Latin music - specifically, Brazilian, Cuban, Argentinean, and Mexican music - has been enormously influential on American jazz. However, until now no one has traced its impact or even recognized how enormously influential it has been throughout the entire history of jazz. This book traces, for the first time, the long history of interplay between these two rich musical traditions, shedding new light on the history of both styles.

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Accounting for every Latin American rhythm, instrument, song form, and harmony as it arrived in sheet music and recordings of proto-jazz and jazz might be one way to write a dull book. But Roberts, author of Black Music of Two Worlds (2d ed., 1998) and scads of album liner notes, is an enthusiast for his subject, capable of exclamations such as "Until you've heard the Lennon-McCartney `Michelle' done as a rumba abierta, you haven't lived!" Lovers of jazz, the vast range of musics called Latin, and dance music may be assured--this book is never dull. The Latin jazz story is a colorful chapter of the immigrant saga, with Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, Dominicans, and Brazilians all figuring distinctively and powerfully in it, usually surprisingly early--notice "1880s to Today" in the subtitle. Should Latin jazz nonspecialists think they won't know the music Roberts dissects, well, if they know some of Jelly Roll Morton's, Stan Kenton's, Dizzy Gillespie's, or Stan Getz's best stuff, they will be nose down in this book for days. Ray Olson

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