We're likely to hear much of her modern, pan-Latin jazz live from Newport's Marsalis Music stage on Saturday.
Equally deserving is the work of saxophonist David Sanchez, whose Cultural Survival is nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album.
It was home to some of the country's best Latin jazz musicians in the 1940s and 50s and later gave birth to hip-hop.
The Grammy-winning Latin jazz ensemble Caribbean Jazz Project is led by vibraphonist and marimba player Dave Samuels, one of the leading percussionists of the day.
Esa curiosidad musical se refleja hasta hoy en su trabajo, con incursiones en el Latin Jazz y en el Tango, que a su vez permiten otra perspectiva y permiten otra manera de ver al flamenco.
Mr. August, principal bassist with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, is best known for his work in jazz and Latin groups.
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After experimenting with jazz, reggae, Latin music and rock, Keita had a revelation a few years back.
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.
Martinez and his band have won over dozens of people the writer has taken to see him, despite common confessions to not liking jazz or not understanding Latin music.
While this compilation highlights West Africa, any fan of Ethiopia's famed Mulatu Astatke already knows he incorporated heavy Latin influences into his signature Ethio-jazz styles, such as the descarga-flavored song "I faram Gami I faram" recently featured on a recent Astake anthology.
The televised presentations target pop, country, urban, rock, and rap categories, leaving the jazz, gospel, classical, Latin and other categories to the pre-show.
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.
With strong roots in the tradition of improvisation, jazz continues to evolve, collecting accents from Afropop, Latin dance music, eastern classical music, and pretty much every other music it comes into contact with, all while transforming other genres around the world.
She moved to the U.S. for a time, and American jazz, soul and hip-hop became part of her musical mix, along with reggae, Latin and other world sounds.
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