Jazz has the ability to adapt, to connect with the music of other countries, and to return to its roots. Fusion, cool jazz. Caribbean, Latin, African music, bossa nova. In the 1960s, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Byrd, Stan Getz, Herbie Mann, Tony Bennett, and Quincy Jones were inspired by bossa nova. All the big names in jazz have recorded songs by Jobim: Oscar Peterson, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, and Sarah Vaughan