jazz music took two distinct paths when it arrived in brazil, that of samba jazz and that of bossa nova - although both of these off shoots of samba can trace their beginnings to the late 1950s, the crucial difference is that bossa nova was a new way of playing samba with some jazz undertones and samba jazz is the actual mix of samba and jazz.

here is a list of establishments one can go to for some jazz on a friday.