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Machito and the Afro-Cubans, were among the first to fuse Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz improvisation and arrangements for a big band. Machito was the front man and maraca player of the Afro Cubans, while Bauza determined the character of the band as musical director.
24. März 2020 · Musician Machito (c. 1908-1984) and his group the Afro-Cubans performed from 1940 to the early 1980s, forming an influential legacy that includes salsa music and Afro-Cuban jazz.
- “Machito Llego”
- Machito and His Afro-Cubans
- Machito Square in New York City
“Machito arrived” to this world as Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo in Havana, Cuba on December 3, 1907. Like others in that period, his birth wasn’t well documented, but this date is according to Joe Conzo who was Tito Puente’s best friend back in the day. Francisco Raúl got the nickname “Macho” (manly) because he was the first boy in a family with...
Machito founded Machito and his Afro-Cubans in 1940. In 1941, Mario Bauzá joined. Machito sang and played maracas up front. Bauzá directed the band.
The intersection of East 111th St and Third Avenue in El Barrio Spanish Harlem was named “Machito Square” by Mayor Ed Koch in 1985. The name is a reference to “Congo Square” in New Orleans. In the era of human enslavement, Africans in French and Spanish Louisiana were usually given Sundays off. Lacking any place of their own, they would hang out to...
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.
- Paul Austerlitz, Jere Laukkanen
- 2016
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1. Aug. 2001 · Machito & His Afro-Cuban Salseros: 'Mucho Macho' Machito emigrated to the United States in 1937, after years of being a professional musician in Cuba. The timing was perfect, as Afro-Cuban...
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