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Bauzá’s straddling of Afro-Cuban and European forms was not uncommon in the Hispanic Caribbean, and became a major determinant of his artistic vision. When Machito was nineteen, his father moved to Pogoloti, where Bauzá also lived. Machito met Bauzá through Machito’s younger sister Estella, who was twelve at the time.
Together, Machito and Bauzá formed Machito and his Afro-Cubans. With Bauzá as musical director, the band forged vital pan-African connections by fusing Afro-Cuban rhythms with modern jazz and by collaborating with major figures in the bebop movement. Highly successful with Latino as well as black and white audiences, Machito and his Afro ...
In 1940, he started his own orchestra The Afro-Cubans, one of the most important units in jazz and Cuban music history. First, the band’s name: The Afro-Cubans. This was a radical name for the time. From a perspective, the term “Afro-American” was not accepted as common usage by the New York Times until 1990. So Machito and his musicians ...
Machito's bands of the 1940s, especially the band named the Afro-Cubans, were among the first to fuse Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz improvisation and big band arrangements. Machito was the front man, conductor, and maraca player of the Afro-Cubans and its successors while Bauza determined the character of the band. Bauza, Machito's brother-in-law from his marriage to Machito's sister Estela ...
8. März 2017 · Performer: Machito Writer: Lucaino (Chano) Pozo. Rumba Afro. Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record.They are 3.5 mil truncated eliptical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with ...
3. Juni 2012 · Machito, born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo on February 16, 1908, was an influential Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both ...
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This Is Machito and His Afro-Cubans by Machito released in 1978. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
