In 1962, Quincy Jones was already a respected jazz arranger and conductor, having worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, and Frank Sinatra. His album Big Band Bossa Nova, and specifically this tune Soul Bossa Nova, capitalized on the early 1960s American fascination with Latin rhythms, especially the Brazilian bossa nova wave led by artists like João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim.
It also showcased Jones' skill at fusing American jazz with international rhythms.
It's catchy, innovated, instantly recognizable, and will be the song in my head as I walk into work this Monday morning.
I mean, it's either this, or some kind of death-march durge. And I much more prefer this.
Yeah, baby, YEAH!
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