"The jazz standard ‘Manteca’ was the product of a collaboration between Charles Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie and Cuban musician, composer and dancer Luciano (Chano) Pozo González. ‘Manteca” signified one of the beginning steps on the road from Afro-Cuban rhythms to Latin jazz. In the years leading up to 1940, Cuban rhythms and melodies migrated to the United States, while, simultaneously, the sounds of American jazz traveled across the Caribbean. Musicians and audiences acquainted themselves with each other’s musical idioms as they played and danced to rhumba, conga and big-band swing. ...”
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