The Nova Trio was an acoustic jazz group in Madison, Wisconsin with Connie McElrone on vocals, Sargie Goode on percussion and Sam Hokin on guitar.

The trio played a mix of bossa nova standards, original tunes written by Sam and/or his wife Carla Shedivy, and swing and ballad standards.

A bossa tune, "Blue Morning", that Carla and I wrote, appeared on the original rec.music.bluenote sampler CD. The chart for the full tune can be found here. If you are listening to embedded MIDI, you are listening to the tune right now.

• a short WAV fragment (1.1 MB, 12 seconds)
• the entire song in MPEG-3 format (2.9 MB)

Here is a demo CD of the Nova Trio, doing original Hokin/Shedivy tunes as well as some Jobim standards. This version of "Blue Morning" is in a lower key than the one recorded for the rec.music.bluenote sampler.

1. Blue Morning (Hokin/Shedivy)
2. Can't Help Loving You (Shedivy)
3. The Last Tear (Shedivy)
4. Let's Take a Chance (on Romance) (Shedivy)
5. Chega de Saudade (Jobim)
6. One-Note Samba (Jobim)
7. Triste (Sad) (Jobim)
8. Wave (Jobim)