Afro-Cuban Jazz : Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion

"Excellent book" according to joseluicito. I recommend this book for people that like to paint body's, the material in inside is spectacular and the photos are incredible and excellent selection, excellent history.I recommend this book, good price and excellent delivery too.. Five Stars A must have book for reference about Latin Jazz and recording guidelines!!. Good reference book. Leigh This book provides all the information needed to build an Afro-Cuban jazz library. Very good choices of recorded material that covers the decades of this music genre.

(Book). Musicians covered include: Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Willie Bobo, Machito, Poncho Sanchez, Chucho Valdes, Arturo Sandoval, Mongo Santamaria, Gato Barbieri, Eddie Palmieri, and many more.. Through anecdotal biographies and evocative photos, this book by jazz author extraordinaire Scott Yanow portrays every key Afro-Cuban Jazz innovator past and present, plus other jazz artists influenced by this infectious music. Also includes reviews and ratings of recordings that make (or don't make) the cut, and essays packed with historical insight not found in other guides

Scott Yanow has been writing about jazz since 1975. Editor of the All Music Guide to Jazz and author of Duke Ellington, Yanow also wrote Swing and Bebop for the Third Ear--The Essential Listening Companion series. Jazz Scene, Mississippi Rag, Jazz Improv, Jazz Now, Jazz Report, and Planet Jazz. Jazz editor of Record Review during its entire publishing history (1976-84), he has written for Downbeat, Ja

Yet Bellson's record isn't listed under his own name in Yanow's section of prominent jazz musicians who have recorded Afro-Cuban jazz, and neither Bellson nor the album is indexed. William G. . Also, his indexing is questionable. From Library Journal Yanow, author of the successful Swing and Bebop entries of the "Third Ear" series, here tackles Afro-Cuban jazz, a genre born, he claims, from Dizzy Gillespie's collaboration with Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. Recommended for public, academic, and music libraries. Readers will especially enjoy the author's illuminating and enjoyable conversations with four Afro-Cuban musicians. Here, Yanow notes that many of the included musicians are Latin American and American, but as they were heavily influenced by Cuba's m