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Música instrumental brasileira: um encontro de musicalidades
Brazilian Jazz and Friction of Musicalities
This article is a brief ethnography of Brazilian instrumental popular music,
termed música instrumental in Brazil, which is known in the international universe of
Brazilian popular music and not as a national adaptation of jazz, as well as search for
its main characteristics and socio-cultural nexus in contrast with North American jazz.
The specific goal is to show how there is constant reference in Brazilian jazz to North
American jazz, mainly in the realm of improvisations, and that these references mark
the tense encounter between Brazilian and North American musicalities, a founding
characteristic of this music. I begin by explaining the meaning of the term música instrumental, and then I trace a brief historical overview of Brazilian jazz and draft a
definition of the musical field through its lines. I then explain the use of the term
bebop, which appears frequently in the verb form bebopear [to bebop], and in the
following section I demonstrate the correlations between Brazilian jazz and bebop.
Finally, in order to account for the characteristics of Brazilian jazz, I develop the idea
I do not intend to write a history of Brazilian jazz, but begin an exploration of
the theme in an attempt to gather preliminary data to help construct Brazilian jazz as
an object of anthropological study. This paper is based on ethnographic data obtained
in interviews and jam sessions with musicians active in the São Paulo scene, which is
one of the most significant in Brazil (Piedade 1999b). I refer to these musicians, as
well as their audience, as natives, in the sense of people who belong to a musical
community. The results of this paper are also the fruit of my own musical background
and professional experience as a musician in this scene.
Instead of “Brazilian jazz,” the designation of this musical genre in Brazil is
música instrumental brasileira [Brazilian instrumental music]. Naturally, in Brazil
the word “instrumental” also means the music composed for and played exclusively
with instruments--that is, music that does not have any lyrics or text--, which includes
genres from Western European art music. música instrumental is
the label used by the natives for the specific corpus of musical productions of
Brazilian jazz. This way, the category MPB, música popular brasileira [popular
Brazilian music], taken as the heterogeneous collection of popular urban musical
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productions in Brazil that has been showing stability at least from the 1960s on, is
taken here as a supergenre comprised of categories such as música instrumental,
national rock/blues, bossa nova, pagode, sertaneja music, samba, forró, axé music,
lambada, etc. Since there are many types of instrumental music, the natives are aware
of the inadequateness of the term música instrumental, and for them the correct
designation would be música popular instrumental brasileira [Brazilian instrumental
popular music]. The fact is, it is called música instrumental.
Meanwhile, in magazines and stores outside of Brazil “Brazilian jazz” is used,
and especially in the USA Brazilian jazz is frequently regarded as a sub-field of Latin
jazz, a generic label that also designates Afro-Caribbean genres such as salsa.
However, this wide use of the term Latin jazz that places Brazil in the Latin world is
not shared in Brazil, where natives use the word Latin to refer solely to Afro-Cuban
rhythms. This rejection of Brazil’s Latin qualities reveals a contrastive construction of
cultural identities, hiding what in reality is a common ground, as for example in the
idea of mestizo (Quintero-Rivera 2000).ilar phenomenon is expressed by the
natives’ refusal to call música instrumental Brazilian jazz. According to many of
them, as a category jazz is too heavy and does not encompass all the musical diversity
of música instrumental. However, for purposes of international promotion, the label
Brazilian jazz is accepted, especially since música instrumental is also an incorrect
The ambiguous nature of the term música instrumental is symptomatic of the
actual uncertainty surrounding the dimension of its musical field and its historical
roots. In fact, most natives recognize the fluidity of the genre and ask themselves
what unites musicians as dissimilar as Egberto Gismonti, Hermeto Pascoal, Toninho
Horta, and so many others. Despite this uncertainty, there is a shared tacit knowledge
and a lived experience that enable the natives to recognize what is música instrumental, so much so that they are constantly seeking legitimation of their identity
in the face of MPB and jazz, two musical traditions that are very close to música
According to native interpretations, Brazilian jazz originated in the beginning
of the 20th century, with the emergence of an instrumental genre of Portuguese
influence known as choro [weeping], which to this day is played and is greatly
appreciated (Cazes 1998), and widely considered by natives as the ancestor of
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Brazilian jazz. The history of choro, or chorinho,involves interesting facts for this
discussion, and therefore I shall relate a brief history until the advent of bossa nova in
the 1950s, when Brazilian jazz most clearly emerges, differentiating itself from
In Brazil, by the second half of the 19th century, there was a rich repertoire of
European instrumental dance music, such as polka, mazurka and schottisch, rhythms
that were blended and transformed in the national genres of the time, such as maxixe
and lundu. At this point, the word choro simply meant a typical musical formation
known as trio de pau e corda [wood and string trio], which performed maxixe in an
improvisational manner (Reily 2000, 6); later then, choro came to mean a way of
playing, and finally, around the 1930s, it was named the musical genre. Even though
it emerged among the popular classes, choro established a strong connection with art
music through figures such as Ernesto Nazareth and Chiquinha Gonzaga, who
composed fully scored choros. The bourgeoisie started to appreciate this choro
dressed as art music, and began to see it as an expression of Brazilianess, for it was
eager at this time for symbols of national identity to counteract France’s cultural
prominence. Chorinho established itself around musicians such as Pixinguinha and
Garoto, who paved the road for other instrumental music to conquer the public’s
tastes. It should be noted that the origins of chorinho and samba are deeply
interwoven, and the consolidation of chorinho as an individual genre is perhaps
related to the great shift in style that occurred within samba in the 1930s, when the
old samba-maxixe, dating from the mid-1800s, gave way to the more “whitened”
samba of the sambistas of Estácio (Sandroni 2001).
