Veteran singer Alcione demonstrates the small group samba you might hear in a bar, Luisa Maita's "Lera-Lera" is a contemporary, radio-friendly tune and Loop B melds electronic sounds to its rhythms.
The performance gain of ENIGMA-M over SAMBA is substantially smaller (Δ F = 0.03 on average), and on two out of 10 datasets, the performance of SAMBA was slightly higher than that of ENIGMA-M (see Additional file 1 Tables S1 and S2).
On the corner is Bossanova & Companhia (00 55 2295295 8096; bossanovaecompanhia.com.br), a small music shop selling bossa nova, samba and other Brazilian music.
After she moved from Rio de Janeiro to New York nine years ago, Ms. Gilberto performed in small clubs and restaurants, keeping nostalgists happy with samba and bossa nova oldies, never hitting her stride.
In addition, local samba groups called blocos participate in free smaller parades in neighborhoods ranging from Ipanema to Vila Isabel, scheduled so that they do not conflict with the samba competition.
Holed up in the police station in the small town of Limbang, the rebel leader Salleh bin Sambas threatened to hang the hostages.
The council eventually responded, taking the side of the residents and going on to provide children's playgrounds, wooden fencing for the allotment and a small civic centre with language classes, theatre groups and a samba school.
This small, warmly lit space attracts some of Rio's best samba bands - like Teresa Cristina and Grupo Semente, who play here regularly.
Then there is the small sub-genre of gafiera - big-band, ballroom dance samba.
Mr. Gindi is taking things day by day — for example, spending some time with a Senegalese employee named Samba Dioum, who works downstairs from the shop in a small, windowless room, setting gems and resizing wedding bands.
