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...Metrorail. Part of the culinary empire of chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, the restaurant is a temple to gorgeous, delicious food. Golden, ruby red and candy-striped beets brighten a simple salad; Texas blue crabs star in a sublime crab cake. For a more casual, festive evening, try Bossa, near the Main Street Square stop, which offers zesty pan-Latin fare and has a hopping bar scene. Afterward, stride down the block and across the street to Sambuca Jazz Cafe on Texas Street, where you can hear live jazz and sample a California-heavy wine list...
Tropicalism emerged out of the fusion of bossa nova and samba, with varied international influences—the Beatles, Miles Davis, and James Brown, as well as urban African rhythms from Senegal, South Africa, and Nigeria. The result was a unique sound that profoundly altered the cultural landscape of Brazil...
...www.radiocubik.com Immerse yourself in the diverse and vibrant music of Latin America. The Radio Cubik Network streams three tropical channels: Bossa Brazil covers the carnival sounds of Rio, Radio Tango the traditional dance of Buenos Aires, while Radio Salsa blasts out more contemporary rhythms from the Spanish-speaking Americas...
...office, Mann has attracted a devoted following from the 'lay and fringe public' with a unique amalgam of jazz and ethnic music. Last week in Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its typical jazz potpourris: gently infectious bossa nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof, a brooding interpretation of a classical piano piece written in 1888 by French composer Erik Satie ... Mann's flute is a sparrow in the treetops, lightly flitting and chirping above...
...HOUSE ANSIEDADE BUILT. An original movement thesis piece by Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03. In Brazil, the party never stops, and there are samba, bossa nova, capoeira, caipirinhas and palm trees. Racism? Heck no. Americans? Welcomed with open arms. But there’s more than meets the eye. Reality and fantasy collide to produce disillusionment, and this play combines folklore, theater, music and movement in relation to cultural anxiety in Brazil and in the United States. Friday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, Mar. 1, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Free...