Word: novas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean "the latest thing" or "the new beat" or "the new wrinkle." Bossa literally means a protuberance, but in the argot of Rio, it connotes a natural talent or knack, as in the line, "The Duke has a lot of bossa." The only points everybody is agreed on are that 1) bossa nova is a weird crossbreeding of cool jazz with chili-peppered Latin rhythms and 2) it is big, and getting even bigger...
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...
Schwartz has ridden the postwar trend to national style in fashions and materials. "Take a dress like this," says he, fingering a "double-knit" wool sheath. "You can wear this in Nova Scotia or you can wear it in Atlanta when the temperature is 107 degrees." Schwartz and his Cornell-educated son Richard, 24, Jonathan Logan's executive vice president, now show new lines in Dallas or Minneapolis before they show in New York, discard models that go over poorly outside Manhattan...