:Blue Bossa

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| name = Blue Bossa

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| type = instrumental

| artist = Kenny Dorham

| album = Page One

| released = {{Start date|1963}}

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| genre = Jazz

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| composer = Kenny Dorham

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"Blue Bossa" is an instrumental jazz composition by Kenny Dorham. It was introduced on Joe Henderson's 1963 album Page One.{{cite web |title=Page One > Overview |last=Yanow |first=Scott |author-link=Scott Yanow |publisher=Allmusic |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r140585|pure_url=yes}} |accessdate=2009-08-10}} A blend of hard bop and bossa nova, the tune was possibly influenced by Dorham's visit to the Rio de Janeiro Jazz Festival in 1961.{{cite book |title=Texan jazz |url=https://archive.org/details/texanjazz0000olip |url-access=registration |last=Oliphant |first=Dave |year=1996 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=0-292-76045-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/texanjazz0000olip/page/257 257]}}{{cite book |title=Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State |last=Oliphant |first=Dave |year=2007 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-71496-0 |page=5}} The tune has since been recorded numerous times by different artists, making it a jazz standard.{{cite book |title=All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music |last1=Bogdanov |first1=Vladimir |last2=Woodstra |first2=Chris |last3=Erlewine |first3=Stephen Thomas |authorlink3=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |year=2002 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=0-87930-717-X |page=344}}

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|width=|caption = First eight measures of Blue Bossa{{Cite book |last1 = Dorham |first1 = Kenny |author-link1 = Kenny Dorham |contribution=Blue Bossa |title=The Real Book. C Instruments |date=2006 |publisher=Hal Leonard |isbn=978-0-634-06038-0 |edition=6 |volume=1 |location=Milwaukee, WI|url=https://archive.org/details/The_Real_Book_Sixth_Edition_volume_1/page/n48/mode/1up|page=50}}|align=center

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