Sixty years ago, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 helped globalize the sound of bossa nova with the game-changing album Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, a top 10 hit on the Billboard 200 ...

Suffering from poor albums sales as a jazz-bossa pianist at Atlantic Records in 1965, Sérgio Mendes decided to listen to a recommendation made by Richard Adler, a producer at A&M Records. Adler, who ...

Sixty years ago, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 helped globalize the sound of bossa nova with the game-changing album Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, a top 10 hit on the Billboard 200 ...

Like a Wayback Machine, certain sights, sounds, smells and tastes transports us to certain times and places in our lives. Listening to Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 from their hitmaking days from four ...

A pianist, composer and arranger, he rose to fame with the group Brasil ’66 and remained a force in popular music for more than six decades. By Barry Singer Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian-born pianist, ...

Mendes, who died on Thursday at age 83, had the kind of career artists dream about. By Paul Grein Former A&M Records executive Derek Taylor captured the sound of Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 in a few ...

When Sergio Mendes reflects on the amazing journey he calls life, from his formative years at the forefront of a bossa nova revolution through his Oscar-nominated work on "Rio" to the recent ...

Fronted by his widow (and longtime musical partner) Gracinha Leporace, the tour rolled into New Jersey on Sunday. By Joe Lynch Executive Digital Director Sixty years ago, Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 ...