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 ...

Pianist and composer Antonio Carlos Jobim played a vital role in popularizing Brazilian music in this country and igniting the bossa-nova craze specifically. Thanks to his Grammy Award-winning 1964 ...

Antonio Carlos Jobim is most closely associated with bossa nova, the gorgeously melodic, harmonically rich, jazz-tinged music that burst onto the international scene from Brazil in the late ‘50s and ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Chauffeured in a classic Porsche, the Brazilian beauty steps out into 1960s Rio de Janeiro. The pastel pastiche is easy on the eyes, and so is the pin-up girl tracing twirls as a ...

If there’s a pop musician of the last 60 years who deserves a great documentary, it’s Antonio Carlos Jobim. Some might bristle at my description of him as “pop.” In Brazil, where Jobim, one of the ...

Unless you're Brazilian or have lived somewhere in the lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) sphere, you may not immediately recognize the name or the face of Seu Jorge. Still, you may have seen or heard ...

Why have jazz musicians and singers been so drawn to the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim? For many reasons, all of them valid. There is, first of all, the marvelous arc of his melodies; add to that the ...

As far as I can tell, the one and only time an Antônio Carlos Jobim song was heard on Broadway was in Twyla Tharp’s “Come Fly Away.” The song was “Wave,” which, as I write this, makes me want to be on ...

Jobim was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists internationally since the early 1960s. After enchanting ...

Jazz pianist, composer/arranger and singer, Sarah McKenzie has wowed fans across the globe with stellar live performances at Montreux Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, The Blue Note (multiple ...

In 1988, Terry Gross spoke with Jobim, who wrote "The Girl from Ipanema," one of the songs that started the Bossa nova craze in the United States.... Celebrating 30 Years Of 'Fresh Air': Brazilian ...