Lesson Plan on Latin Jazz

The sound and rhythm had been around since New Orleans Jazz

                WC Handy – St. Louis Blues had a habanera rhythm in the intro

                Jelly Roll Morton – “latin tinge”

                Duke Ellington – Caravan, Perdido with Juan Tizol from Puerto Rico

Dizzy began playing with Latin Jazz Musicians and popularized the sound

                Mario Bauza – got Dizzy the gig in Cab Calloway’s band

                Chano Pozo – Manteca, Cubano Be Cubano Bop, dies tragically some
                        speculate because he shared rhythms from a secret society

Afro Cuban sound

                Machito – Mario became musical director for Machito’s Afro Cuban Allstars

Charlie Parker played “My Little Suede Shoes” and also records with Machito

Latin music became popular in the late 1940s and 50s with the Mambo and the Cha, Cha, Cha

Tito Puente  - became the king of the timables and the Mambo King his vocalist Celia Cruz
     alongside him

Birth of Salsa in the 1960s

                Ray Barretto, Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colon, Carlos Santana and others

Birth of Bossa Nova in the 1960s

                Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Luis Bonfa, Stan Getz

                Light syncopated rhythm with the Brazilian Samba as its base

                Fast moving chord changes deceptively subtle

Musical Descriptions

                Claves – wooden sticks that actually came from sailing ships

                3-2 clave and 2-3 clave basis for Latin rhythms

                Cha, Cha, Cha is a another rhythmic foundation along with the rhythm played
                      by the congas called Guaguanco

                Son and Son Montuno