{"id":6190,"date":"2021-11-21T19:07:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T01:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/?p=6190"},"modified":"2021-11-21T19:07:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T01:07:19","slug":"jazz-and-afro-cuban-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/2021\/11\/21\/jazz-and-afro-cuban-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz and Afro-Cuban Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2021\/11\/OD-Trumpet-Orchestra-Credit-Darron-Jones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2021\/11\/OD-Trumpet-Orchestra-Credit-Darron-Jones-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6194\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2021\/11\/OD-Trumpet-Orchestra-Credit-Darron-Jones-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2021\/11\/OD-Trumpet-Orchestra-Credit-Darron-Jones-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2021\/11\/OD-Trumpet-Orchestra-Credit-Darron-Jones-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2021\/11\/OD-Trumpet-Orchestra-Credit-Darron-Jones-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2021\/11\/OD-Trumpet-Orchestra-Credit-Darron-Jones-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2021\/11\/OD-Trumpet-Orchestra-Credit-Darron-Jones.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">According to the article in the Chicago Defender, in December 2014, the artistic director Orbert Davis led the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra to start collaborating with Cuban musicians. Davis believes that African American musical tradition has strong relationships and connections with their Caribbean counterparts such as in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba. Davis\u2019s collaboration with Cuban musicians and student delegates has become the spotlight as US and Cuban announce the normalization of their diplomatic relations meanwhile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61OdOA86_Z0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption> YouTube video of Orbert Davis&#8217; Chicago Jazz Philharmonic performing in the U.S. Premier of Scenes From Life: Cuba! on November 13, 2015 at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I observed that the drum and percussive element of the first piece in the video shares the military\/ marching-band themes and topics common in nationalistic \u201cAmerican\u201d music. In the second jazz piece, we hear more Cuban traditional drum grooves mixing with spontaneous jazz chord progressions and spontaneous solo improvisations from different musicians. <br \/><br \/>This spiked my interest in exploring the similarities between jazz (an African American music tradition) and Cuban (Caribbean) music. Here I found a video of Afro-Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez performing in the Tiny Desk series on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GP3jS_gFs-g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Comparing this video with the <em>Scenes From Life: Cuba<\/em> concert, both of them share the communal, spontaneous and improvisatory characteristics of music-making. Both allow the individuality of each musician the spotlight to shine while musicians (and audience) hypes up and applauds each other. Both share in their distinction from non-western-classical style and structure. The two similar yet different traditions collaborate and unites through their \u201cotherness\u201d, as BIPOC community.<br \/><br \/>Article about Afro-Cuban music as sharing a similar African root which goes back to my initial \u201chypothesis\u201d regarding African roots. The uniting of the otherness, non-western, non-classical music. Community based and focus on individuality. <br \/><br \/>I looked further into this topic about the connection between Cuban and African American music and came across a dissertation about it by Aleysia Whitmore. In a featured interview, Latfi Benjeloune, guitarist and band member of the Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab commented that <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe music didn\u2019t come home and influence African music. Cuban music is already African. These are African sensibilities that are being expressed\u2026 in some way we felt like parents with this music\u2026 it came from us\u201d. It indeed sheds light to the intricacy of musical traditions, their roots and how they come together after growing apart in different social-political climates and geographical locations.&#8221;<\/p><cite> Whitmore, Aleysia K. \u201c\u2018CUBAN MUSIC IS AFRICAN MUSIC\u2019: NEGOTIATING AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA ON THE WORLD MUSIC STAGE.\u201d African music 9.3 (2013): 111\u2013121. Web. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><strong>Bibliography\/ Source<\/strong><br \/><br \/> Mdatcher. Orbert Davis: Bringing Cuba and the U.S. Together Through Jazz. https:\/\/chicagodefender.com\/orbert-davis-bringing-cuba-and-the-u-s-together-through-jazz\/ November 12, 2015. Online Article. <br \/><br \/>  Orbert Davis y la Chicago Jazz Philarmonic presents SCENES FROM LIFE: CUBA. Video.<br \/>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=61OdOA86_Z0<br \/><br \/> The Pedrito Martinez Group: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert. Video<br \/>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GP3jS_gFs-g<br \/><br \/>  Whitmore, Aleysia K. \u201c\u2018CUBAN MUSIC IS AFRICAN MUSIC\u2019: NEGOTIATING AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA ON THE WORLD MUSIC STAGE.\u201d African music 9.3 (2013): 111\u2013121. Web.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the article in the Chicago Defender, in December 2014, the artistic director Orbert Davis led the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra to start collaborating with Cuban musicians. 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