El son cubano: base rítmica de salsa y jazz latino

The blending [End Page 426] of European-style melody and harmony with West African-influenced percussion provides much of the character to this music. Cuban rhythms and dance types such as son, guaracha, and bolero had a strong impact on popular music, not only in Latin America, but also in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The lasting impact of Cuban popular music is evidenced by the widespread popularity of salsa and Latin jazz worldwide...

Its basic template is the Cuban son, with added elements from Afro-Cuban jazz and Puerto Rican folk genres (plena and bomba). Machito is recognized as a seminal figure in salsa, although he objected to the term.

Its rhythmic foundations stem from Cuban music genres, such as son, mambo, and rumba. It also incorporates particular timbric approaches and other elements from Latin American genres from Puerto Rico, Panama, etc., as well as articulations on melody instruments closer to jazz and U.S.

Songo integrated several elements of North American styles like jazz, rock and funk in many different ways than mainstream salsa. Whereas salsa would superimpose elements of another genre in the bridge of a song, the songo was considered a rhythmic and harmonic hybrid (particularly regarding funk and clave-based Cuban ...

The basic son ensemble of early 20th-century Havana consisted of guitar, tres, claves, bongos, marímbula or botija, and maracas. The tres plays the typical Cuban ostinato figure known as guajeo. The rhythmic pattern of the following generic guajeo is used in many different songs.

tional Cuban music, and in particular in “salsa’s principal musical pred- ecessor,”8 the son, began to develop, reaching a veritable boom in the · late 1990s. This new development in turn leads to the need to look ... Cubans and non-Cubans. It catapulted the island’s music to a regionally · hegemonic position in the Spanish-Caribbean islands and littoral. Born in Cuba, the son became universal. Like jazz, a native of New

Born in the eastern provinces of Cuba (Oriente) in the late 19th century, where African-descended communities had preserved Bantu and Yoruba musical practices with remarkable fidelity, son combined these African elements (the clave rhythm, call-and-response vocals, percussion) with the ten-string Spanish guitar (tres cubano), resonant African bass (bongo and conga), and upright bass to create a sound of striking rhythmic sophistication and melodic warmth. The classic son structure alternates between the verso (sung stanzas) and the montuno (call-and-response improvised section), a formal division that lives on in much of the salsa and Latin jazz performance today.

Salsa music is based on mostly Cuban styles, yet it also developed as a popular dance hall ensemble format from the Cuban and Puerto Rican bands in New York during the 1950s and 1960s.

Son ~ Brief HistorySon known as the ‘The Father of Salsa’ is derived from Cuba’s African and Spanish roots, Son means ‘sound’, but it’s easiest to think of it as simply the basic, elemental ‘song’. Son played the function of telling the news of the countryside, and is the first ...