Jazz Latino

Latin Jazz: A Legitimate American Music
Going back to the beginnings of jazz, let's remember that New Orleans was a port, a part of trade routes that included many of the Caribbean islands since the early Spanish and French colonizations. Comparisons of early Ragtime music from New Orleans with early Danzon music (a 19th century creolization of the English and French country dance, fusing elements of European chamber music with an Africanized rhythm on the tympani) from Cuba reveal many similarities, especially in the use of AfroCaribbean rhythms. Early jazz and blues pioneers, like WC Handy and Fats Waller, acknowledged what they called "the Spanish Tinge." 


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00:00 QUE SERÁ MI CHINA. TITO PUENTE 04:56 PELIGROSO AMOR. ROBERTO PERERA 08:39 LA MÚCURA. CLARE FISHER 13:10 OYE COMO VA. TITO PUENTE 19:21 MORNING. CLARE FISHER 25:19 EL GATO NOCTURNO. SALSOUL ORCHESTRA 29:08 SONANDO. PONCHO SÁNCHEZ 34:41 PEQUEÑO GIRASOL. CAYENNE 40:24 SPEAK LOW. CAL TJADER 46:28 WATERMELON MAN. MONGO SANTAMARÍA 50:14 TOMA CINCO. TITO PUENTE 56:19 LA COSTA. JORGE DALTO