I love "jazz samba"—early bossa nova albums recorded by American jazz artists in the 1960s. There's an innocent, soulful sound about them, before the beat became ubiquitous. The bossa nova, of course, began in Brazilian clubs in the mid-1950s. Back then, young musicians in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo cooled off the rousing samba beat with a drier, more…
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