In the 1920s, more precisely in 1922, during the Semana de Arte Moderna
[Week of Modern Art] in São Paulo–a fundamental moment of modernism in
Brazilian art (Wisnik 1977),--the band Pixinguinha e os oito Batutas was returning
from a sojourn in Paris, during which it seems to have fallen in love with jazz. While
jazz was exploding commercially in the United States, in Brazil Batutas was heavily
criticisized for having adopted a jazzy style, for having been “contaminated” by jazz
(Menezes Bastos 2000, 20; Vianna 1995, 117). I take this to be the first important
moment of friction of musicalities in Brazilian jazz. Already present at this time is an
Adornian and pessimist critical view of popular music, one that seems to endure
throughout the history of MPB and is based on the idea of musical autonomy
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(Middleton 1990, 41-45). The persistent view of some critics, who relied on what
Hamm calls the modernist narrative of authenticity (1995), also stems from this.
According to this narrative, folk music and music from different peoples is more
valuable depending on its degree of non-contamination: the presumption here is that a
culture is only authentic when is does not mix with others, leading to the notion that a
commercial product and authenticity are irreconcilable. By the end of the decade,
important intellectuals such as Gilberto Freyre were criticizing jazz and the influence
of North American culture on Brazil (Vianna 1995, 182), in the same tone in which
José Ramos Tinhorão would later criticize bossa nova (see below).
In sum, the natives consider chorinho to be the great ancestor of Brazilian
jazz, even though the latter only properly emerged in the heart of musical experiences
of the bossa nova period. The natives have much respect for chorinho performers,
especially great masters such as Pixinguinha, yet they explain that contemporary
chorinho has become too much of a conservative genre in general terms. The natives
accept this fact because they attribute to chorinho the role of a “root music,” which
must be preserved from exotic influences. However, this native thinking hides a
certain rivalry that results from the chorinho musicians’ self-conscious strategy to
stay away from the jazz influence, which touches on several symbolic points to which
the natives are sensitive. According to native discourse, even though chorinho’s
symbolic “advantage” of being “root” music and not having undergone the influence
of jazz causes a certain tension between chorinho and Brazilian jazz, the natives
absorb a lot from choro’s melodic patterns. This is very interesting when seen as a
rebirth of the old concept of choro as a way of playing, prevalent in the early 20th
century. Personally, I think that what confers the seemingly conservative face of
chorinho is actually a structural characteristic of this genre, which evokes nostalgia,
simplicity, virtuosity, and cosmopolitanism. I think this thematic stability makes
chorinho subject to eclipse phases, which in fact occurred from the 1940s, when it
scarcely developed, until the 1970s, when choro festivals started boosting the re-
emergence of the genre. Currently chorinho is undergoing an impressive revival,
mainly in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Brasília, with the emergence of many young
and new artists, such as the groups Trio Madeira Brasil, Arranca-toco, trio Brasília
Brasil, and artists such as Maurício Carrilho and Yamandú Costa, as well as
specialized record label Kuarup Discos. The music of art music composer Radamés
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Gnatalli plays a central role in this rekindling of choro. Contemporary choro explores
new repertoires, however attempting to maintain the traditional sound and typical
distance from jazz. It has been a separate musical genre from Brazilian jazz since at
least the 1950s, yet despite this differentiations choro musicality is an important
element in the compositions and improvisations of Brazilian jazz. This musicality is
primarily enacted through melodic characteristics, which emerge in the typical
shaping of the melody and use of appoggiatura and arpeggios, often in scherzando
In the 1930s the repressive dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas began, lasting until
1945 and marked by nationalist discourse. In this so-called radio era, many groups--
refered to as regionais--showed up to play live for radio broadcasts. During this
period the Rio de Janeiro carnival was glorified, helping to transform samba, until
then rejected and execrated by the elites, into Brazil's national music, through the
interaction and dialogue between Afro-Brazilian musicians, and intellectuals and
artists of the city of Rio de Janeiro, a fact which Vianna terms “the mystery of samba”
(1995). Meanwhile, the presence of American culture in Brazil was intensified during
this period, mainly through movies and dance music. Brazilian samba was
represented in the USA primarily by the figure of Carmem Miranda and Bando da Lua, interestingly exhibiting a fairly Mexicanized image. Carmem created a particular
view of Brazilianess, strongly criticized in Brazil (Vianna 1995, 129-131) because of
the anti-American climate disseminated by the nationalist thought of the 1940s.
