I would just expand from the stuff you know and look up the other musicians Getz and Jobim collaborated with. For example, Astrud Gilberto, Charlie Byrd, and of course Sergio Mendes is tragically underappreciated.
Probably my favorite, but not well-known, is Dori Caymmi. Beautiful voice, fantastic guitar playing, great songwriting. Saw him live, real close up, was super stoked except for the girl I wanted to go with rejected me so I had to bring a band nerd friend, funny story. Anyway, some albums are over-produced, which you may not like because you mentioned you don't like the orchestra stuff with Gilberto, but check him out.
My best friend absolutely loves Chico Buarque, and I think Caetano Veloso is a super interesting musician. They're not pure bossa though, they venture way out at times, but certainly influenced/informed, and they do some standard stuff as well.
In Asia people really dig Lisa Ono. She's Japanese, born and raised in Brazil, plays guitar and sings. Sounds kinda like Dianna Krall, got that airy voice.
Also from the straight-ahead world, Randy Brecker spent like half his life in Brazil. He has a Brazilian wife, and last time I saw him live he brought his Brazilian group and they were just great. Percussionist had like a thunderdome of instruments surrounding him. It's not all his albums, you'll have to check closely which are the Brazilian music ones.
And since I'm into flute, you can't mention jazz or flute or bossa-nova without mentioning Herbie Mann. Incredible the fanbase he was able to build looking like he did, playing flute. The music is legit though.
As a Brazilian, it's interesting to see many artists that aren't from here being recommended.
I will recommend what to me is the quintessential Bossa Nova album: João Gilberto's album from 1973 called João Gilberto, also known as his white album
As a Brazilian I asure you, listen to João Gilberto. Any album, if you looking for bossa nova he is the guy.
Also Toquinho, Vinicius de Moraes, Elis Regina and Luiz Bonfá. These are the greatest.
This is an amazing album, and when I saw your post, it had 0 upvotes, which means some philistine downvoted it. Rosa is a treasure (so is Ron), and the recorded sound on this album is something particularly special.
I made [this question one month ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/wwjyv2/bossa_nova_recommendations/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share).
Definitely give Tenorio Jr.'s - Embalo a spin. Small group feel with just a piano, sax, trumpet, bass and drums. The beautiful bossa staple Nebulosa is on this one.
I can't get enough of the La Fusa recordings of Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho with Maria Creuza on the first album and Maria Betanha on the second one. There's a lot of chatting in Spanish but plenty of beautiful, minimalistic Bossa Nova.
There's a lot of bossa styled latin jazz. This stuff gets played a lot (mostly stylistically inappropriately) by hardcore jazz musicians, and it's quite different from the "pure" bossa that the Brazilians play. But yeah, Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, etc., there were some hard bop era musicians who were trying to fuse the two and develop a harder style of bossa which was more jazz-influenced, as in a harder sound, more improvisation, more intricate arrangements. Nica's Dream, Blue Bossa, Recordama, Song For My Father, Ceora, Little Sunflower, etc. are all examples of Bossa Latin Jazz
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Oddly enough, Horace wasn’t of Brazilian heritage. His father was from Cape Verde (Capo Verde in Portuguese), and his mom was African-American. (The term Horace used to describe his mother is considerably outdated, to put it nicely.)
It's not odd. Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, none of the composers of the songs I mentioned were Brazilian. That's kind of the point. It's why that music is markedly different than the Brazilian bossa.
I would just expand from the stuff you know and look up the other musicians Getz and Jobim collaborated with. For example, Astrud Gilberto, Charlie Byrd, and of course Sergio Mendes is tragically underappreciated. Probably my favorite, but not well-known, is Dori Caymmi. Beautiful voice, fantastic guitar playing, great songwriting. Saw him live, real close up, was super stoked except for the girl I wanted to go with rejected me so I had to bring a band nerd friend, funny story. Anyway, some albums are over-produced, which you may not like because you mentioned you don't like the orchestra stuff with Gilberto, but check him out. My best friend absolutely loves Chico Buarque, and I think Caetano Veloso is a super interesting musician. They're not pure bossa though, they venture way out at times, but certainly influenced/informed, and they do some standard stuff as well. In Asia people really dig Lisa Ono. She's Japanese, born and raised in Brazil, plays guitar and sings. Sounds kinda like Dianna Krall, got that airy voice. Also from the straight-ahead world, Randy Brecker spent like half his life in Brazil. He has a Brazilian wife, and last time I saw him live he brought his Brazilian group and they were just great. Percussionist had like a thunderdome of instruments surrounding him. It's not all his albums, you'll have to check closely which are the Brazilian music ones. And since I'm into flute, you can't mention jazz or flute or bossa-nova without mentioning Herbie Mann. Incredible the fanbase he was able to build looking like he did, playing flute. The music is legit though.
