On Friday, a samba line will snake through the Hamilton Listening Studio, as the nine-member Brazilian jazz group Desafinado plays a Batucada, leading the audience for the first time in almost 20 ...

URBANA — Desafinado means "off-key" in Portuguese, the native tongue of Brazil, which inspires the band Desafinado. The band name is ironic because the sound is very tight; members of the band include ...

One of America's first champions of Brazilian bossa nova was Felix Grant. A jazz disc jockey in Washington D.C., Grant hosted The Album Sound on WMAL. His voice had a soft, sophisticated on-air sound ...