Word: bossa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tokyo Blues (The Horace Silver Quintet; Blue Note) is a fascinating marriage of Latin rhythms to Oriental melodies, presided over by the lingering blues sound of Silver's piano. Gene Taylor's bass solos are the best expression of this trans-Pacific bossa nova, and Junior Cook on tenor sax makes the trip seem pleasant and short...
...Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros (Riverside) casts Guitarist Charlie Byrd in with a mixture of accompanists who sometimes keep the pace and sometimes fall behind. Remarkably, either event serves to enhance Byrd's richly inventive style. He manages to make bossa nova sound almost like music...
Although it is generally too slow to dance to, bossa nova has been the rage of Brazilian café society for several years...
...home country it has become almost a religion. "Philosophically," says Brazilian Jazzman Ronaldo Boscoli, "bossa nova is a frame of mind in the same way that Chaplin, Picasso, Prokofiev, Debussy and even Beethoven represented a new frame of mind. They were bossa nova in their time" Such U.S. jazzmen as Flutist Herbie Mann heard the new music, liked it and began putting it in their programs back home. ("Twist music," said Mann, ";is all show and promise -no inner fire. Bossa nova is just the opposite.") Another early convert was Jazz Guitarist Charlie Byrd, who heard bossa nova while...
...Bossa nova is a loose, relaxed and infectious music that puts far more emphasis on melody than is usual in modern jazz...