Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimony
of scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience as
a prominent jazz musician, Cubano Be, Cubano Bop is destined to
take its place among the classics of jazz history. The work pays
tribute not only to a distinguished lineage of Cuban jazz musicians
and composers, but also to the rich musical exchanges between Cuban
and American jazz throughout the twentieth century.
The work begins with the first encounters between Cuban music and
jazz around the turn of the last century. Acosta writes about the
presence of Cuban musicians in New Orleans and the “Spanish tinge”
in early jazz from the city, the formation and spread of the first
jazz ensembles in Cuba, the big bands of the thirties, and the
inception of “Latin jazz.” He explores the evolution of Bebop,
Feeling, and Mambo in the forties, leading to the explosion of
Cubop or Afro-Cuban jazz and the innovations of the legendary
musicians and composers Machito, Mario Bauzá, Dizzy Gillespie, and
Chano Pozo. The work concludes with a new generation of Cuban jazz
artists, including the Grammy award-winning musicians and composers
Chucho Valdés and Paquito D’Rivera.
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