AfroJazz: The Voice of Rio de Janeiro’s Underground Jazz Movement

It’s nearing 10 am on a Tuesday morning in early May, the sun’s begun scorching the streets. Already, the streets of Lapa have awakened, commuters are heading to work, street vendors manning their stations and the forgotten homeless who seem to be increasing by the day, find refuge from said sun. The air was still thick with the smell of revelling that had taken place on these very streets merely hours ago. The scores of beer cans, empty cups of caipirinhas and cigarette butts have all but disappeared. The sanitation department — the fairies that come in the dark of night to transform sin city into something presentable by the break of dawn — remove the last traces of the various street parties, only to repeat the process the next day. Although, instead of scores of people with drinks in their hands walking alongside traffic, Lapa’s close distance to Centro made it a tourist hotspot during the day. <a href="https://medium.com/@marvinscorridor/afrojazz-the-voice-of-rio-de-janeiros-underground-jazz-movement-f01f226f8908">Read More</a>