Week 10 - Mambo And Latin Jazz

Question 1

Mario Bauza

Answer 1

Master multi instrumentalist composer arranger bandleader teacher

• Born in Havana 1911
• taught himself to play trumpet in two weeks time
• 1940 joined his brother-in-law’s machito to create a maChito and the Afro Cubans
• introduced Dizzy Gillespie to Chano Pozo
• turn down a procedure scholarship to Europe and spent his time in Harlem’s clubs play with cab Calloway an addition for chick web

Question 2

Tito Puente

Answer 2

El Rey

• Born Ernesto Antonio Puente a New York in 1923 he’s Puerto Rican not Cuban
• was in the Navy in World War II received a presidential commendation
• attend a Juilliard on the G.I. Bill
• what’s the timbalero for Machito and his Afro Cuban
• Carlos Santana record of the cover of Tito’s Ouw como va
• strange for him to be a non-classical musician attending Julliard

Question 3

Miles Davis

Answer 3

• trumpeter composer bandleader an innovator (Harmon mute) no stem
• Born in 1926 in St. Louis to a middle-class family sat in with Billy Eckstein early
• 1944 he started at Juilliard where he spent most of his time in circles with dizzy and bird eventually dropped out of school and then joined birds band when dizzy couldn’t put up with his drug problem anymore
• Miles left birds group in 1948 and started collaborating with Neighbor Gil Evans he wanted to change from Bebops so he branched out into a new style “the birth of cool” softer and slower
• miles styles refers to the fact that his music was always changing
• modal jazz,

Question 4

Gil Evans

Answer 4

Jazz a ranger in orchestrator born in 1912 minute miles New York City collaborated on many albums including sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess

Question 5

Legendary miles alumni

Answer 5

John coal train, cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Wayne shorter, Tony Williams

Question 6

John Coltrane

Answer 6

Tenor saxophonist and composer
- going to 1926 North Carolina influenced by Charlie Parker play with Miles during a time where Miles’s band is referred to as the first great quintet
- as a leader of his own band with the great Elvin Jones on drums recorded Seminal albums,
Giant steps, my favorite things (where he plays a soprano sax), a love supreme

Question 7

Herbie Hancock

Answer 7

Pianist keyboardist and composer

• Born 1940 in Chicago was a child prodigy joined miles a second quintet in 1963 was interested in electric keyboards and synthesizers
• pioneer in jazz funk and fusion

Question 8

Mambo and Latin jazz

Answer 8

Described as crossover – Tito Puente had said crossover? Man I’m already on my way back.

• congas, timbales, and bongos originated in Africa Europe in Cuba
• strings piano and trumpets were added to create the core sound of Latin orchestra
• rhumba

Question 9

Meaning of mambo

Answer 9

Conversation with the gods

• what shouted to announce an extended instrumental section of a song arrangement in which the dancing would escalate like Westside story
• components of the mambo rhythm 1 Clave, 2. cascara, 3. Tumbao (bass)

Question 10

Rhumba

Answer 10

This rhythm was introduced in 1930s through 78 RPM rendition of el manisero ‘the peanut vendor’

• Spanish music was being popularized by the Havana casino in orchestra and Spanish violinist Xavier Cubat
• vocalist included Miguelito Valdes, Desi Arnaz, and Frank Grillo a (better known as much Machito’

Question 11

The palladium

Answer 11

First opened on 53rd St. and Broadway with huge lines to get in colorblind ballroom and student started hosting the three great mambo artists Machito and his Afro Cubans, Tito Puente, and Tito Rodriguez

• right around the corner from where bebop was being played I love these musicians to meet up with each other the introduction of Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo created Monteca
• dizzy said Pozo doesn’t speak English and I don’t speak Spanish but that doesn’t matter because we both speak African