Back in the 1960s, baroque pop turned into ... It is a brilliant, breezy album that is full of orchestrated jazz and bossa nova touches. Considered a commercial flop at the time, the album got ...

The singer and composer was known best as a pioneer of the bossa nova genre, which found international popularity in the 1960s ... player Stan Getz. Their album sold millions of copies and ...

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian bossa nova singer best known for The Girl from Ipanema, has died aged 83. One of Brazil's biggest stars of the 1960s and 70s, she recorded 16 albums and worked with ...