Dom Salvador is a Brazilian hard-bossa legend. Despite living in New York for decades, he's not nearly as well known in the States as he should be. Hard bossa (or "samba jazz") was a movement that started in Rio de Janeiro just as the bossa nova was catching on in the early 1960s. It was an attempt to anchor the popular Brazilian form more closely to ja…
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