Evolution of Jazz in Cuba

q1.jpegSince the 30s, the rise of big bands in Cuba was an indisputable fact, and his presence on the island had been in the previous decade. So little haphazard and more as a logical development of the spirit of Jazz, Cuban gangs imposed a contract on the island, from Northern America, as those incorporated into their repertoire Cuban music, especially danzón, boleros, canciones, as formula for the exploitation of commercial music. At this time we found the banda of the Castro brothers, the Curvelo the Palau, Don Aspiazu Havana Casino and also the Siboney, Alfredo Brito, the Lecuona Cuban Boys, Armando Oréfiche, the Casino de la Playa, the Armando Romeu , Riverside, among others. Parallel to the indisputable presence of

jazz in Cuba, there is the phenomenon of expansion of Cuban music in the entertainment capital of the moment: Madrid, Paris, Mexico are among the capital welcomed ardent enthusiasm of Cuban music. This increases the exchange between artists, which produces an "invasion" of these orchestras Cuban capital. There are testimonies of researchers like Leonardo Acosta establishing the parallelism that was lived to the 30s between the traditional Cuban music and jazz, as in the presentations the audience was even the traditional music of Cuba, as Cuban jazz, a sign Clearly, the wide acceptance of the two styles by attending the famous sites such as the cabaret era Boat drunk. By 1940, singer Frank Grillo (Machito) proposed to his brother, the saxophonist and trumpeter Mario Bauza, to form a band that merged Afro-Cuban music and Jazz. Thus arises the "Machito and his Afrocubans, with which, in 1943, Mario Bauza up the theme of" Tanga "is considered the first jazz piece Afrocuba. Then record with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie as a major, who christened the Jazz Afro-Cuban as Cubop. While this was happening in New York, is satisfied in Havana's historic band called the Jazz led by Armando Romeu Bellamar in which stood the great jazz trumpeter Louis Escalantee, trombonist Leopoldo Pucho Escalante and tenor sax Gustavo Mas. also highlights the contribution of Chico O'Farrill, trumpeter and arranger who was later integrated into the contract with the Tropicana cabaret, with Armando Romeu in the head, consisting of 4 trumpets, three trombones, five saxophones, orchestra partially fulfilled the dreams of its director: to expand the size of a large orchestra on a set of jazz-band. Cuba flourished in the music industry with the advent of radio and competition between broadcasters and the entertainment industry. At the end of the 40s, is the feeling, a movement initiated by the various composers who intentionally left the influence of Italian music and Spanish and was an approach to jazz. Formed part of the group figures as Jose Antonio Mendez and Cesar Portillo de la Luz, who with other members of the movement reproduced of meetings to interpret jazz, which in this context given the Latin name of discharges, the current term and decade of 60 in New York. Figure of the whole or group based on the discharges were: The Black Alejandro Vivar, trumpeter, Tata Palau, tenor sax, Bebo Valdés, piano; Fernando Vivar, bass, and Barreto, on drums. Downloads of the styles that emerged with regard to the piano, the saxophone, clarinet, in particular, will be the background of salsa and Afro-Latin jazz. So were the conditions that arise in the same period the figure of Damaso Perez Prado and the mambo rhythm, characteristic fusion of jazz and Afro-Cuban. In the 50s, there was the magnificence of the Cuban music produced to date and this is confirmed also by the rise purchased at the tourist island, which in turn shapes the mass film, the musical that includes obviously jazz figures of world renown, such as Sarah Vaughan, Cab Calloway, June Cristy, Tony Bennett, Eartha Kitt, Xavier Cugat, Josephine Baker, Edith Piaf, among others. By the end of the decade was the first LP recording of jazz on the island and towards the end of it, between 1957 and 1959 were recorded discs downloads that revolutionized the world of Latino United States, with great figures of music Cuban saw it, his passport to the consecration and glory.

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