bossa nova Archive
Laurindo Almeida & Bud Shank – Brazilliance – Pacific Jazz/Pure Pleasure Records
This path-setting 1954 release of a 1953 recording is regarded as the first bossa nova jazz album to be released in North America.
Black Orpheus, Blu-ray (1959/2010)
All the participants are excellent, the cinematography captures the wild spirit of Carnival, and the wonderful music by Jobim and Bonfa is of course what launched the bossa nova craze.