Charlie Byrd never really got his due as a jazz guitarist; most people see him as a pioneer in bossa nova and little else. Of course it doesn't help that many of his records were quiet affairs, ...

1. Yvone 2. A Salute To Bonfa 3. Meditation 4. You And I 5. A Most Beautiful Thing 6. Little Boat 7. Slightly Out Of Tune 8. Samba Triste 9. Bim Bom 10. Ho-Ba-La-La 11. She Has Gone 12. The Bird 13.

A goodwill State Department trip to South America in 1961 made Charlie Byrd pay attention to the smooth sounds taking over Brazil. He brought them back, shared them with saxophonist Stan Getz and ...

This year is the 60th anniversary of the cool beat of bossa nova. What could that possibly have to do with the D.C. area? Well, it turns out that the album “Jazz Samba,” which introduced to the world ...

Last year was the 50th anniversary of the release of “Jazz Samba.” This seminal album by Stan Getz (tenor sax) and Charlie Byrd (guitar) had a profound impact on jazz, introducing to America a ...

Nothing captures the sound, the mood or the languor of summer quite like the bossa nova. Invented along the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s, the quietly swaying Brazilian music became a ...

Guitarist Charlie Byrd was an American guitar virtuoso who made many recordings of enduring impact in jazz, blues and classical genres. He captured the lively expressiveness and rhythmic forms of jazz ...

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 ...