This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the shuffling rhythms of samba, in its defiance and energy and lust for life, lies the soul of Rio de Janeiro. Samba is heard ...
BETH CARVALHO: (Singing in non-English language). PARKS: ...Your mind might jump to Brazil. Today, samba is woven into the country's cultural identity. For the past three decades, Rio de Janeiro has ...
The bossa nova wave was one of the first significant impacts on jazz since Miles Davis, Claude Thornhill and Gil Evans restored balance between the ensemble and the soloist in the late 1940s. As ...