While, since the end of the 1920s, many dance bands in major Brazilian cities
had played fox-trot and other North American music in dance salons (Kiefer 1979,
60-61), in the 1930s they started to play Brazilian rhythms, such as chorinho, for
dancing. This tradition leaded to the gafieira bands of the 1940s that played
instrumental music based on arrangements of popular songs and instrumental
compositions that were different from both fox-trot and chorinho. Despite exploring
Brazilian rhythms, many of these bands began calling themselves jazz bands, but
because the term gave the band a modern touch, and not because it was musically
influenced by jazz (Cazes 1998, 61). Despite its huge success, this instrumental dance
music left the scene in the 1960s and only returned, mainly in São Paulo, in the mid-
1980s, with the revival of the gafieira (Piedade 1999b).
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Another important fact of the 1940s was the avant-garde art music group
surrounding German composer Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, called Música Viva,
which represented a great renovation of the language of the previous nationalist
paradigm, headed by Villa-Lobos. Popular music and atonalism profoundly
influenced Música Viva composers such as Claudio Santoro and Guerra-Peixe, and
the gafieira maestros K-chimbinho and Severino Araújo were among their students,
as well as future exponents of bossa nova, such as Moacyr Santos and Antônio Carlos
Jobim. Yet this was an avant-garde movement, and at the time much nationalistic
criticism was directed against its advances, and Brazilian art music was marked in the
following decade by the outcome of a new nationalism (Neves 1981, 77-106).
During the post-war years, nationalism was on the rise in many countries,
accompanied by an impressive consolidation of North American jazz in the
international scenario, and at this time many nationalized jazz styles emerged. In the
midst of this scene, bossa nova was born and artists such as João Gilberto and
Antônio Carlos Jobim appeared, constituting a landmark in Brazilian and world
popular music (see Castro 1990). At the end of the 1950s and early 1960s, names such
as Laurindo de Almeida, Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz made bossa nova known to the
North American audience. While the world was discovering bossa nova, an entire
generation of instrumentalists profoundly influenced by jazz got involved with this
music, creating mostly instrumental bossa nova trios, such as the Milton Banana trio,
Tamba trio, Jongo trio, and bigger groups, such as J.T. Meireles and the Copa 5, all
these groups having frequently played at bars and jazz clubs, such as Bottle’s and
Farney’s bar in Rio de Janeiro. West coast jazz was heavily appreciated and played,
and in fact its influence on bossa nova is undeniable, even though the “cool” element
of bossa nova may have an older connection with the 19th century modinhas in Brazil
(Menezes Bastos 1999a). While João Gilberto’s famous guitar beat came from the
rhythmic patterns of samba (Garcia 1999), bossa nova harmonies were derived not
only from jazz, but were also congruent with Brazilian urban music of the 1930s and
1940s, especially the dance band arrangements (Pinheiro 1992). Despite this, in the
1960s bossa nova was strongly criticized, accused of being elitist and resulting from
the Americanization of MPB (especially by Tinhorão 1974, 1998). This was
counteracted by critics who afirmed the modernity of bossa (Campos 1974) and by
the tropicalismo (Veloso 1997) (see below). The crystallization of Brazilian jazz as a
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musical genre occured precisely in this environment--in the instrumental universe
around bossa nova--and thereafter it develops apart from chorinho, which would
cultivate its conservative nature, and apart from instrumental dance music.
Throughout the 1960s, bossa nova was still appreciated in the country and was
legitimized by its international success, but it began to fade away (Castro 1990), until
its retaking in the 1980s. In addition to bossa nova, several simultaneous waves
occurred in MPB in the 1960s: the movement known as jovem guarda, which
assumed a well-behaved romantic rebellion with its bolero-like rock-&-roll songs
(Menezes Bastos 1999b); protest music, which affirmed a necessarily political
engagement of art (Tinhorão 1974); and finally, the tropicália movement, which
synthesized all these waves (Dunn 2001, Sanches 2000, Calado 1997, Veloso 1997).
Tropicalismo is an attempt to articulate modernity and tradition, hence touching
deeply on what Da Matta termed the “Brazilian dilemma”: the founding
dichotomization of Brazilian ethics between the rural-traditional-holistic and the
urban-modern-individualistic worlds (1979). In the midst of these various waves, the
emerging Brazilian jazz was growing, sustained mainly by bossa nova and its
reflections in the USA, where the celebrated meeting of João Gilberto and Stan Getz
symbolized the encounter between the Brazilianess of bossa nova and the
Americaness of jazz, launching a dialogue of musicalities that would become central
to Brazilian jazz. The compatibility of Getz’s solos with the groove of bossa nova
created a sound that would be explored also by cool jazzists.
