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Pages in category "Bossa nova songs" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Água de Beber;
Bossanova is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Pixies.It was released on August 13, 1990, by English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States.
Manila sound is styled as catchy and melodic, with smooth, lightly orchestrated, accessible folk/soft rock, sometimes fused with funk, light jazz and disco.However, broadly speaking, it includes quite a number of genres (e.g. pop, vocal music, soft rock, folk pop, disco, soul, Latin jazz, funk etc.), and should therefore be best regarded as a period in Philippine popular music rather than as a ...
"O, Lumapit Ka" - Ella del Rosario's solo signature seductive tune, her first mega-hit under her solo career and OctoArts' Canary Label, not under the Hotdog band. The song is a cover of “Só Em Teus Braços”, a bossa nova song first released by João Gilberto in 1960. Although both songs share the same melody, the lyrical contents are ...
Charlie Byrd - Sugarloaf Suite (1979) and The Bossa Nova Years (1991) Earl Klugh - Late Night Guitar (1980) Stan Getz & Cybill Shepherd - Mad About The Boy (1980) Tania Maria - Piquant (1980) Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Abraça Jobim (1981) Susannah McCorkle - Dream (1987) George Shearing & Hank Jones - The Spirit of 176 (1988) Stanley Turrentine ...
Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba [nb 1] developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.
Roberto Menescal (born October 25, 1937) is a Brazilian composer, record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and pioneer of bossa nova. In many of his songs there are references to the sea, including his best-known composition "O Barquinho" ("Little Boat"). He is also known for work with Carlos Lyra, Nara Leão, Wanda Sá, Ale Vanzella, and many others.
Along with Jobim's original compositions, the album features three standards from the Great American Songbook, ("Change Partners", "I Concentrate on You", and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads") arranged in the bossa nova style. Sinatra and Jobim followed up this album with sessions for a second collaboration, titled Sinatra-Jobim.