
@World Samba : The dance is very difficult as performed by Brazilians in comparison to formal \”ballroom\” dancing which is highly stylized. Men and women dance samba differently and together yet without touching. The dance for the women can be characterized as quick symmetrical feet movement with each foot twisting on the heel.
@Doug Nickerson : Bossa features harmonic structures reminiscent of American jazz over Samba rhythms with an independent and often chromatic melody on top. See the Jobim song, \”Desafindo,\” for an example of a chromatic melody with almost wild melodic leaps.
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@Antonio Carlos Jobim : : In \”Samba De Uma Nota So\” (music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, original words by Newton Mendonoca), the A sections are all played on one note per line (hence the name of the song). The B section is scalar and moves around in quick eighth notes.
@AllBrazilianMusic : With his brother, Paulo Sergio Valle, Marcos Valle wrote a number of hits and made his first album, \”Samba Demais\”, in 1964. He headed to the United States in the following year, where Walter Wanderley successfully recorded \”Samba de Verão\”.
- Charlie Byrd - Samba De Minha Terra02.04
- Jazz Crusaders - No Name Samba02.29
- Paul Desmond - Samba De Orfeu04.29
- Helen - Merrill 02.34
- Coleman Hawkins - Samba Para Bean05.29
- Blue Mitchell - Samba de Stacy05.58
- Dizzy Gillespie - Summer samba (samba de verao)03.22
- Bill Evans Jim Hall - Jazz samba03.12
- Cal Tjader - Ginza Samba04.55
- Stan Getz - Ebony Samba04.36
- Cannonball Adderley - Joyce’s Sambas03.12
- Pat Metheny - Sassy Samba07.55
- Eddy Harris - Lalo Schiffrin 05.33
- Grover Washington Jr. - Little Black Samba05.40
- Jive Samba02.19
- Samba de Una Nota So (One Note Samba)02.04
- So Nice (Summer Samba)03.08
- Caramba ! It’s The Samba02.48
@Wikipedia : Luis Bonfá wrote some of the original music featured in Marcel Camus’ legendary film Black Orpheus, including the numbers ‘Samba de Orfeu’ and his most famous composition, the introspective, melancholy Manhã de Carnaval (translated to English as A Day In the Life of a Fool), which has been among the top ten standards played worldwide, according to The Guinness Book of World Records.
