1962 bossa nova

ST-1759

plays amazing, super clean, amazing music

Recorded in Los Angeles during the early Bossa Nova craze, this album brings together Brazilian-jazz guitar pioneer Laurindo Almeida and U.S. session heavyweights like Bud Shank and Bob Cooper to blend samba rhythms with cool jazz sophistication. A landmark of cultural fusion, Viva Bossa Nova! helped introduce American audiences to Brazilian soundscapes through lush string and rhythm arrangements—an essential artifact of 1960s musical exchange.

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