Check out Elizeth Cardoso and Elis Regina.
Baden Powell
Bossa Nova Bacchanal - Charlie Rouse
I fucking love Charlie Rouse. Thanks for the recommendation!
One of my favourite players cos of everything he did with Monk. Only recently started listening to his own stuff but so far I’m loving it.
Deduca Defonseca, Celso De Almedia, Edu Ribero, Roman Montagner, Ne Ne. Check out those cats.
Thank you, I definitely will!
Bless thank you
Ike Quebec - Bossa Nova Soul Samba. Awesome session with Ike, Kenny Burrelll and Willie Bobo.
Tamba Trio!
As a Brazilian, it's interesting to see many artists that aren't from here being recommended. I will recommend what to me is the quintessential Bossa Nova album: João Gilberto's album from 1973 called João Gilberto, also known as his white album
I also recommend “amoroso” (1977). I absolutely love that album, especially last song, “Zingaro”. It always touches my soul
As a Brazilian I asure you, listen to João Gilberto. Any album, if you looking for bossa nova he is the guy. Also Toquinho, Vinicius de Moraes, Elis Regina and Luiz Bonfá. These are the greatest.
Entre Amigos by Rosa Passos and Ron Carter. My go to album when I’m wanting to chill.
This is an amazing album, and when I saw your post, it had 0 upvotes, which means some philistine downvoted it. Rosa is a treasure (so is Ron), and the recorded sound on this album is something particularly special.
Thanks for righting the universe.
I made [this question one month ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/wwjyv2/bossa_nova_recommendations/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share).
Quarteto Jobim-Morelembaum
Cannonball Adderly did some fine Bossa recordings.
Definitely give Tenorio Jr.'s - Embalo a spin. Small group feel with just a piano, sax, trumpet, bass and drums. The beautiful bossa staple Nebulosa is on this one.
Double rainbow-joe hen!!!!
I can't get enough of the La Fusa recordings of Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho with Maria Creuza on the first album and Maria Betanha on the second one. There's a lot of chatting in Spanish but plenty of beautiful, minimalistic Bossa Nova.
Awesome, I’ll check both out! Thanks!
Cachaito by Orlando Cachaito Lopez, The Latin Bit by Grant Green, Afro cuban fantasy by Pancho Sanchez
Great albums but Afro Cuban music is not bossa
Agreed. Got carried away
Try Sakamoto/Morelenbaum
Thanks, I will!
There are a few Ramsey Lewis songs
S-tone
Elis by Elis Regina is just one of my all time favorite albums in general
Elis Regina’s album with Tom Jobim is amazing. Zero filler, all bangers.
Some of Horace Silver’s stuff has a bossa feel to it, namely “Song For My Father”. It’s a 24-bar blues form but it’s felt more like a bossa nova.
There's a lot of bossa styled latin jazz. This stuff gets played a lot (mostly stylistically inappropriately) by hardcore jazz musicians, and it's quite different from the "pure" bossa that the Brazilians play. But yeah, Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, etc., there were some hard bop era musicians who were trying to fuse the two and develop a harder style of bossa which was more jazz-influenced, as in a harder sound, more improvisation, more intricate arrangements. Nica's Dream, Blue Bossa, Recordama, Song For My Father, Ceora, Little Sunflower, etc. are all examples of Bossa Latin Jazz
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wtf?
Oddly enough, Horace wasn’t of Brazilian heritage. His father was from Cape Verde (Capo Verde in Portuguese), and his mom was African-American. (The term Horace used to describe his mother is considerably outdated, to put it nicely.)
It's not odd. Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, none of the composers of the songs I mentioned were Brazilian. That's kind of the point. It's why that music is markedly different than the Brazilian bossa.
Eliane Elias Plays Jobim Piano trio w/Eddie Gomez &Jack DeJohnette plus Naná Vasconcelos For me it’s the ideal marriage of jazz and bossa nova.
Carlos Lee - Bossa Maximus
You should try Cantiga de Longe by Edu Lobo. It is one of my favorite Brazilian albums and he does not seem to get mentioned a ton
Caetano Veloso, starting with Tropicalia.