz-tinged music that burst onto the international scene from Brazil in the late ‘50s and ...

Unless you're Brazilian or have lived somewhere in the lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) sphere, you may not immediately recognize the name or the face of Seu Jorge. Still, you may have seen or heard ...

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 ...

Why have jazz musicians and singers been so drawn to the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim? For many reasons, all of them valid. There is, first of all, the marvelous arc of his melodies; add to that the ...

As far as I can tell, the one and only time an Antônio Carlos Jobim song was heard on Broadway was in Twyla Tharp’s “Come Fly Away.” The song was “Wave,” which, as I write this, makes me want to be on ...

The Fujitsu Concord Jazz Fest celebration of summery bossa nova, originally skedded as a June concert, finally nestled at Carnegie Hall, with an autumnal tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim. With exotic ...