Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a touchstone of jazz and bossa nova, the ...

The credit for starting the 1960s boom in bossa nova - a more melodious and less rhythmically assertive form of samba - goes to guitarist Charlie Byrd, who returned to the US from a concert tour of ...

Bossa nova was jazz's final moment in the hit parade sunshine before The Beatles swept across the world in the mid-1960s and changed everything. A blend of chilled- out Brazilian samba and cool jazz ...

Know what's really cool to a music lover? When record labels that own a big chunk of an important artist's output release it as thoroughly, as nicely and as affordably as Sony is doing in its “The ...

John Coltrane said it best: "We'd all like to sound like that if we could." Coltrane was talking about fellow tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, whose singularly beautiful sound and phrasing -- sensuous, ...