Big Band Bossanova Hard Bop on his way to becoming

on his way to becoming one of modern jazz’s outstanding pianists

But one of the most intriguing legends owes its existence to the great bardic heritage of Wales

the flickering grace of Frisell and the plangent tenderness of Wheeler himself

Between 1979 and 1982

Big Band Bossanova Hard Bop on his way to becomingThe 1953 Bud Shank Laurindo Almeida recordings are recognized as being the precursors of bossa nova jazz fusion. However, two 1962 Stan Getz LPs, Jazz Samba and Big Band Bossa Nova (presented here), and the albums that followed them in 1963, Jazz Samba Encore and Getz Gilberto, would start the bossa nova craze. The bossa fervor soon crossed the Atlantic, as attested by the following review by Nigel Hunter in the February 1963 edition of the British