Sergio Mendes, the innovative and influential pianist, composer and arranger who was one of Brazil’s earliest contemporary crossover artists, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family has confirmed. No ...

For a night of bonafide bossa nova, the mellow Brazilian style that evokes balmy breezes and those “soft and tan and young and lovely” girls from the beach at Ipanema, you can either fly to Rio, or ...

Sérgio Mendes, a musician who emerged with Brazil's bossa nova movement in the 1960s and became an ambassador for that country's music around the world, died Thursday in his adopted hometown of Los ...