
Brazil. Samba. Samba before Bossa. Samba. After Bossa, Samba. Always Samba. More of us have heard Bossa Nova more than Samba, especially if we listen to jazz, but the "new beat" was based on a version of the eternal beat. Samba. Brazil's heartbeat, fueling the people's musical soul. Samba is music when Brazilians have nothing else. Samba is everything to people with little or nothing else. On the hillsides down to the seashore. Samba. In Rio the Samba schools are the community glue, the net that every musician sooner or later [...]