Bossa Nova 'the dance of love' That's at least how this dance will always be remembered by all who sang the ever-popular hit tune of the early '60s 'The Dance of Love'
A kind of Brazilian jazz, popular in the 1950's and early 1960's, featuring a moderately slow tempo and complex harmony Leaders of bossa nova included Tom Jobim
The music, born of a marriage of Brazilian rhythms and American Jazz The dance, which is said to have originated at Carnegie Hall in 1961, is based on the slower, more subtle Salon Samba and features either type of Clave Beat or a Jazz Samba in 4/4 time
A suave, romantic style which started in the 1950s, replacing samba as the national music Typically, bossa nova (which means "new way" in Portuguese) is very mellow and laid-back, and very, very cool In the early 1960s, bossa nova rhythms became popular with jazz and pop musicians in the U S and Europe See: Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim