London Bossanovas

Smooth Live Latin Jazz Band

Book for Background Music at Drinks Receptions and Cocktail Parties

This Smooth Latin Jazz Band is perfect to create a chilled out relaxing ambience yet upbeat . The quartet line-up includes piano, bass guitar, drums and female Brazilian singer. It can be extended to a quintet adding a percussionist or even to a sextet with a trumpet or guitar player. The band can also perform as piano & vocal duo. The members of the Band are originally from South America and now based in London. The London Bossanovas perform an expansive Latin Jazz repertoire that includes the most popular selection of Brazilian Bossa Nova tunes.

Audio

Agua de Beber

Dindi

One Note Samba

I was extremely impressed with the professionalism and musicianship of the band. Many of our guests commented on how great the band sounded and enquired about your details. I was really very happy with how things went, and your flexibility in the lead up to the day in accommodating our desired playlist was brilliant. I would have no hesitation in recommending you to potential clients, or employing you again for functions I may organise in the future. Please feel free to quote me on that or pass on my details as a potential referee.

John V

Corporate Client

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Cultural Origins of Latin Jazz begin with Cuba, New York City in particular, the States and Brazil.

Following rhythms and styles of Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music, blended with percussion, giving a balanced fusion of European and African sound.

Latin Jazz was a result of a long process of nteraction between American and Cuban music styles intertwined together to form 20th Century New Orleans’ early Jazz, that had a distinctive syncopated (accents transitioned to weaker beats) rhythmic character.

The city’s well renowned pianist and composer at the time, Jelly Roll Morton, referred to the Latin influence on Jazz as a “Spanish Tinge”.

The Cuban Habanera Rhythm was very quickly adopted by American Musicians (a syncopated four beat pattern) and could be heard in many of their compositions; especially the popular 1914’s St Louis Blues by W. C. Handy.

Sounds of American Jazz eventually spread through to the Caribbean simultaneously as Latin American melodies and dance rhythms made their way to North America Regions.

Across the entire region, both musicians and bands became more versed with the musical languages, where larger bands soon expanded their own repertoire into congas and rumbas, two types of Afro-Cuban dance music.

Drummers of Afro-Cuban style music played a fundamental role in developing Latin Jazz from the late 1940s through to the 1960s, as it gave the genre its visibly inexhaustible stream of rhythmic patterns, phrasings, and styles all through the means of percussion.

As time progressed, by the early 21st century,Latin Jazz gained popularity and critical acclaim as well as became one of the most dynamic and diverse components of the Jazz World.

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