In addition, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Oscar Castro Neves, and other
Brazilian musicians who lived in the USA started bringing to jazz Brazilian rhythms
such as baião, and percussion instruments such as the pandeiro and berimbau. The
occasional inclusion of these “exotic” elements in American jazz reflexively
stimulated natives and changed their way of playing, while legitimizing the continuity
of Brazilian jazz. In other words, elements of Brazilian music, because of the way in
which they were incorporated into North American music, return to their original
source legitimized by international recognition, and thus end up reinserting
themselves into and reinventing tradition. A recent example of this reflexivity is the
North-american drummers typical way of playing samba and bossa, heavily drawing
on cymbals, which influenced the style of many Brazilian drummers, who in turn
create new ways of playing. This reflexivity seems to me an essential constituent of
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the cultural systems of reappropriation and rearticulation of globalized musicalities,
since the world’s musical genres are composed mutually and dialogically. MPB itself
results from a notable interaction with Caribbean, Paraguayan and Argentinean music
(Menezes Bastos 1999b), with bolero playing a central role (Araújo 1999).
In the 1970s, despite the constraint in Brazilian culture caused by the military
dictatorship that began in 1964, independent record labels came out in Rio de Janeiro
and São Paulo, such as Lira Paulistana, dedicated to promoting Brazilian jazz. In
other regions of the country the genre also developed significantly, such as in Minas
Gerais, where the Clube da Esquina movement emerged, bringing groups like Som
Imaginário and Azymuth, and in Pernambuco, where the Armorial movement arose,
which blended the traditions of popular Northeastern culture and avant-garde art.
In the 1980s, Brazilian jazz began to participate in international jazz festivals
such as the one in Montreaux. At the same time that the success of national rock was
dawning (Dapieve 1995), Brazilian jazz seemed to have achieved maturity with the
music of Hermeto Pascoal and Egberto Gismonti, forming a musical unity that
remains to this day relatively homogeneous in thematic, structural and stylistic terms,
and consisting therefore of a genre of recent tradition. In addition, one must not forget
the important role of brass bands, mainly in small Brazilian towns, which until at least
the 1960s frequently played in park bandstands. For example, many musicians from
the Mantiqueira band, an important current exponent of Brazilian jazz, began their
musical experiences in connection with these bands, as is the case of saxophonist and
clarinetist Nailor “Proveta”. With the maturity of Brazilian jazz in the 1980s, the
following decade represented a period of impressive growth, as it will be adressed at
the end of this article. I shall now examine the lines and tendencies of Brazilian jazz.
I could identify three terms that I think represent the main tendencies of
Brazilian jazz: brazuca, fusion and ecm. According to the natives’ view, these are
three of the so-called main linhas (lines) of Brazilian jazz. Native discourse refers to
these lines not as closed monolithic labels, but as open and flexible thematic musical
fields, where the three lines intermingle and dialogue with each other, while one of
them--depending on the artist--remains salient. For this reason, the natives do not say
that a given artist is brazuca, but that he is “more brazuca,” which does not exclude
his fusion and ecm qualities.
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brazuca” line--a term obviously derived from “Brazil”—consists
of national rhythms such as samba, baião, frevo, maracatu, and articulates the jazz
language in a dialogue with expressive elements of these rhythms. The largest
exponent of brazuca is Hermeto Pascoal, and its oldest referential is the legendary
group Quarteto Novo, from the end of the 1960s. Northeastern musicality plays a
central role in this line: the extensive use of the mixolydian mode, with optional
augmented fourth, or the dorian mode, with various melodic riffs, the beat of baião,
that is, musical material that originate from the music of the Brazilian Northeast
region and that are largely disseminated in all Brazilian music. Another influence in
Brazuca line is the melodic style of chorinho, with its typical ornamentation and its
playful ethos. In a discussion among natives, one can say a given song has a “very
brazuca” theme, or that a saxophonist has a “really brazuca” style of composition,
that is, that he does not simply “bebop,” he has a very “root” sound.
In the “more fusion”line, the mixture of samba and funk predominates, based
on the musical movement Black Rio and on the danceability of carioca [from the city
of Rio de Janeiro] funk and soul music. In this aesthetics a predominance of
corporality, a roguish swing of samba and a funky dance drive talk with each other.
