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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 ] .
- Cuban Music Reaches The USA
- Machito’S Afro-Cubans
- The Fusion of Jazz with Cuban Music Was Beginning
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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.
May 2, 2024 · Each genre of Cuban music carries its own unique story, interwoven with the strands of African, Spanish, and other global influences. The exploration begins with Son Cubano, often considered the heart of Cuban music genres.
Afro-Cuban Music – Music of the World. Dr Howard Spring and Dr Ryan Bruce. Overview. Rich, rhythmically-based music practices combined with singing and dance are not uncommon in the Caribbean and South America. They are the results of various degrees of syncretism with West African music and dance.
Afro-Cuban Icons & All-Stars. Ever since September 29, 1947, when Dizzy Gillespie and the Cuban conguero-composer Chano Pozo made cross-cultural history at Carnegie Hall, bebop and Afro-Cuban...
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