Introduction. The Other Jazz -- Why call it Latin Jazz? Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or just... Jazz: the politics of naming an intercultural Music -- Caribbean ...
Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.
Chico O'Farrill, 79, the composer, arranger, orchestra leader and trumpeter who helped fuse Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz in the 1940s, took it for the first time to the concert stage and reemerged in ...