If there were to be a "Great Americas Songbook," surely the music of João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim would be at the top of the list. KPAC's James Baker listens back in this Momentos Musicales ...

Astrud Gilberto died at the age of 83, according to the Associated Press. The story of her career as a singer is one of the most fascinating tales, if not the most unexpected. She was married then to ...

Off the strength of her Joni Mitchell program from last winter, Syracuse singer Maria DeAngelis will put together a night of bossa nova songs on Jan. 19 at Jazz Central, 440 E. Washington St., ...

Martha Bassett has long loved singing songs from the canon of bossa nova, that laidback and sensual genre of jazz that originated in Brazil during the late 1950s. But something was missing from her ...