Sambas

I presume it is because the music has been composed by a Brazilian, Berna Ceppas, who combined bossa nova and sambas, with funk and electro music. ❋ Jay Weston (2012)

The Group, which made brilliant use of Caribbean rhythms calypsos and sambas, played nothing but extreme joy. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

Where Cole's voice, on boleros and sambas especially, was among the silkiest sounds known to man, Mr. Murray has made his ensemble at once as rough as sandpaper and as smooth as satin. ❋ Will Friedwald (2012)

Euro and American pop have no sway outside of there and the far east, Latin America and Africa have completely different pop musics, more R and B influenced with a cross current back and forth with the blues, sambas and reggae too. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a USO hostess fed up with congas, rumbas and sambas, she performed a rollicking number called "South America, Take It Away." ❋ Emma Brown (2011)

Len basically says he's the barometer against which all future male celeb sambas will be measured. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The group plays boleros, fast dances, sambas, ballads (and even "My Favorite Things" on its new album, "Pucusana") in a highly sympatico blend of North American improv a nd South American beats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Se Tu M'ami themes, for the piano and cello, turn into cinematic laments, and if the Modern Jazz Quartet-like toying with sambas and waltzes on Wesley's Gavotte is bland, the outbursts of Hammond swing, bass and vibes on the Bach pieces are the opposite. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To see him in person, as I had a chance to do recently at New York's Terminal 5, is to see a sinuous, warm, joyous show in which Veloso's vocals and sambas are backed up by a young, edgy band. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Veloso has a new CD out called "Zii E Zie," trans sambas (ph) and he arranged to talk to us on his very last day in the U.S. after finishing his tour in Miami. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here they do a set of sambas with a gafiera-style big band, which is a rare configuration these days, adding the occasional electronic sounds as a jaunty tip of the porkpie to modernity. ❋ Marty Lipp (2010)

Once underway, the blocos slowly make their way down the streets, playing marchas and sambas, with crowds trailing behind them or lining the parade routes. ❋ Chris McGowan (2010)

There were cha-chas, rumbas and sambas Sunday night and then there were the dropsies, the oopsies and the death stares. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some schools have even become veritable billboards, spinning sambas to order. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Establishing shot of C.B. here now, dressed much like he is on the cover of Wonderlost #1: jeans, t-shirt, sambas, Rossignol cap, and black and yellow JB soccer jacket. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These people are really sharp musicians, equally at home with bluegrass, jazz, sambas, klezmer, the Great American Songbook, and the classical repertoire. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2007)

That happened in those places, those other places where people didn't speak English, ate strange spicy foods, had dictators or Communists or sambas or goas. ❋ Readersguide (2003)