While the acting in Kristen Greenridge’s “Bossa Nova” is top-notch, the story itself is more like a broken microwave — it heats up, but it doesn’t cook. From the moment I stepped into the Yale ...
Released in 1964, the father of Brazilian bossa nova João Gilberto and famous American saxophonist Stan Getz collaborated to ...
If the concept of Bossa Jazz suggests a limp sub-Stan Getz lift music, the sounds on this archive trawl hit those bossa nova chord changes with crisp bop percussivity. Cinematic strings, clunky ...