The extinct band Cama de Gato crystallized this line, which encompasses musicians
such as Leo Gandelman, Marco Suzano, and others. One of the most explored facets
of the “more fusion” line is the rhythmic structural similarity between partido altosamba and funk. One of the best known groups of this line is Aquarela Carioca, which
uses the cello and pandeiro and created a new, yet deeply carioca, sound (Connel
ecm”line is more of a jazz and meditative line, while more
influenced by European avant-garde and world music. The word ecm refers to the
style of the music recorded by German record label ECM, which, beginning in the
1980s, included artists such as Egberto Gismonti and Naná Vasconcelos. In this ecm
sound there is a certain disregard for the power of danceability, and at the same time a
great freedom and much room for improvisations, elaborated and exploratory solos.
This demands much musical background from the musician, including knowledge of
art music. The inclusion of South-American indigenous musicality and instruments,
such as the rain stick, is typical of this line, and helps create an atmosphere of
suspended time, evoking rituality and mythical temporality.
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As stated above, these three lines are presented with the quantitative indicator
“more” because the natives believe that in Brazilian jazz there is no repertoire whose
tendency is solely and purely brazuca, fusion or ecm. These three tendencies are part
of a pragmatic knowledge and may be articulated by the same artist or group, or may
even appear in different moments of the same composition, or in a single
improvisation. For example, the Cama de Gato sound, classified as a “more fusion”
line, also expresses brazuca tendencies, but the fusion tendencies are dominant. These
lines may be seen as styles of the Brazilian jazz genre. My understanding of a musical
style is inspired on Bakhtin’s ideas about styles of language and functional styles
(1986), which considers generic styles for certain spheres of human activity and
communication. As typical forms of communicative spheres, styles are inseparably
linked to particular compositional units. That is, they are connected to certain types of
constructions, as parts of a totality, yet they also act over them as if “polishing” their
surfaces. Brazuca, fusion and ecm, inseparable from the repertoire of Brazilian jazz,
are mental constructions that are articulated and communicatively recognized by the
natives, and they cross the Brazilian jazz musical genre without touching on the
There is a particular kind of symbolic relationship unitying these three lines:
“more brazuca” points inwardly--to what is internal, to the regional identity of the
rhythms it articulates;-- “more fusion” evokes a corporality common to samba and
funk, symbolizing a viability of musicalities that highlights blackness and hence
tradition; while the “more ecm” line, directing itself outwardly--towards globality and
intersubjectivity--points towards globalization. Such directions show how the lines of
Brazilian jazz mirror Da Matta’s aforementioned Brazilian dilemma.
I should reiterate that currently there is much more instrumental music being
cultivated in Brazil in addition to Brazilian jazz, such as chorinho and the dance
music of gafieira, both classified by the natives as within a possible line termed
resgate [rescue]. By looking into the multiplicity of current tendencies of MPB
(Mello 2000), today it is possible to find recordings of a variety of regional
instrumental music, such as the music of viola caipira player Helena Meireles,
electric trios from Bahia, and experimental groups such as Uakti.
In native discourse, bebop is a musical language connected to the North American
jazz bebop tradition developed from the 1940s on, but mainly in its melodic
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dimension. The bebop serves as a basic springboard for Brazilian jazz musicians to
create a type of methodology, indicated by the large-scale use of the famous
compilation of jazz songs called the “real book,” and Charlie Parker’s solo
transcriptions, the “omni book” (Gutstein 1978), referred to as a “bible” by many
saxophonists. What is worth noting here is that the jazz language is extremely
structured and normatized, and therefore strictly conventional, as Berliner (1994)
demonstrated. This author reveals the development of a unique improvisational jazz
voice, considering it to be an aesthetics and a tradition, and which I would argue is a
musicality, in the sense in which I have been using the word and shall define below.
Brazilian jazz natives are aware of this normative aspect of jazz, and they refer to
bebopear [“to bebop”] as meaning “to articulate phrases according to this style,”
which means it is necessary to know, respect and follow its rules. Here I shall limit
myself to exposing a few native meanings expressed in the native's explanations about
- suingar [to swing], which is to imprint the jazz feel (Brazilian musicians
interpret this as the predominance of 12/8 meter). Each beat should express two notes
most of the time, the second corresponding to the last ternary subdivision of the beat.
This note should be lightly accentuated in order to get suíngue [swing]. While the
bass should strictly hold the pulse by always playing on the beat, the drums should
“think in front,” that is, play ahead of the beat, and the phrases suingadas [swinging]
of the soloist should “hold it,” that is, to force back by playing behind the beat. This
way, the group shall be really suingando [swinging]. I think this native meaning of
swing could be compared to USA jazz natives’ notions of swing, groove and feel,
approximating an interesting definition of Van Praag cited by Keil: “swing is a
physical tension that comes from the rhythm’s being attracted by the metre” (Feld and
- the wide use of patterns or standardized harmonic sequences of the II-V-I type, also
- the use of typical melodic clichés, or riffs, which are ready-made musical phrases to
be engaged in specific harmonic patterns;
- the manner of linking the notes available for improvisation to the type of chord in
the harmonic basis and to the chord alterations;
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- the way of attacking these notes by employing chromatic and diatonic
- the creative interaction between the rhythm section and the soloist, as shown by
All these points are meanings expressed and employed by the natives in their
use of the concept of bebopear. Transgressions of the system, such as the use of
polytonality and the so-called outside scales, are foreseen in this bebop aesthetics of
I shall remind the reader that the object of this article is not the Brazilian
interpretation of jazz, but a specific genre, Brazilian jazz, which is born within the
instrumental world of bossa nova, involving, from the outset, an encounter of the
Brazilian and North American jazz musicalities, which I term friction of musicalities.
