Azymuth were three Rio studio musicians who had spent the early 1970s as session players for everyone from Jorge Ben to Elis Regina. When they recorded as a trio, they invented samba-jazz — acoustic bossa nova rhythms colliding with funk bass and electric keyboards. Light As a Feather arrived in 1979 and became their international breakthrough. Jazz Carnival opens the album on a samba rhythm that doubles as a funk groove, a synthesis Brazilian musicians had been building toward since the 1960s.
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