Jazz And Samba at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Healdsburg Jazz

Explore the beginning of Bossa Nova following its arc through Brazil onto the world’s jazz music scene.  We will listen to the music of composers like João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Baden Powell.

Hosted by with Sherry Keith and Ami Molinelli with special guests Claudia Villela and Jovino Santos Neto. Sponsored by Healdsburg Jazz Festival with support from Creative Sonoma Arts Grant.

Guest artists, Jovino Santos Neto and Claudia Villela will interpret the music of these great Bossa Nova composers.  We will also explore the intersection of Bossa Nova with West Coast Jazz in the late 1950s and early 1960s via Jazz artists like Chet Baker and Stan Getz, as well as vocal icons such as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn...

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Explore the beginning of Bossa Nova following its arc through Brazil onto the world’s jazz music scene.  We will listen to the music of composers like João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Baden Powell.

Hosted by with Sherry Keith and Ami Molinelli with special guests Claudia Villela and Jovino Santos Neto. Sponsored by Healdsburg Jazz Festival with support from Creative Sonoma Arts Grant.

Guest artists, Jovino Santos Neto and Claudia Villela will interpret the music of these great Bossa Nova composers.  We will also explore the intersection of Bossa Nova with West Coast Jazz in the late 1950s and early 1960s via Jazz artists like Chet Baker and Stan Getz, as well as vocal icons such as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn. Bossa Nova can also be understood as arising with post-WWII Brazil’s growing urban middle class linking classical European harmonic influences with Its African rhythmic foundations. Finally, we will follow, Bossa Nova into the 21st century as an enduring musical genre. 

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