Now that I have sketched a brief history of Brazilian jazz, a description of its main
tendencies, and the use of the bebop concept, I shall present my view of musical
genres and musicality, and then define friction of musicalities.
Several studies on music show that genres are cultural constructions classified
by natives and that the borders between musical genres are flexible and mutable, and
therefore questionable under several points of view. The scene of genres in popular
music is one of intense fluidity: new genres with new labels emerge constantly, often
through the intersection of multiple existing genres, or from the reevaluation of their
symbolic borders. Likewise, there may exist musical genres that are performed but
which have no label, as occurs with literary genres (Ducrot and Todorov 1972, 147).
To approach musical genres as discourse is one way of trying to unfold the cultural
meanings that underlie their construction (Walser 1993). The notion of genre
employed here is inspired on the ideas of Bakhtin about speech genres (1986): a
musical genre is like a set of musical and symbolic elements that presents stability in
terms of thematics, styles and compositional structures. Genres are therefore like
spheres of popular music that incorporate relatively similar musical productions
during a certain period of time and are constantly subject to changes. All over the
world, musicians are constantly creating news fusions and connections, and for this
reason the study of genres in popular music is a difficult and constant task.
Supergenres are the categories that somehow encompass several musical genres, and
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Brazilian jazz, as we saw above, is a musical genre that belongs more to the
supergenre MPB than to the supergenre jazz.
I’m viewing musicality as more than a musical language: it a set of musical
and symbolic elements, deeply interconnected, that constitutes a system which rules
the musical world of a given community. It is also the competence of musical hearing
and practicizing enacted through this musical-symbolic system, a capacity that
derives largely from a learning process. Even though it results from a particular
manner of ordering the audible world achieved through cultural transmition, it’s not
monolithic and exclusive: as a repository of cultural meanings, consisting a kind of
“cultural memory” (Floyd Jr. 1995), a musicality can be approached by means of
observation and participation. Thereby, an individual can reach a certain competence
in different musicalities, similarly to what Hood termed “bimusicality” (1960), and an
example of this is Brazilian jazz natives’ efforts to attain competence in jazz, and so
are the efforts of some North American jazz natives in relation to Brazilian music.
Bebopear is the expression of the Brazilian reading of the jazz musicality, yet
it is simultaneously both valuable and fearsome for most Brazilian jazz natives: it
demonstrates technical know-how and mastery of the jazz language, which
symbolically is a passport to global communicability, but at the same time it
teleologically points to the need for dissolving bebop itself and expressing what
distinguishes it from Brazilian jazz, that which is nearer to a “root” of Brazilian
musicality, therefore more “authentic.” There is an important contradiction here,
which refers to the already mentioned modernist narrative of authenticity. However,
along with the drive to avoid contamination from the bebop paradigm and to seek an
expression that is more rooted in Brazil, there is an absolute cannibalization of the
jazz musicality, explicit in the natives’ discourse about their favorite jazz masters and
the wide use of jazz methods for instrumental improvement.
The moment of improvisation clearly exemplifies these considerations: when a
native soloist has a free space for expression, there are moments when he gives
himself frankly to bebop, seeking the weight of the jazz tradition that gives him
legitimacy and confers on him a symbolic status of global improviser, but at the same
time he tries to express something more Brazilian, making use of traits of other
Brazilian music genres, such as chorinho. A very frequent resource at this time is the
use of Northeastern musicality, considered to be a “root” musical universe and a safe
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ground for authentic expression. The idea of valuing “roots” is still a very strong
narrative in Brazilian music in general, and its origins are probably found in 19th
century German romantic thought, with the congruence between the concepts of
popular, nation and rural (Middleton 1990, 4). This relationship to the Northeast as
source of authenticity is historical, and remounts to the foundations of Brazilian
modernist thought of the 1920s and 1930s (Menezes Bastos 2000, 23-4). Therefore, in
Brazil “roots” are found in the countryside, in rural areas, in the simplicity as opposed
to the urban world. Other possible resources to escape bebop involve hybrid
languages of the urban world—such as romantic lyricism from contemporary
Brazilian songs—as well as the “atonal moments” of outside scales, and the
expression of other Brazilian musicalities connected to regional musical
developments in the country, such as music from Bahia, from the Amazon, and from
Rio Grande do Sul (Lucas 2000). I argue that these fields express their own
musicalities, which are here re-enacted in a new context.
