Samba Samba Samba

As a post-Christmas gift to myself, I bought Carnaval au Bresil on vinyl - I gave it a test run at the record shop where I found it and the 1981 recording (and cover photo) sounds heavenly.  It will give me plenty of opportunity to master the samba step in the comforts of my own, little NY apartment; let's just hope the downstairs neighbor won't mind the jumping and hopping...