Cuba is not just another country with music.
It’s nothing less than the Mother Ship of Afro-Latin music.
With its habanera, danzon, changüí, son, son montuno, rumba, mambo, cha-cha-cha, timba, and wide variety of Afro-Cuban spiritual musical forms, Cuba has been as important to the music of the world as the United States has been with its blues, jazz, rock … Read more
The mambo is a Cuban invention that got a huge boost in Mexico in the 1950s.
Here’s a contemporary Mexican artist, master vibraphonist Victor Mendoza doing a tribute to the Mambo Kings.
He has performed and taught around the world and earned recognitions and awards from multiple organizations, including Latin Beat, Modern Drummer, Jazziz, and the Smithsonian.
Jazziz magazine described … Read more
A lot of people talk about the connections between New Orleans and Cuba.
They are deep and real.
Havana actually ran New Orleans when the place was owned by the Spanish 1762 to 1803 and built big parts of the “French” Quarter.)
Anyway, the history is undeniable and so are the “look and feel” similarities of the two places (and … Read more
More from the wonderful “Conga Borikua” YouTube channel.
Third in a series of what happens when we invest in music education for young people.
Alex Lebron, Manolo Rodriguez, Marcos Lopez
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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More great stuff from the atticchris YouTube channel.
I love the way this guy captures the music.
Sweet and simple.
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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