I am attempting to show that the musicality of Brazilian jazz is comprised of
an amalgam of regional musicalities—Northeastern, chorinho, samba, Afro-Bahian,
free (urban atonalism, outside scales)—that is placed in a relationship that is both
tense and synthesizing, near-coming and distance-taking, in regards to North
American jazz musicality, and that this relationship is charged with native discourses
regarding cultural imperialism, national identity, globalization and regionalism. In
order to understand this dialectic relationship that constitutes Brazilian jazz, I came
up with the concept of friction of musicalities, which was inspired on the theory of
interethnic friction of Brazilian anthropologist Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira (1964,
1972). Cardoso de Oliveira developed this theory beginning in the 1960s, in order to
capture the unequal relationship between the indigenous and Brazilian societies,
which he saw as marked by contradiction. The conflict, inherent to the reality of
interethnic friction, is explained by the diverse interests of the societies in contact and
their irreversible entanglement and interdependence. Cardoso de Oliveira stays away
from the idea of transmission, acculturation or assimilation, linked to the previous
culturalist paradigm, and directs the focus away from cultural change and towards the
continued interaction between the two societies that forms an intersocietal system.
This system exhibits, in its core, inequality. It’s not my intention to present here the
discussions about this concept, carried out in Brazilian ethnology, but to show how it
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can inspire a new look at this tension between Brazilian and North American
musicality in the heart of Brazilian jazz.
As I have already stated, I understand musicality to be an integrated set of
musical and symbolic elements that manifests itself in a human community. In the
case of jazz, this community is currently international and pluricultural, and according
to the native discourse, this community shares what could be called bebop paradigm,
that is, a jazz musicality that enables a global musical communicability. Yet Brazilian
jazz, as I attempted to demonstrate, while devouring this bebop paradigm, incessantly
seeks to distance itself from North American musicality, by enacting a Brazilian
musicality. This tension is congenital and essential to Brazilian jazz as a musical
genre, as long as it remains stable in terms of thematics (the friction of musicalities is
constituent here, exposing itself more clearly in the improvisations), styles (the
regional lines and idioms, such as Northeastern musicality) and compositional
structures (in the musical code proper, such as in the rhythmic patterns and use of
modality). The clash between the Northeastern mixolydian and the blues scale is part
of this stability; it is a fundamental distinction of Brazilian jazz. Here, the musicalities
converse but do not mix; their musical-symbolic borders are not crossed but instead
are objects of a manipulation that ends up reaffirming the differences. The mechanical
metaphor of friction implies that the objects in contact touch and rub each other’s
outer layers, perhaps exchanging particles, but the substances of the hardened nuclei
tend to be preserved. That is why we should not speak of complementarity, as many
discourses naively do, since the nature of this friction is not constructive but
deconstructive, full of tension and flexibility, and often of irony, such as in the
examples of friction of musicalities involving irony and parody in jazz (Monson 1996,
Despite the fact that native discourse occasionally affirms that such tension is
undesirable--that is, a decharacterizing element that tends to disappear in an ideal
future fusion--I think it is actually a very salient constituent part of the genre, a strong
identity mark that gives it its national and global character. This friction is related to
the common-sense narratives of North American cultural hegemony in Brazil and
hence to the association of jazz to something invasive and unwanted in Brazilian
culture. The symptomatic rejection of jazz is connected to anti-American sentiments
that partially developed in Brazil, mainly beginning with the nationalism of the 1930s
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and the leftist discourse of the 1960s, when the cultivation of jazz was associated with
the Brazilian economic elite, where jazz was supposed to be considered refined or
chic. To listen to and know jazz was a sign of status, culture, cosmopolitanism and
participation in North American culture--a cultural passport to belong to a global
elite--and a sign of alienation and disregard in relation to Brazilian culture. In this
manner, while the feelings that manifest the repudiation of jazz are directly connected
to the sociological aspects above, the cannibalism of Brazilian jazz points to a
dissolution of the nationalist and patriotic discourse and leads to the idea of
multicultural participation in the formation of the genre.
Any analysis of Brazilian jazz must examine the musical elements at play,
such as motives, scales, chords, chord patterns, riffs, improvisations, forms,
dynamics, as well as the embodied meanings in them (Meyer 1967). I find it very
important to transcribe improvisations, to play in jam sessions, and to analyse native
discourse. The fact is, in Brazilian jazz there are specific rhythmic-melodic inflections
and beat de-synchronizations that may evoke a certain “looseness,” coherent with the
open and relaxed nature attributed to Brazilian music in general, and nevertheless
there is much normatization in such elements, all this is full of cultural significance
and ideological implications. For example, the several kinds of drums levadas
[leadings], the exact point at which a beat should occur, the often asymmetrical
cymbal strokes--seemingly flexible aspects--are actually shared skills and involve
much precision: as Keil proposes, they are participative discrepancies (1994). The
discourse of natives-- recalling that it includes not only musicians but also listeners
and experts--is full of metaphors central to an understanding of the aesthetics of
Brazilian jazz, and its study, along with the analysis of emerging musical processes,
can demonstrate how Brazilian jazz communicates criticism, emotions and moral and
political sensibility. The shared skills are therefore also of a socio-musical order and
can lead to the knowledge of the essential gestures of the genre, that is, the rhetorical
topics (Agawu 1991) central to Brazilian jazz.
