This is not the quick ripoff of the bossa nova craze of the early 1960s that you might expect from the cover.
Released on the ultra-cheap Diplomat label in 1962, Bossa Nova: The New Sound of Jazz from South America features some well-known jazzmen who apparently made the recording when funds were tight. According to a couple of online blogs (including the excellent Unearthed in the Atomic Attic), the personnel includes a young Kenny Barron on piano and Bill Barron on sax, with a rhythm section of Ron Carter on bass and Charlie Persip on drums.
Although the music is great the recording quality is substandard, to put it mildly. The sample track, Bossa Nova Blues, is in stereo, sort of. Sounds like fake stereo to me, which leads me to suspect that the session (date unknown) was done in mono.
Bossa Nova Blues
Much of the information on this session surfaced during an interview that Kenny Barron did with jazzreview.com in 2001.
The album has never been released on CD and is not available as a download.
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