Spice It Up!

A Hectic Life

Para Sempre - Sambas

16 Toneladas

Bossa Antigua

Samba Cantina

Bossa Nova In Concert

Os Grilos (Crickets Sing For Ana Maria) (LIve)

The Brasil Project Vol. II

Samba de Orfeu

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In the summer of 1958, a singer-guitarist from Bahia in the north of Brazil called João Gilberto created a musical revolution when he joined with Bossa Novas seminal songwriting team, the gifted composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, and the poet and former diplomat, Vinicius de Moraes, to record the songs that would launch this cool, futuristic new music for a confident new era.

Bossa nova, "The New Way", was influenced by modern classical music (Villa-Lobos, Debussy), jazz and samba-canção. Gilberto brought an unprecedented guitar style and a hushed, understated form of vocal expression that defined the movement and changed the course of music history.

Amor, o sorriso è a flor (Love, a Smile, and a Flower) is the second in the trilogy of formative bossa nova albums released by João Gilberto between 1959 and 1961 (Chega de Saudade being the first).

These albums are quite literally the aesthetic and musical blueprints for a genre that would exert an irresistible worldwide influence on popular music.

João Gilberto - O Pato

Que Falta Você Me Faz

Samba da Bênção (feat. Marcel Powell)

Samba Cantina

Paul Desmond

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