And he was productive: He first worked in the trumpet sections of big bands, until he stepped forward and led the small-group revolution, creating fast, intricate new music known as bebop and pioneering Afro-Cuban jazz.

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Well-known groups like Ketageta(ph) were mixing jazz with Afro-Cuban rhythms, so the government decided to host an annual jazz festival, which drew crowds from all over the world.

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Afro-Cuban percussion, loungy jazz textures, and rock psychedelia undulate together in a hypnotically soulful way.

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The brilliant "Night Beat" (1957) represented the most fully realized blend of Afro-Latin dance rhythms and North American jazz that had yet been attempted.

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In fact, in 1998, they formed a band called Los Hombres Calientes to play jazz that reflected possibly the first blast of Afro-Latino culture in this country: a mix of African rhythms, Caribbean instrumentation and New Orleans funk.

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