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They didn't really have a name for the mixture of Afro-Cuban music and bebop.
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Afro-Cuban percussion, loungy jazz textures, and rock psychedelia undulate together in a hypnotically soulful way.
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At the base of his sound is mbalax, Senegal's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing music, filtered through Afro-Cuban, pop and rock sensibilities.
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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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An early encounter with Dizzy Gillespie's Afro-Cuban music persuaded Acuna that she could find original common ground between the Latin music of her youth and the modern jazz idiom.
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The focus of the new Africa Boogaloo anthology shifts to Afro-Cuban music's impact on the western coast of the continent, in countries such as Senegal, Benin, Gambia, Congo and so on.
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"This middle section came out of Derek's statement about the strings, " he said as he pointed out measures in which deconstructed polyrhythms drawn from Afro-Cuban music are scored for violins, violas and cellos.
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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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Afro-Latino expression in the U.S. had its most enduring impact thanks to Puerto Rican, Cuban and African-American musicians, who created a musical hothouse in New York City in the late '40s.
NPR: The Music Of Africa, By Way Of Latin America