Sentence examples for samba jazz from inspiring English sources
In the main lounge, Mr. Matta, a bassist from Brazil, leads his polished Samba Jazz group, featuring Helio Alves on piano and Roni Ben-Hur on guitar.
Some were ballads and some rode danceable rhythms from her country and beyond: bossa nova, samba, jazz, Brazilianized funk and rock.
As a young man, Gilberto developed a novel sound, fusing samba, jazz and traditional Brazilian rhythms, carried by skillful guitar technique.
This Sunday the performers will be Brock Mumford, a jazz, rock and cabaret performer, and Cocktail Angst, a group that combines mambo, samba, jazz and swing.
Her band played lean, percussive syncopations tinged with samba, jazz or Cape Verdean funaná; her voice, dusky and leisurely, glided over the bumpy rhythms with sultry aplomb, like a plush hovercraft.
(Chinen) DUDUKA DA FONSECA SEXTET (Through Sunday) On his new album, "Samba Jazz in Black & White" (Zoho), the percussionist Duduka Da Fonseca devises an ebullient small-group concept inspired by the sounds of his native Brazil.
But jazz fans got their fix in the brass-blasting modern-swing of Djangobop, and to some extent in the samba-jazz encore on Reinhardt's swoony classic Nuages.
"From him I learned all of the modern harmonies that Brazilian music began to use in the bossa nova, samba-jazz and instrumental songs," the pianist and arranger Jo Donato said Friday.
(Chinen) Trio da Paz and Friends (Friday through Sunday) Effervescence comes easily to Trio da Paz, a samba-jazz cooperative consisting of Romero Lubambo on guitar, Nilson Matta on bass and Duduka Da Fonseca on drums.
At 7 30 and 9 30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $20. (Chinen) Trio da Paz and Friends (Friday through Sunday, and Tuesday through Sept. 8) Effervescence comes easily to Trio da Paz, a samba-jazz cooperative consisting of Romero Lubambo on guitar, Nilson Matta on bass and Duduka Da Fonseca on drums.
(Chinen) Trio da Paz: The Music of Stan Getz & João Gilberto (Friday through Sunday) Effervescence comes easily to Trio da Paz, a samba-jazz cooperative consisting of Romero Lubambo on guitar, Nilson Matta on bass and Duduka Da Fonseca on drums.
