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In 1947, the collaborations of beboptrumpeter Dizzy Gillespieand percussionist Chano Pozobrought Afro-Cuban rhythms and instruments, such as the tumbadoraand the bongo, into the East Coast jazz scene. Early combinations of jazz with Cuban music, such as "Manteca" and "Mangó Mangüé", were commonly referred to as "Cubop" for Cuban bebop.
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.
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 -- March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker acquired the ni...
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Ruben Hernandez Music is a young Cuban jazz project that brings together six musicians drawn from the realms of jazz and world music.More info: https://www.b...
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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 ...
Apple Music. Charged with jubilant African-rooted rhythms and an exploratory melodic force, Afro-Cuban jazz is the original Latin jazz. This hodgepodge of disparate stylistic configurations emerged from the lively block parties of immigrant New York in the ‘40s as a Caribbean-inflected art form that twists and turns in every corner—whether ...
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Afro-Cuban Jazz. Afro-Cuban Jazz is a combination of jazz improvising and rhythms from Cuba and Africa; it is also known as Latin jazz. There were some hints of Afro-Cuban jazz in isolated cases during the 1920s and '30s -- Jelly Roll Morton's "Spanish tinge" in some of his more rhythmic piano solos, a few Gene Krupa performances where he ...
