Cubano Be, Cubano Bop One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba

by Acosta, Leonardo; D'Rivera, Paquito; Whitesell, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781588341471
• ISBN10: 158834147X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-17
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books

Summary

Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimony of scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience as a prominent jazz musician,Cubano Be, Cubano Bopis destined to take its place among the classics of jazz history. The work pays tribute not only to a distinguished lineage of Cuban jazz musicians and composers, but also to the rich musical exchanges between Cuban and American jazz throughout the twentieth century. The work begins with the first encounters between Cuban music and jazz around the turn of the last century. Acosta writes about the presence of Cuban musicians in New Orleans and the "Spanish tinge" in early jazz from the city, the formation and spread of the first jazz ensembles in Cuba, the big bands of the thirties, and the inception of "Latin jazz." He explores the evolution of Bebop, Feeling, and Mambo in the forties, leading to the explosion of Cubop or Afro-Cuban jazz and the innovations of the legendary musicians and composers Machito, Mario Bauzaacute;, Dizzy Gillespie, and Chano Pozo. The work concludes with a new generation of Cuban jazz artists, including the Grammy award-winning musicians and composers Chucho Valdeacute;s and Paquito Drs"Rivera.

Author Biography

Leonardo Acosta is the author of more than a dozen books on music and literary criticism, as well as fiction and poetry. He lives in Havana, Cuba.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Paquito D'Rivera	v
Preface by Raúl Fernandez	vii
Introduction	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
1 Cuban Music and Jazz: First Encounters	1	(15)
2 The Twenties and the First Jazz Ensembles	16	(25)
3 The Big Bands and the Contradictory 1930's	41	(19)
4 The Forties: Bebop, Feeling, and Mambo	60	(31)
5 The Explosion of Cubop or Afro-Cuban Jazz	91	(25)
6 Havana in the 1950's	116	(31)
7 End of the Decade: The Club Cubano de Jazz	147	(26)
8 Musical Transition: 1959 and After	173	(38)
9 Irakere and the Takeoff of Cuban Jazz	211	(40)
Postscript	251	(6)
Notes	257	(8)
Glossary	265	(6)
Interviews and Conversations	271	(2)
Index	273