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Afro-Cuban Jazz: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion Paperback - 2000

by Scott Yanow

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Often called "Latin jazz" today, Afro-Cuban jazz dates back to 1947, when Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo joined Dizzy Gillespie's big band, helping to fuse bebop with Cuban folk music and rhythms. This book focuses on the jazz side of this irresistible musical mixture, covering such early figures as Tito Puente and Willie Bobo and today's leading artists. 50 photos.

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Through anecdotal biographies and evocative photos, this book by jazz author extraordinaire Scott Yanow portrays every key Afro-Cuban Jazz innovator past and present, plus other jazz artists influenced by this infectious music. Also includes reviews and ratings of recordings that make (or don't make) the cut, and essays packed with historical insight not found in other guides. Musicians covered include: Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Willie Bobo, Machito, Poncho Sanchez, Chucho Valds, Arturo Sandoval, Mongo Santamaria, Gato Barbieri, Eddie Palmieri, and many more.

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Although Afro-Cuban Jazz symbolically began when Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo met in 1947, the same can be said about Mario Bauza's composing of "Tanga" for Machito's orchestra in 1943, Machito's putting together of his first successful big band in 1940, Don Azpiazu's arrival in the United States in 1930, pianist Jelly Roll Morton's utilization of a tango rhythm in his 1923 recording of "New Orleans Blues," or W.C. Handy's use of a habanera syncopation for the "B" section of "St. Louis Blues" during the 1910s.

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  • Title Afro-Cuban Jazz: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion
  • Author Scott Yanow
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 214
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Backbeat Books, San Francisco
  • Publication date 2000-12-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780879306199 / 087930619X
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 7.5 x 0.48 in (23.50 x 19.05 x 1.22 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
    • Ethnic Orientation: African
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Latin jazz - History and criticism, Jazz musicians
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00049025
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.65

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  • American Reference Bks Annual, 01/01/2002, Page 529
  • Library Journal, 03/15/2001, Page 74
  • Rec Ref Bks for Small/Med Libr, 01/01/2002, Page 197
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