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An international collaboration with Jolanda, Marcelo, and Adam (swingbossa). Chicago, Switzerland, and Austin join together to salute the music of Brasil!

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Influencia do Jazz
(Carlos Lyra)

Pobre samba meu
Foi se misturando se modernizando, e se perdeu
E o rebolado cadê?, não tem mais
Cadê o tal gingado que mexe com a gente
Coitado do meu samba mudou de repente
Influência do jazz

Quase que morreu
E acaba morrendo, está quase morrendo, não percebeu
Que o samba balança de um lado pro outro
O jazz é diferente, pra frente pra trás
E o samba meio morto ficou meio torto
Influência do jazz

No afro-cubano, vai complicando
Vai pelo cano, vai
Vai entortando, vai sem descanso
Vai, sai, cai... no balanço!

Pobre samba meu
Volta lá pro morro e pede socorro onde nasceu
Pra não ser um samba com notas demais
Não ser um samba torto pra frente pra trás
Vai ter que se virar pra poder se livrar
Da influência do jazz

The Influence of Jazz
(English adaptation by Paul Sonnenberg)

My poor samba's lost
Mixed up like a salad with modern influences and tossed
With no rebolado tell me what it has
Without any gingado to make you go crazy
What makes a samba wretched and limpid and lazy?
The influence of jazz.

They've left it for dead
And as it was dying they never quite got it into their head
The way samba balances this and that
But jazz is never happy with what it has
Until what's good is stood upon it's hat
That's the influence of jazz

Bop isn't samba
Pop isn't samba
Hip Hop isn't samba, no!

Chopped isn't samba
Cropped isn't samba
Bip! Bap! Bop!
Not with samba!

Ah, poor samba's torn
Take it to the place, to the people, the streets where it was born
Don't twist or distort it or turn it around
Don't mix it up to make a hot new sound
And maybe one day samba can hope to rebound
From the influence of jazz.