Sérgio Mendes, a Brazilian jazz and hard-bossa pianist-arranger who relocated to the U.S. in 1964 and launched his Brasil '65 and '66 pop groups, kicking off the sunshine pop movement, died in Los Angeles on September 5 of complications from long Covid. He was 83. [Photo above of Sergio Mendes, left, and Antonio Carlos Jobim in New York in 1964]
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