Ponta de Areia
Context
Opening track of "Native Dancer," recorded on September 12, 1974 at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles and released by Columbia in January 1975. Composed by Milton Nascimento and Fernando Brant, the song opens an album that blends jazz, rock, funk and Brazilian rhythms, and which Esperanza Spalding and Maurice White, among others, cite as an influence.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Clube da Esquina (Minas Gerais), Brazilian instrumental music, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of Clube da Esquina: Bossa nova, jazz samba.