Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elis Regina: Elis & Tom

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Chris McGowan wrote in the Huffington Post: "Bossa nova was born in July of 1958 when singer-guitarist Joao Gilberto released the single 'Chega de Saudade.' … Bossa was a new type of samba in which the genre's rhythmic complexity had been pared down to its bare essentials. … … American jazz artists discovered bossa nova a few years later. … Bossa nova was the big pop-music trend of the early 1960s, until it was supplanted by the English rock invasion led by the Beatles. … Over the last five decades, bossa nova has had a huge impact on international music. … Bossa nova was also important in the evolution of Brazilian music, leading directly to the creation of Brazil's rich eclectic popular music (MPB) that followed in the late 1960s and '70s. It remains an influence on virtually all young Brazilian musicians today, whatever their style. I'm always listening with delight to Jobim and Elis Regin[a]'s superb Elis & Tom, Jobim's sublime albums Urubu and Matita Perê and various bossa collections, and finding little current popular music that compares in quality" ("Blame It on the Bossa Nova," 12/5/08).