Bossa Nova & Latin Jazz, Vol. 2 Album

Seven Latin jazz cues, six samba jazz ones and a single salsa. Inside each group the tracks are close enough that the useful information is the numbers. The slowest here runs at ninety-nine beats per minute; the fastest at a hundred and fifty-two, and it still holds a flat level, which is why it works under talk. One extended cut runs four minutes sixteen — nearly a minute longer than anything else — and covers a whole segment without a loop point. The shortest is eighty-seven seconds and starts at full speed. One samba gives the rhythm section the largest share of the mix in the album; another mixes the batucada so light that it lives in the phrasing rather than the volume. The salsa is the outlier: three and a half minutes held at a high level from first bar to last, the one track here that will not sit under dialogue.

All 320 kbps, no vocals, released under CC BY 4.0. Use them for Latin and Brazilian restaurants and bars, café and terrace footage, travel and food content, dance and carnival video, and long daytime background stretches. Credit Alex Morgan and you are done.