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• Afro-Cuban folkloric music other than bata - Information on Afro-Cuban drumming styles and rhythms including Rumba, Abaqua, Arara, Bantu and Bembe. This site also includes an extensive list of links to other sites and a book list.
• Afrocubaweb.com: Music - Profiles and schedules of artists worldwide, record labels and agencies, radio stations, and links.
• Bongo Drums - A brief history of bongo drumming linked to the early Cuban music styles of Changüi and Son.
• Clave Concepts: Afro Cuban Rhythms - An explanation of the essential role of clave in Afro-Cuban music.
• Cuba Music. - With strong roots in West African Yoruba religious music, Cuba's highly syncopated, potent, percussion-rich music has spawned much of what is today's salsa and Latin jazz and greatly influenced musics all over the world. This site has both reviews and sound samples from many important recordings.
• Cuban Music 101 - A brief description of Cuban music forms, with featured artists and RealAudio samples, courtesy of Mamborama.com.
• Explorations in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum - Humboldt State University Office of Extended Education presents the 6th annual Explorations in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum workshop to celebrate the folkloric music, songs, and dances of the Afro-Cuban people.
• Ile Ayan: The Sacred Power of Drum Sounds - Covers the African and Afro-Cuban tradition of sacred drum playing, the tumbadora, has a list of bata players, timbaleros, and bongoseros and a glossary of terms.
• Timba - New Styles in Afro-Cuban Popular Music - This paper by drummer Chuck Silverman, sheds some light on Timba, and on the possible outcomes of the music industry's effects on Cuban music and society.

Cuban music has its principal roots in Spain and West Africa, but over time has been influenced by diverse genres from different countries. Most important among these are France, the United States, and Jamaica. Reciprocally, Cuban music has been immensely influential in other countries, contributing not only to the development of jazz and salsa, but also to Argentinian tango, Ghanaian high-life, West African Afrobeat, and Spanish "nuevo flamenco". Cuban music of high quality includes "classical" music, some with predominantly European influences, and much of it inspired by both Afro-Cuban and Spanish music. Several Cuban-born composers of "serious" music have recently received a much-deserved revival.

Afro-Cuban jazz is a variety of Latin jazz,which was started by Dr. Obdulio Morales in the 1930's,(Cuba). Other well-known variant of Latin jazz is Brazilian jazz. Afro-Cuban jazz was played in the U.S. directly after the bebop period, while Brazilian jazz became more popular in the 1960s and 1970s.

Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz includes salsa, merengue, songo, son, mambo, and cha cha cha.

Afro-Cuban started as a movement after the death of Charlie Parker.The one starting the Afro/Jazz fire was Mongo Santamaria,(Afro/Blue),putting together Yorubas,(patterns and instruments), bebop musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Taylor started Afro-Cuban bands at later,also Miles Davis and John Coltrane jumped in the trend by doing some recording in the genre.. Gillespie's work was mostly with big bands of this genre. While the music was influenced by Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians like Tito Puente, there were many Americans who were drawing upon Cuban rhythms for their work.

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