[Dixielandjazz] Yet another early Brazilian music style that might be of interest to this list!

[David Richoux]

Hi all,

While doing more research on Choro (getting deep into the one book  
written in English I have found on that subject)  I came across  
another long developing Brazilian music form that is not very well  
known in the USA - Frevo! (Boiling!)

  From what I have read, it originally developed out of military brass  
band style music from North East Brazil 100 years ago - marches and  
polkas, mostly - but now it is a cooking hot carnival jazz dance!  One  
interesting tradition is the use of the Umbrella (furled or open) in  
dancing to this music.

<http://cliquemusic.uol.com.br/en/Styles/Styles.asp?Status=MATERIA&Nu_Materia=898 
 > has some interesting info, but I have not found any early  
recordings yet. There are some more modern versions of Frevo on  
Youtube, but I will post any older recordings I can find. Again, I am  
sure that some other members of this list will have better references  
and links than I have found so far!


Anyway,

Happy Gnu Ear and all!

Dave Richoux