A longtime Brazil-o-phile, DJ, advogado and raconteur John Armstrong knows his Carlos Jobim from his Eddie Cano. He also knows Brazilian music outside of that ubiquitous bossa-jazz ‘Girl From Ipanema’ canon, which he neatly sidesteps here, choosing to showcase tracks by such old-school renegades as the late Coltrane-style saxophonist Victor Assis Brasil (on the sophisticated closer, ‘Gingerbread Boy’) and jazz pianist Dom Salvador, here with his sextet on ‘Gafiera’, lending the samba partner dance more art. Mostly, though, this is a compilation of millennial musicians, leftfield seekers who eschew the poppy likes of lambada and axé for sounds inspired by funk, reggae, soul jazz, European jazz and the spiritual leanings of Sun Ra, Roland Kirk and Afrobeat. So we have gafiera (dancehall) orchestras like Iconili and Bixiga 70, borrowing from New York and the Caribbean, reclaiming their African roots. The golden-voiced Tulipa Ruiz is here, delivering Roy Ayers-style jazz funk and teenage renegade Tassia Reis gives us silky smooth jazz-rap. A veritable cornucopia of treasures.