Bossa Nova

Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music. Since its birth, the Bossa nova movement contributed with its style and a number of songs to the standard jazz repertoire. In Brazil, to do something with "bossa" is to do it with particular charm and natural flair, as in an innate ability, and refers to any new "trend" or "fashionable wave" within the artistic beach-culture of late 1950s Rio de Janeiro. The term finally became known and widely used to refer to a new music style, a fusion of samba and jazz, when the now famous creators of "bossa nova" referred to their new style of work as "a bossa nova", as in "the new thing."