Influencia do Jazz w/ swingbossa - English section edit English lyrics by Paul Sonnenberg

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This is a 'trailer' for a trans-atlantic collaboration project now in process... Here swingbossa played the guitar and bass.
http://www.youtube.com/swingbossa
Full multi-lingual, instrumentally enhanced version to follow with another surprise guest!

The Influence of Jazz
(English adaptation by Paul Sonnenberg)

My poor samba's lost
Mixed up like a salad with modern influences and tossed
With no rebolado tell me what it has
Without any gingado to make you go crazy
What makes a samba wretched and limpid and lazy?
The influence of jazz.

Now they've left it for dead
And while it was dying they never quite got it into their head
The way samba balances this with that
But jazz is never happy with what it has
Until what's good is stood upon it's hat
That's the influence of jazz

Bop isn't samba
Pop isn't samba
Hip Hop isn't samba, no!

Chopped isn't samba
Cropped isn't samba
Bip! Bap! Bop!
Not with samba!

Ah, poor samba's torn
Take it to the people, the places the streets where it was born
Don't twist or distort it or turn it around
Or mix it up to make a hot new sound
And maybe one day samba can hope to rebound
From the influence of jazz.