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Afro-Cuban jazz is the earliest form of Latin jazz. It mixes Afro-Cuban clave-based rhythms with jazz harmonies and techniques of improvisation. Afro-Cuban music has deep roots in African ritual and rhythm. [1]
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Nov 2, 2021 · Afro-Cuban jazz combines the rhythmic traditions of traditional Afro-Cuban music with the progressive harmonies and improvisation of American jazz music. For decades, this style of music has formed the basis of Latin jazz in the United States, Cuba, and around the world.
- Cuban Music Reaches The USA
- Machito’S Afro-Cubans
- The Fusion of Jazz with Cuban Music Was Beginning
- Dance Music
- Afro Cuban Jazz Today
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Cuban rhythms were first heard in the U.S. in the music and playing of pianist and classical composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. He had visited Cuba in 1854 and the influence was strongly felt in some of his compositions. Sebastian Yradier’s “La Paloma”in the mid-1860s and Manuel Ponce’s “Estrellita (1909) were among the first hits in the U.S. that h...
Although originally a Cuban dance band, Machito’s Afro-Cubans soon had the leader’s brother-in-law trumpeter Mario Bauzá as its musical director and arranger. Bauzá had worked with several American swing bands (including those of Chick Webb and Cab Calloway) and he had the same goal as Don Azpiazu had a decade earlier. The first Afro-Cuban jazz son...
1947 was the key year for Afro-Cuban jazz. Dizzy Gillespie added the Cuban conga player Chano Pozo to his big band, recording “Manteca.” Gillespie’s “A Night In Tunisia” (written in 1943) was also becoming a standard and, when he added bassist Al McKibbon to his orchestra, he found the ideal fusion between bebop and Cuban music which some called “C...
In the 1950s, Afro-Cuban jazz was very popular and dance halls were filled with fans who loved to dance to the music. Not all of the stars were actually Cubans. Tito Puente was born and raised in New York, percussionist Ray Barretto was from Brooklyn, and Cal Tjader (who was a major force in introducing the vibraphone to Cuban music),was of Swedish...
Among the most significant Afro-Cuban jazz musicians around today are: 1. trumpeter Arturo Sandoval 2. altoist and clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera 3. tenor-saxophonist David Sanchez 4. altoist Miguel Zenón (interviewed here) 5. soprano-saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett (a Canadian whose Spirits Of Havana brought a series of masterful Cuban players ...
Learn how Cuban and Latin rhythms were blended with jazz improvising to create Afro-Cuban jazz. Explore the history, the clavé, the conga, and the key musicians and songs of this fusion genre.
Charged with jubilant African-rooted rhythms and an exploratory melodic force, Afro-Cuban jazz is the original Latin jazz.
Jazz itself has Afro-Cuban music at its very foundation. Ragtime maestro Scott Joplin found inspiration in Cuban melodies! We’ll delve into the fascinating connection between habanera and danzón, and how these rhythms crossed the ocean to infuse American music with a unique “Latin tinge,” as pianist and composer Fats Waller put it.
Afro-Cuban Jazz Essentials. Jubilant African-rooted rhythms with an exploratory melodic force.
