samba

But despite earning the respect of luminaries in the jazz world, Pascoal rejected the label as a jazz musician, and said he owed as much to Brazilian music like chorinho and samba.

Genres including rare groove, house and samba are expected to be played out across the day.

Brazilian football has long wrestled between two systems: the flair of a samba style and the pragmatism needed to win at the highest level.

One of the top 12 samba schools competing for the title was Paraíso do Tuiuti, whose dancers paraded in exuberant feathers.

He said: "It was more like a salsa... This, for me, didn't go far enough into the world of samba."