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Zaccai Curtis “Black Rice” single from “Cubop Lives!”
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 เม.ย. 2024
- Cdbaby refuses to let me post Jazzin’ on IG and FB and because these two tracks are supposed to be my singles I have chosen to release them here! Download the music on Amazon or on bandcamp( to get the full quality WAV files if you like) Black Rice by Zaccai Curtis “Cubop Lives!” Coming May 10th 2024
Afro-Cuban jazz, fathered by Mario Bauzá, can be divided into two schools. Imagine it to be more like two sides of a coin. Instrumental Mambo jazz and Cubop. In the early 40s, Mario Bauzá, the musical director for Machito and his Afro Cubans, became the first composer to compose a piece that fused jazz melodies and improvisation with Mambo. This piece was called “Tanga.” The term Instrumental Mambo jazz, a term coined by Eddie Palmieri, titles this new style now being developed by both Mario Bauzá and Machito. Great examples of this style could be heard by musicians such as Bebo Valdés, Tito Puente, Peruchin, Eddie Palmieri and many more.
I'd like to describe Cubop as primarily a bebop composition with Afro-Cuban elements in the rhythm section. In the least, the composition might have to "lean" more towards the bebop side of this musical fusion. Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo with George Russell's "Cubana-Be Cubana-Bop" (1946), along with “Manteca”, “Tin Tin Deo” (1947) became the first examples of this and inspired artists like Stan Kenton, Art Blakey, Cal Tjader, Tito Puente, Cándido, Billy Taylor, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and more to create new paths that changed the world of music forever. In this recording I explore both styles of Afro-cuban Jazz (a term that I use to... more
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releases May 10, 2024
Zaccai Curtis - Piano
Luques Curtis - Bass
Willie Martinez - Timbales
Camilo Molina - Congas, Pandera
Reinaldo De Jesus - Bongos, Percussion
Engineered/mixed by Chris Sulit Recorded at Trading 8s Studio in Paramus
Mastered by Kevin Blackler Cover art and design by Willie Bruno
Executive Producer Ted Curtis
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