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
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The strongest storm to strike Cuba in more than 80 years ravaged infrastructure throughout the country, collapsing the power grid and damaging crops after it slammed ashore late Friday. In the keys along the northern coast, it battered beach resorts popular with … Read more
A stage performance by the group Abbilona of a piece called “Osain del Monte.”
The drums they are playing are called Batá.
There are four major African cultural and spiritual influences alive and thriving in Cuba today: Palo (Congo), Abakuá (from the Carabalí), Arará (from Dahomey, now Benin), and Regla de Ocaha, also called La Regla de Ifá or Lucumi, … Read more
August 2017, Jazz on the Tube brought Havana jazz educator Camilo Moreira to New York City and the Bronx to experience US jazz and meet his Latin jazz “uncles” and “cousins” in the U.S. first hand for the first time. (Camilo has been up before but always with … Read more
You can find Casa Amadeo at:
86 Prospect Ave,
Bronx, NY 10455
(718) 328-6896
Subway, two ways:
6 Train to Longwood Avenue (6 blocks from Southern Boulveard)
or
2 to 5 to Jackson Avenue (north on Westchester Avenue)
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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