Soundtrackloops Afro Cuban Rhythms Percussion Loops

Here we have a summit meeting late in the careers of the pioneering titans of Afro-Cuban jazz: Dizzy Gillespie fronting the Machito orchestra on trumpet, with Mario Bauza as music director, alto saxophonist/clarinetist, and organizing force, and Chico O'Farrill contributing the compositions and arrangements. This could have been just a nostalgic retro gathering 25 years after the fact, but instead, these guys put forth an ambitious effort to push the boundaries of the idiom. The centerpiece is a 15-minute trumpet concerto for Gillespie called "Oro, Incienso y Mirra," where O'Farrill melts dissonant clusters, electric piano comping, and synthesizer decorations together with hot Afro-Cuban rhythms into a coherent, multi-sectioned tour de force…

Afro-Cuban jazz is a vibrant fusion of jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythms, originating in the 1940s in New York City. It combines the improvisational nature of jazz with the complex, clave-based rhythms of Cuban music, such as son, mambo, and rumba. This genre emerged from the collaborations of Cuban musicians like Mario Bauzá and Frank Grillo (Machito) with prominent jazz figures like Dizzy Gillespie.