To many, bossa nova means little more than the supercool shimmy of Astrud Gilberto’s Girl From Ipanema, or a hip-wiggling ditty in a dodgy Elvis movie. Unsurprisingly, there’s much more to the music which started life as a mixture of samba and jazz in the clubs and on the beaches of Rio De Janeira 50 years ago as a way of serenading bea…
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