Bossa Antigua is the title track of Paul Desmond’s 1965 jazz album Bossa Antigua. Desmond wrote the tune and the session features Jim Hall on guitar with Connie Kay on drums and Eugene Wright on bass, recorded in 1964 in New York. The album blends cool jazz with Brazilian rhythms, reflecting the early 1960s Bossa Nova wave that followed Stan Getz’s jazz samba hits. The title is a playful nod to bossa nova, with Antigua also pointing to an island popular with tourists. The track runs about 4 minutes and 43 seconds and the album was released by RCA Victor on LPM 3320, alongside other Desmond originals and standards such as The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.
