Word: bossa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jazz highlight of this weekend is 30 minutes out of town. Bossa nova master Stan Getz is bringing his tenor sax and his quartet to Sandy Berman's Jazz Revival in Beverly (54 Cabot St., 922-7515) through July 3. In addition to regular evening sets, the Getz quartet will play a special Sunday matinee from 4-7 p.m. Monday night traditional jazzmen Dave Whitney and Reggie Phillips take over...
Brazil's music makes rich use of its mixed national heritage: samba, conga, bossa nova and salsa mingle with rock and jazz influences from European groups. But today, musicians like Ben or his equally popular and more jazz-oriented contemporary Milton Nascimento are being enjoyed by the gringos who used either to sneer at "torrid-fun-in-the-sun rnythms" or water-down tangos for lounge lizards...
...abandoned her. She consoles herself with Jacques. Hélas, the affair is only a dream; in the end it is shattered by the little ironies of circumstance. During their chaste interlude, Jacques and Marthe bathetically wander the streets of Paris, serenaded by muzzy folk singers and a bossa nova group whose sentimentality matches the scenario. Four Nights of a Dreamer is adapted from a story by Dostoevsky. Surely not the Feodor Dostoevsky...
...musical come-together," Joy as a stage show has no more plot than a bagful of rainbows. But on a new RCA album, relieved of the need for action and reduced to pure sound, Joy becomes the sunniest original-cast LP of the year, an irresistible fantasia of blues, bossa nova, jazz and mild rock that tumbles beautifully out of living-room loudspeakers...