Samba

Time for Gal Costa, a diva of the Brazilian musical scenario:

Edited by js - 20 Mar 2021 at 8:10pm

js wrote:

I just realized a lot of the people you have listed here have not been added to the site yet. I'll start working on that over the next few days.

Yes, Ivan Lins and Djavan are important names in Latin Jazz and World Music scenario.

BTW, thanks John for visiting this niche where we try to build a bridge between Jazz & Samba. Wink

Ivan Lins is a major name in the modern urban samba scenario.

Edited by js - 21 Feb 2021 at 7:48pm

Maria Bethania is a great Brazilian singer who also recorded a lot of sambas and the likes. Here she sings a Bahia-style samba composed by her brother Caetano Veloso.

Thank you for sharing this. A lot of fans of Joyce exist also in Japan. She is a really good singer.

By the way, there is a singer of famous bossa-nova in Japan. It was said that it was born in Sao Paulo and had touched music though Lisa Ono was Japanese.

What do you think?

"The clear tear on the dark skin

The clear rain on the dark night"

Tim Maia, the king of samba-soul.

Even Chet Atkins experienced the chorinho taste:

The original here (the correct name is Waldyr Azevedo):

Be welcome, Dionisio! Smile

Seja bem-vindo!

Samba and jazz are considered siblings 'cause they have the same craddle, I mean, slaves and former slaves of African descent, with their parents and grandparents coming mainly from Western Africa (today Angola, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Benim). They have brothers, sisters and cousins throughout the Americas (Cuba, Jamaica, Venezuela, etc).

Those 2 genres also evolved, developed and reached maturity at the same time, from mid to late 19th Century up to early 20th Century but later they took different ways due to the different environments they lived. Being that after the 1910s and 1920s, the American entertaining and musical culture hold sway of the world and it was natural that samba started to undergo some influences from jazz and sooner two streams appeared: one more traditional and another more receptive to external sources.

During WWII more than 1 million US soldiers passed through Brazil ih their way to North Africa and Italy and we saw a two-way interchange: new forms of jazz coming and samba, chorinho and other Brazilian rhythms going. By late 40s, Lucio Alves, Dick Farney and a very young Tom Jobim were recording what was then called "samba-jazz".

Check here this 1947 song (10 years before bossa nova officially appeared):

Here another samba-jazz, this time from 1954:

The real and final bossa nova, a kid where samba and jazz were parents only appeared in 1958, with the now famous LP named "Canção do Amor Demais", which contained this landmark by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes:

BTW, the name bossa nova (new trend) was revived in 1958 since it has been used since the 1930s by Noel Rosa, Carmen Miranda and others and initially it referred to the orchestrated urban samba in opposition to the more raw root samba from the favelas.

EDIT: although my username here is Atkingani everyone knows me by my nickname Guigo. Wink

And welcome Dionisio. Smile

Edited by Atkingani - 16 Aug 2011 at 2:55pm