ALTON – The BonBon Plot will take the stage at 8 p.m. Friday, June 16, at Jacoby Arts Center, to reinterpret bossa nova for the audience at 627 E. Broadway. Will and Janet Buchanan started the band, ...

I was in Rio de Janeiro yesterday. Not the real Rio but the Rio of YouTube and my imagination. With temperatures still frigid in New York, my mind drifted off to South America and the many great bossa ...

RACINE - For years, John Pizzarelli performed in a trio without a drummer. That was a hallmark of the trio's sound, which many have compared to the Nat "King" Cole trio. But when Pizzarelli took to ...

One afternoon in July 1958, Brazilian guitarist and singer João Gilberto entered a studio and quickly recorded “Chega de Saudade,” an early composition by Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Doug Munro's sixth CD for Chase Music Group is a return to a traditional bossa nova trio, dropping the keyboards or sax utilized on most of his earlier projects. He is joined by bassist Michael Goetz, ...

Join the festivities as the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center kicks off the 2008-2009 season with one of the true icons of Brazilian music superstar Milton Nascimento. Nascimento and the renown Jobim ...

Bring along beach chairs, picnic baskets and wine to enjoy a carefree outdoor summer evening with music and friends. The musicians are Viktor Rivkin (sax), Eugene Pliner (keyboard) and Alex Muchnik ...