Rutgers Jazz Lab Band: “Jazz & The Music of Brazil”

The development of musical style in Brazil can be described as an example of cultural creolization in the New World. The country’s rich history of music and dance is the result of a complex intertwining of several ethnic traditions. The “blending” of these various influences from groups representing the Western and non-Western Worlds has manifested itself in the creation of not only a unique cultural sensibility, but original idioms of musical ex...