Re: The AJ Seed-60's jazz
Tony Reid (t-bird@salata.com)
04 May 96 12:46:50 -0800
ji> I picked up a Santana album the other day--Caravan. And while i was
ji> never tempted in the past to think of ole Carlos as jazz,
you should check out a record he did w/john mclaughlin (love, devotion,
surrender)
where they perform john coltrane's "a love supreme". definitely jazz, a
little
OUT there, but jazz...
ji> many tracks on the album are heavily based in Latin-Cuban rhythms and
psychedelic
ji> a-j optimism. It reminds me a lot of Galliano, and the brazilian
ji> sounds coming out of Japan right now.
remember that dizzy gillespie (one of the fathers of bebop) got his first
break
w/chano pozo, an afro-cuban percussionist...
mambo was the rage in the 50's (think OLD tito puente)
in the 60's one of the big music movements that got people into jazz was the
brazillian bossanova stuff (a. carlos jobim/stan getz/joao & astrud gilberto,
et.al.)
one of the other was the boogaloo--soul meets afro cuban (ray barretto's "el
watusi", joe cuba's "bang bang"--recently covered by david sanborn--and almost
anything by willie bobo in the 60's).
santana was one of the groups that got me into both jazz and latin music.
t-bird
... mais que nada-sergio mendes