Given the extent to which football and music are woven into Brazil’s self-image — not to mention its evenings and its weekends — it should be no great surprise that the two threads have frequently ...

The pantheon of Brazilian music greats is as long and difficult to enter as that of any country in the world. And among this list of names, from Caetano Veloso to Gal Costa to Milton Nascimento and ...

Jorge Duílio Lima Menezes (born March 22, 1939) is a Brazilian popular musician, performing under the stage name Jorge Ben Jor since the 1980s, though commonly known by his former stage name Jorge Ben ...

Sam Beam (who records as Iron & Wine) admits he gets lost when confronted with the whole “favorite album of all time” idea. Moods change. Lists get altered. Favorites come and go. To help with this ...

If Brazilian superstar Jorge Ben Jor had only contributed his deliriously propulsive 4/4 samba beat to the world's rhythmic lexicon he would have fully justified his vast international following. But ...

Sometimes Jorge Ben Jor thinks big. One of the Brazilian composer’s most famous songs honors the Taj Mahal. Other times, he thinks small. His “Spyro Gyra” is the most rousing tune ever written about ...

I’m an investigative reporter for The Times’s Business desk. I’m on leave writing a book on the U.S. tax system. All the solo writing means I’m listening to even more music than usual. (And watching ...