Manfredo Fest has been played over 40 times on NTS, first on 25 April 2014. Manfredo Fest's music has been featured on 45 episodes.

Piano, Bandleader

Born 1936 in Porto Alegre, Brazil Died 08 Oct 1999 in Tampa, Florida

BIO: Manfredo Fest was one of the pioneers of bossa nova and helped define it during a long career that spanned continents. He is one of the group of Latin jazz musicians who took samba rhythms and American jazz and created a fusion that played out for four decades in his native Brazil. The pianist brought his hard-swinging sound to Minneapolis in 1967, joined the Sergio Mendes-produced Bossa…