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Jazz Band Sagua 1920s. The Cuban Jazz Band was founded in 1922 by Jaime Prats in Havana. The personnel included his son Rodrigo Prats on violin, the great flautist Alberto Socarrás on flute and saxophone and Pucho Jiménez on slide trombone. The line-up would probably have included double bass, kit drum, banjo, cornet at least.
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Son cubano is a genre of music and dance that originated in the highlands of eastern Cuba during the late 19th century. It is a syncretic genre that blends elements of Spanish and African origin. Among its fundamental Hispanic components are the vocal style, lyrical metre and the primacy of the tres , derived from the Spanish guitar .
Santiago de Cuba and Havana were the two main centers for street carnivals. Two types of dance music (at least) owe their origin to comparsa music: Conga: an adaptation of comparsa music and dance for social dances. Eliseo Grenet may be the person who first created this music, [13] p408 but it was the Lecuona Cuban Boys who took it around the ...
Montserrat Caballé; Kaydy Cain; Juan Carlos Calderón; Camarón de la Isla; José María Cano; Nacho Cano; Blas Cantó; Nacho Canut; Manolo Caracol; Antonio Carbonell
Calle Real (band) Charanga Habanera; Conjunto Chappottín; Conjunto Rumbavana; Coro Nacional de Cuba; Creole Choir of Cuba; Cuarteto d'Aida; Cuarteto Patria; Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces Military Bands Department; Cubanito 20.02
The Cuban bolero tradition originated in Santiago de Cuba in the last quarter of the 19th century; [6] it does not owe its origin to the Spanish music and song of the same name. In the 19th century there grew up in Santiago de Cuba a group of itinerant musicians who moved around earning their living by singing and playing the guitar.
The history of the conga (also known as comparsa conga or conga de comparsa) is obscure and its origins remain largely unknown.In the early 19th century, although the word "conga" is not found in written sources, there are references to "tumbas", and, according to Brea and Millet (1993:204), "tumba" refers to the percussion ensemble of the conga.