Sergio Mendes, a Brazilian pianist, composer and arranger whose group Brasil ’66 offered a tropical-flavored countermelody to ...

Mas Que Nada; Pretty World; The Fool On The Hill; Scarborough Fair; Bim - Bom; With A Little Help From My Friends; Agua De Beber; Festa; The Look Of Love; Triste; ...

W hen Brazilian composer, producer, and arranger Sergio Mendes passed away in September, the music world lost an icon. Mendes, both with and without his renowned group Brasil ’66, was ...

A name that’s synonymous with boss nova, Sérgio Mendes was one of the first Brazilian exports to bring the genre into ...

Called Brasil '66, it featured two American singers ... but his commercial fortunes waned until the 1983 comeback album, Sergio Mendes, gave him the biggest chart hit of his career - a cover ...

Two years later, he collaborated with American trumpeter Herb Alpert for their album Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66. The album included Brazilian-flavoured covers of Western ...

“Sergio Mendes was my brother from another country,” trumpeter Herb Alpert wrote on Facebook. “He was a true friend and an extremely talented musician who took Brazilian music in all its ...