Brazilian jazz was huge in the 1960’s when “The Girl from Ipanema” swept the United States and the world with its infectious melody. Bossa Nova is big again, as young New Yorkers and Angelinos are hip to the bittersweet syncopated style of the great Antonio Carlos Jobim, a man much beloved of his countrymen.
 
Bossa Nova was born in July of 1958, when singer guitarist Joao Gilberto released the single ‘Chega de Saudadade’ (‘No More Blues’) written by Antonio Carlos Jobim (known to his friends as Tom). Bossa was a new type of samba in which the genre’s rhythmic complexity had been pared down to its bare essentials. The songs were casual and subtle, yet imbued with an infectious swing.
 
Jobim bolstered the beautiful melodies with unusual harmonies heard before only in the realms of modern classical music or jazz. Bossa’s rhythmic and harmonic richness was expressed with sophisticated simplicity and was something unprecedented in the world of popular music, in Brazil or elsewhere.
 
A Night in Rio on February 6, features Brazil’s Trio da Paz - Duduka da Fonseca, Romero Lubambo, Nilson Matta – with Joe Locke, Harry Allen, and Jobim’s favorite singer, Maucha Adnet, as guest vocalist.
 
“Maucha and I have traveled the world with the Banda Nova,” said Jobim. “She is a marvelous singer.” “Her voice is rich and mysterious. It makes me long for the Brazilian Forest.”
 
Maucha Adnet was born in Rio de Janeiro and began singing and recording at the tender age of fifteen with the vocal group Céu da Boca. For a decade after joining Banda Nova in 1984, she performed, toured and recorded with Jobim. Their recordings include many favorites, with the Antonio Brasileiro CD honored by a Grammy Award in 1995. This isn’t Maucha’s only Grammy nod, she is the guest vocalist on Randy Brecker's Grammy Winning Into the Sun.   
 
Maucha has recorded with Dorival Caymmi, Chico Buarque, Dori Caymmi, Caetano Veloso, Toninho Horta, Mario Adnet, Joyce, Nara Leão, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Charlie Byrd, Gil Goldstein, Emily Remler, Rob Mounsey, Othelo Molineaux, Trio da Paz, Harry Allen, Slide Hampton and many others.
 
Residing in New York for many years, Maucha has been performing regularly with her own band and in shows with Claudio Roditi, Herbie Mann, Trio da Paz, Oscar Castro Neves, Eliane Elias, Mark Johnson, Slide Hampton, Randy Brecker, and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band at various venues, notably: Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Blue Note and Birdland.
 
Most recently, Maucha was the guest vocalist performing with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall.

Read more about the artists of A Night in Rio by clicking on the Trio da Paz Bio.