INTRODUCTION When it came to Latin musicians in the United States it was rarely heard of especially since they did not use their given names as their stage names. It was also uncommon to hear any Latin Musicians play any genre other than the genres played in Latin America. When jazz started to play more and more in the New York neighborhoods like Harlem, that is when Latin musicians started to play alongside with African-Americans. These musicians were of Puerto Rico or Cuban decent. I will be analyzing the influence and the impact of Latin musicians had in Jazz especially Latin Jazz in the United States.
BACKGROUND
Jazz started in New Orleans, LA around the late 19th century to early 20th century but was mainly popular in the 1920’s. Jazz was mostly played by African-Americans because of the African influences of having polyrhythms and improvisation. When Latin Jazz came was from the influences of Afro-Cuban musicians started to play Jazz with a different more spiced up note with adding more
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But before that Jelly Roll Morton, who is a ragtime and jazz musician had played jazz with a “spanish tinge” but was not considered Latin Jazz. In 1943, Bauzá wrote the song “Tanga” which is supposed to be the first Latin Jazz song. Latin Jazz became more and more popular and became the path to Latin Music with Mambo with Tito Puente as the most common musician and also Salsa. Most of the common Jazz musicians where Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo and more. These musicians mostly played in the Latin clubs in New York and then ventured out to more venues as they became popular and the demand to hear them before the it ended with the start of Rock and Roll and the connection to Cuba was closed off from the United States but that didn’t stop what was already being played and heard by the general
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