What a difference a change of pace can make … Quincy Jones – “Soul Bossa Nova” (1962 ... but brought the brothers to play on his soundtrack for the ABC TV mini-series “Roots,” welcomed ...

Mr. Jones’s sophisticated and swinging approach to jazz, R&B, pop, soul, bossa nova, gospel and rap was a product of an ...

Not only did he showcase bossa nova to the world, Sérgio Mendes personifies how you don’t have to be a shark to succeed in the global music business. The Brazilian music legend here reminisces on an ...

Quincy Jones talks to Uncut about Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis and a remarkable life in music ...

He played the trumpet with Lionel Hampton, produced albums ('Thriller'), songs ("We Are the World," "It's My Party"), films ( ...

They later moved to Seattle, where Quincy Jr. attended Garfield High School and ignited his passion for the arts by studying music composition and learning to play the trumpet. That kept him out ...

Yet there is more to this track than jazz fused with Portuguese rhythms: Silver had been to Brazil in early 1964, and you can just catch the spirit of the bossa nova ... songs that would be easy ...

This list is updated monthly with new “Best of the Year”–worthy songs. Whoever invented the ... as you are that “sex raps over a bossa nova drum beat” sounds as good as it does.

Review: A KISS FOR BRAZIL Brings Karrin Allyson's Bossa Nova Spell & More to Birdland by ... presented on October 24th. So many songs, so many singers, jammed into three nights, is the cornucopia ...

FRENCH bossa nova band Nouvelle Vague are set to play at a historic mill as part of their 21st anniversary tour. Nouvelle Vague are the iconic cover band behind hits like In A Manner of ...