Forró is dance music with its own family of peppy rhythms, most of them driven — like the Cajun music of Louisiana — by an accordion and a very busy triangle.
Bembeya Jazz played easy-rolling rumbas, peppy six-beat rhythms and modal tunes with Manding roots.
Nine of those musicians are drummers who boom out the strutting, marching rhythms of Bahian sambareggae and the peppy, aerobics-speed beat of axé, Bahia's new export.
Ogans is an 11-member band from Bahia, and nine of those musicians are drummers who boom out the strutting, marching rhythms of Bahian sambareggae and the peppy, aerobics-speed beat of axe, Bahia's new export.
Ogans is a band of drummers from Bahía, Brazil, who boom out the strutting, marching rhythms of Bahían sambareggae and the peppy, aerobics-speed beat of axé, Bahía's new export.
Ogans is an 11-member band from Bahia, Brazil, and 9 of those musicians are drummers who boom out the strutting, marching rhythms of Bahian sambareggae and the peppy, aerobics-speed beat of axé, Bahia's new export.
Ogans is an 11-member band from Bahia, Brazil, and nine of those musicians are drummers who boom out the strutting, marching rhythms of Bahian sambareggae and the peppy, aerobics-speed beat of axé, Bahia's new export.
Ogans is an 11-member band from Bahia, Brazil, and nine of those musicians are drummers who boom out the strutting, marching rhythms of Bahian samba reggae and the peppy, aerobics-speed beat of axé.
Along the way, among the peppiest and/or sexiest rhythms are: zouk (a brassy contender for the most sexiest) from French-speaking islikes like Martinique and Guadeloupe; jwe from St. Lucia; spouge from Barbados; big drum (using drums typically made from rum kegs) from St . Vincentand the Grenadines; and a mish-mash of zouk, calypso and reggae from Grenada.
On its 2005 debut, "Calle 13," the duo was already looking well beyond the peppy but repetitive beat of the Puerto Rican reggaet?hey started with, and their 2007 album, "Residente o Visitante," picked up rhythms and collaborators from across Latin America.
The Casa Lomans' role in the history of jazz remains controversial, but it is clear that they were, at the very least, the first white orchestra to try to swing, though their rhythms were more often peppy than swinging.
