The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance, and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and European (especially Spanish) music. Cuban music is among the richest and most influential regional music in the world. All of the tracks here were recorded during the Golden Age of Cuban Music, […]
Latin Jazz has been an important and evolving current in jazz since the mid-1940s, when Dizzy Gillespie invited the legendary Cuban conga drummer Chano Pozo to join his big band. However, Latin rhythms were present in jazz even earlier, as proven by such recordings as Louis Armstrong’s 1930 “The Peanut Vendor” (a reworking of Cuban […]
Pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader, Bebo Valdés was one of the most influential figures in the history of Cuban music. Born in the town of Quivicán in the outskirts of Havana on October 9, 1918 (he died on March 22, 2013, at the age of 94), Valdés was raised among the Yoruba music rituals that […]
