This year’s Malta Jazz Festival is being hailed as the most eclectic to date. Musicians from Brazil, Jamaica, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Africa will perform numbers including American jazz ...

So that morning in Mr Oliveira's office, he evidently found a cockroach waiting inside the top drawer of his desk. Something about this vision of vermin clicked inside the company man, and he decided ...

Raised in Rio de Janeiro but resident in Paris, Coelho has made waves in France with this debut album, a hybrid that deftly blends Brazilian samba, reggae rhythms and a cosmopolitan attitude. Its ...

At 81, Gil says goodbye to the city that was once his home in political exile, playing a set that hops deftly between bossa nova, tropicália, reggae and funk Political prisoner, exiled psych-rock idol ...