Abstract
Brazil was a very early convert to jazz, which was marked by numerous appropriations and musical fusions. The first echoes of jazz were heard in Rio in 1917, a few months after the official birth of samba. Yet still little is known about the early history of jazz in Brazil. This article adopts a cultural and social history approach to music to identify the actors and sociological vectors that enabled the first appropriation of jazz by Brazilian musicians and audiences; to analyse the evolution of jazz repertoires; and to understand its impact (real, albeit highly controversial) on the Brazilian musical scene from the 1920s to the 1950s.
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