Leonardo Acosta
Cubano Be Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years Of Jazz In Cuba
Book
(Smithsonian Books 834147),
Released 2003;
Editor's Pick:
Just in, this definitive text on Jazz in Cuba includes a forward by Paquito D'Rivera.
Preface by the esteemed Raúl Fernández of the Smithsonian Institute.
Translated to English by Daniel S. Whitesell. With many historic photos
288 pages, hardcover.
Highly Recommended. (BP, 2003-09-09)
Description:
Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimonial of scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience as a prominent jazz musician, 'Cubano Be, Cubano Bop' is destined to take its place among the path-breaking classics of jazz history. The work pays tribute not only to a distinguished lineage of Cuban jazz musicians and composers, but also to the rich musical exchanges between Cuban and American jazz throughout the twentieth century. Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughn, and Dizzy Gillespie are just a few of the great North American musicians who figure prominently in Leonardo Acosta's account of the influence of Cuban music on jazz.
Leonardo Acosta is the author of more than a dozen books on music and literary criticism, as well as fiction and poetry. He lives in Havana, Cuba.
Contents:
Foreward by Paquito D'Rivera
Preface by Raul Fernandez
1. Cuban Music and Jazz: First Encounters
2. The Twenties and the First Jazz Ensembles
3. The Big Bands and the Contradictory 1930s
4. The Forties: Bebop, Feeling, and Mambo
5. The Explosion of Cubop or Afro-Cuban Jazz
6. Havana in the 1950s
7. End of the Decade: The Club Cubano de Jazz
8. Musical Transition: 1959 and After
9. Irakere and the Takeoff of Cuban Jazz
Postscript, Notes, Glossary, Interviews and Conversations, & Index
288 Pages, hardcover.
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