Bossa Nova

The term Latin Jazz has many definitions to it but it includes a great diversity of musicians and styles. Jazz was first known as the product of interactions between African Americans, Mexicans and Caribbean musicians in states like New Orleans, New York City and Havana and Cuba. These states were popular for music like Jazz with a Latin mixture added to it. This type of music became very popular during the 1940’s and is still very popular now. Latin Jazz got people’s attention and got them up and dancing and set the mood to being fun and to have a good time. Now Bossa Nova is a little different it is Brazilian Music that wasn’t popular until the 1950-1960. Bossa Nova literally means new trend and is known today as one of the most well known
One is Laurindo Almeida, he was a groundbreaking guitarist who fused Jazz and Latin styles throughout his lifetime. He was known for creating the elementa “Jazz Samba” style of bossa nova through his early recordings. He was one of the first artist to receive a grammy award for classical and Jazz music. Now this musician did Latin Jazz but he also played Bossa Nova and people loved how he changed his genre and went with the flow and made it fun to listen to. The aspect of Latin Jazz is how the emphasis of the percussion and Cuban rhythm is what makes the music pop and get’s people up and dancing. With Bossa Nova it has a specific swing that it has to follow that makes it difficult for non-native players to quiet capture. To truly understand Bossa Nova you have to understand Samba, and with Samba it creates the fundamental beat which gives it’s brazilian music it’s “Brazilian-ness. Also Bossa Nova has a unique feel to the music and by being nuanced it means you can walk a fine line between “swinging cool’ bossa rhythms or being plain cheesy. With both of these genres though they are similar and different at the same time and have their own characteristics to show