Nebulosa
Context
Composition by Rio pianist Tenório Jr., on Embalo, the only album recorded under his name, released in 1964 on RGE. Played by a piano-bass-drums trio, it illustrates the samba-jazz of the Beco das Garrafas, blending samba, bebop, and bossa nova. Reissued by Mr Bongo in 2017, the album took on special significance after the musician's disappearance in Buenos Aires in 1976, when he was abducted and killed by Argentina's military repression.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Bossa nova, jazz samba. Among the origins and influences of Bossa nova, jazz samba: Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban.