It has been said that Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim was the George Gershwin of Brazil—and there is a solid ring of truth in that, for both contributed large bodies of songs to the jazz ...

Before the music begins, the waves are already there. Even before the first note of the piano sounds, there is a sense of the sea from somewhere far away. That is the magic of the composer Jobim. He ...

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Marc Ribot’s Map of a Blue City is uneven, unsettling, intriguing, and surprisingly warm but not easily accessible to most. It comes off, probably just as he intended, as a late-night conversation ...

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It’s bossa nova and samba, but so much more — funky, soulful and esoteric. Listen to these songs chosen by Joyce Moreno, Marcos Valle, Amaro Freitas and more lovers of Brazilian rhythms. Credit ...

NEWPORT, Ore. — At a moment when large offshore wind projects are encountering public resistance, a nascent ocean industry is showing promise: wave energy. It’s coming to life in Newport, a rainy ...

New wave music was around before the early '80s when the genre first started an advancement onto the U.S. charts. Often seen as punk's poppier younger siblings, new wave artists often shared radio ...

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Bossa nova emerged in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of the 1950s as a fusion of samba and jazz (the phrase 'bossa nova’ means 'new wave' in Portuguese). Two of bossa nova's earliest and most ...

As a musical movement, new wave is hard to pin down. The phrase was first coined in the late ‘70s as a way to describe a burgeoning sonic style that strayed from punk rock’s heavy-handed sound. The ...

Tune into this Saturday's game between the Iowa State Cyclones and Iowa Hawkeyes, and at the end of the first quarter, you'll witness one of the best traditions in college football. During the Hawkeye ...