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Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms. The two main categories are Afro-Cuban jazz , rhythmically based on Cuban popular dance music, with a rhythm section employing ostinato patterns or a clave , and Afro-Brazilian jazz, which includes samba and bossa nova .
Afro-Cuban jazz has been for most of its history a matter of superimposing jazz phrasing over Cuban rhythms. In the 1980s a generation of New York City musicians had come of age playing both salsa dance music and jazz. In 1967 brothers Jerry and Andy González at the ages of 15 and 13 formed a Latin jazz quintet inspired by Cal Tjader's group.
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.
The Latin (or romantic) ballad is a Latin musical genre which originated in the 1960s. This ballad is very popular in Hispanic America and Spain, and is characterized by a sensitive rhythm. A descendant of the bolero , it has several variants (such as salsa and cumbia ).
Word of South has a number of outstanding Latin jazz musicians this year, starting with the multi-instrumentalist (18 instruments) Roger Glenn.
The earliest popular Latin music in the United States came with rumba in the early 1930s, and was followed by calypso in the mid-40s, mambo in the late 1940s and early 1950s, chachachá and charanga in the mid-50s, bolero in the late 1950s and finally boogaloo in the mid-60s, while Latin music mixed with jazz during the same period, resulting ...
Ramos, 73, led Milwaukee's long-running Latin jazz group La Chazz as a songwriter, arranger and guitarist, touting some of the city's best musicians.
When one hears triple-pulse rhythms in Latin jazz the percussion is most often replicating the Afro-Cuban rhythm bembé. The standard bell is the key pattern used in bembé and so with compositions based on triple-pulse rhythms, it is the seven-stroke bell, rather than the five-stroke clave that is the most familiar to jazz musicians.