Soul Bossa Nova

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"Soul Bossa Nova" is an instrumental, composed by and first performed by jazz composer, arranger and record producer Quincy Jones. It first appeared on his 1962 Big Band Bossa Nova big band record on Mercury Records. Multi-reed player Rahsaan Roland Kirk played the flute solo. Incomplete personnel on the album liner notes do not specify the prominent brass players. Its upbeat mood parallels the upbeat sound of 1960s light jazz and television theme songs.

"Soul Bossa Nova" has endeared itself to producers, musicians and the public. The song appeared on the soundtrack to Woody Allen's 1969 comedy Take the Money and Run. In addition, the theme was used on a 1970s Canadian television game show, Definition. It has received attention in the 1990s and the early 2000s as well. It was sampled by the Canadian hip hop group Dream Warriors in the opening track, "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style", of their debut album And Now, the Legacy Begins in 1991. It was a theme for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.^[1] Then, it was used as the film theme for Canadian Mike Myers' Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. It was sampled in Ludacris's 2004 single, "Number One Spot" on his album The Red Light District.