![]() If you’ve never been to Dizzy’s, it has been described as “the best jazz room in the city.” The acoustics are superb and it offers a panoramic view of the New York City skyline. The lighting for the second set was much better. During the first set the lighting was a bit dark, probably because the backdrop is the New York City skyline and it was still daylight. Visually, a single camera was used, as opposed to the Nuevo Jazz Latino webcast, where several cameras were used. How was it on your end?ĭN: Technically, the sound was great. You viewed it via live-stream in Toronto, Canada. TP: I attended the performance at Dizzy’s (Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York). Even an American standard like the theme to I Love Lucy, Roberts reminds us, was shaped by the Latin influence.Editor Danilo Navas and New York Co-Editor Tomas Peña Discuss Elio Villafranca and The Jass Syncopators: Caribbean Tinge Live at Dizzy’s (Motema Music) Roberts also details the Puerto Rican contribution to the making of salsa, the pivotal role of Puerto Rican Americans in creating rap, and the fast-growing popularity of merengue from the Dominican Republic. Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim combined his native country's samba percussion with jazz structures and European harmonies and launched the bossa nova craze of the mid '60s Mexican American superstars Carlos Santana and the late songstress Selena blended Afro-Cuban, rock, blues, Tejano, and Tex-Mex folk styles into an upbeat American hybrid. Roberts highlights pioneering Latin American performers who popularized Afro-Hispanic music in the United States: Cuba's Pérez Prado and Mario Bauzá, for example, swung New York dancers to the beat of the rumba, mambo, and Latin jazz in the '30s and '40s. The Latin Tinge shows how musical trends from Spain and Africa evolved into the Cuban son, bomba y plena in Puerto Rico, Argentinean tango, and the samba in Brazil. When it comes to 20th-century American pop music, "virtually all of the major popular forms-Tin Pan Alley, stage, and film music, jazz, rhythm and blues, country music, and rock-have been affected throughout their development by the idioms of Brazil, Cuba, or Mexico." So writes eminent musicologist John Storm Roberts of the often-overlooked role that Latin American rhythms, musical forms, and musicians have played in shaping American culture. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() With an update on the jazz scene and the careers of legendary musicians as well as newer bands on the circuit, the second edition of The Latin Tinge sheds new Light on a rich and complex subject: the crucial contribution that Latin rhythms are making to our uniquely American idiom. Now, in this revised second edition, Roberts updates the history of Latin American influences on the American music scene over the last twenty years.įrom the merengue wave to the great traditions of salsa and nortena music to the fusion styles of Cubop and Latin rock, Roberts provides a comprehensive review. With the first edition of The Latin Tinge, John Storm Roberts offered revolutionary insight into the enormous importance of Latin influences in U.S. Latino rap has brought a musical revolution, while Latin and Brazilian jazz are ever more significant on the jazz scene. The Tejano superstar Selena and the tango revival both in the dance clubs and on Broadway are only the most obvious examples of how central Latin music is to American musical life.
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