Monday was Brazilian singer/songwriter Jorge Ben Jor’s Chicago debut, but most of the audience at HotHouse had undoubtedly absorbed his music before he took the stage. The sold-out crowd of 300 showed ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Brazilian legend began his career with “Mas Que Nada,” a bossa nova classic which was since re-recorded by virtually everyone in the movement. During the Seventies, he helped to revolutionize pop ...

Jorge Ben Jor's appearance Tuesday night at the Birchmere Band Stand stage didn't start off as one would expect from a Brazilian music legend. Walking quickly onstage and jumping right into a ...

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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 ...

Thumbnail sketches of Brazilian music usually emphasize bossa nova legends (Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim) or tropicalistas (Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil), a tendency that unfortunately neglects ...