One legend pays tribute to another with “The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim,” an all-music homage compiled by Cinema Novo helmer Nelson Pereira dos Santos with the composer’s granddaughter ...

Apart from his more widely known accomplishments as a founder of bossa nova and the writer of standards such as "The Girl From Ipanema, "Corcovado, and "Desafinado, Antonio Carlos Jobim harbored an ...

The day after Jobim died I was in a store, trying, as usual, to ignore their Muzak. Suddenly they started playing "Ipanema" in one of those murderously perky arrangements. It was so awful, especially ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, Brazil gave the world the bossa nova, a musical style based on the samba but about 10 times cooler and mellower, if that’s possible. And, amazing as it sounds, a girl from Ipanema really ...

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 ...

One legend pays tribute to another with “The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim,” an all-music homage to the most identifiable Brazilian songwriter of the 20th century, compiled by Cinema Novo ...