To conclude, I shall present my own position on the question of authenticity
and how the developments of Brazilian jazz starting in the 1990s point to an
increasingly larger distance in relation to mainstream jazz and the bebop paradigm. I
don’t think there is such a thing as authenticity per se, or universally authentic
cultures or traditions. I assume traditions are inventions (Hobsbawm and Ranger
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1992) and cultures are best seen not as patterns of behavior, but as sets of symbolic
control devices that exist for a community to govern its behavior (Geertz 1989, 56). In
order to choose what is to be considered authentic, the artificial of the past must be
seen as natural in the future. Authenticity is therefore a kind of veiling of previous
conventions, or as Peterson puts it, a social construction that partially deforms the
past (1992). With this view of authenticity, it becomes harder to see globalization as a
destructive process in which there is a flow of transnational influences that fully
commands the sensibilities of the so-called “peripheral” cultures, making them
increasingly non-distinct from the “center”. In other words, the ideas of assimilation
or homogenization seem no longer appropriate, since there is neither an actual
authenticity to be preserved nor a supposed authenticity of hegemonic cultures. The
“peripheral” cultures (Hannerz 1991) can recolonize this flow through local
responses, thus dissolving the view of a center-periphery polarization and of an
unilateral direction of cultural exchange. In my opinion, there always was and always
is cultural change and exchange, as much as veiling of the conventionality of what is
to be elected as “authentic” or as “roots” of culture. In this sense, I think globalization
is not something that has erupted in recent history, but an intensification of a process
that originates at least in the heart of the Western modern world (Giddens 1991).
In the past 10 years, the number of Brazilian jazz musicians and bands has
increased in an impressive manner, even though space in the media and the amount of
record labels, producers, specialized studios and places to play have perhaps not
accompanied this pace. The new generations no longer voraciously pursue bebop as
the previous ones did. For this reason, Brazilian jazz is increasingly less jazz and
more músicainstrumental. The “mythic” references today are much more Hermeto
Pascoal, Egberto Gismonti, Pixinguinha, Radamés Gnatalli, that is, the pillars of this
musicality are found mostly in Brazilian artists.ental music is
growing and as a consequence so is decentralization in relation to the Rio de
Janeiro/São Paulo axis, and yet an increasing number of young people are playing
cavaquinho, viola caipira, zabumba and the accordion, instruments that until now had
been left out. A much less prejudiced and more advantageous relationship with the
world of art music has also been established, and groups of chamber music, such as
clarinet quintets and guitar quartets, have emerged, dedicated to playing música instrumental. Indeed, the scenario is undergoing notable internal expansion.s
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that starting in the 1990s, while the growth of the world music consumption in the
USA and in Europe was reflecting an opening towards different musical cultures,
Brazilian musicians were looking inwardly towards their own traditions, discovering
and appreciating their “roots,” or rather, recreating them under a new perspective.
What is now maintained from the spirit of jazz is much less the bebop phrasing and
the worship of great jazz masters and much more the freedom of creation and
improvisation. In this deeper meaning, Brazilian jazz strongly continues to be jazz,
belonging to a transnational musical movement. Throughout the 20th century, North
American jazz expanded intensely around the world and diverse responses to this
flow were emerging and interacting; today jazz belongs to the world and needs to be
studied as a transnational reality: it is global culture.
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1 This text is an attempt to develop ideas expressed previously in Piedade (1999a). 2 I do not like the term ‘art music’, but I’ll use it here to avoid the rather inadequate term ‘classical’. 3 One difference between Afro-Cuban and Brazilian musicality can be illustrated by a story that was told to me via e-mail by Charles Keil. When Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira played with salsa bands in New York, he was criticized because the band wanted each beat and conga slap in its exact
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place, while Airto improvised too much. Keil told me about a “Brazilian losseness” or “openess,” contrary to the perfectionism of Puerto Rican music, linked to the specific characteristics of its African roots. 4 For example, in addition to the aforementioned chorinho revival, the natives are referring currently to a “Jabour school,” related to the disciples of Hermeto Pascoal who are developing their solo career, such as Itiberê Zwarg, the group Curupira, Nenê, Carlos Malta and others. There are also several instrumental groups connected to the Mangue beat movement in Pernambuco. 5 A panel that illustrates this diversity is the Rumos Itaú cultural Música Project (see website http://www.itaucultural.org.br).
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