NO Jazz and latin music

[terence]

Just watched a fab Doc. Tuba to Cuba.....

 

[Offbeat]

Where? Who produced it?

 

[Latinjazz]

Context with the thread title?

 

[terence]

It was on a UK TV channel. The title is what I wrote . The inspiration came from New Orleans jazz musicians ( the band has been plying since the 60s ,cant remember their name )

 

[1derpalm]

The Irony is that The Habanera rhythm influenced New Orleans jazz 1st. Jelly Roll Morton borrowed the concept and applied it to piano.

 

[DJ Yuca]

It's not irony - it's the reason why they go to Cuba. The leader of New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band seeks to fulfill his late father's dream of retracing their musical roots to the shores of Cuba in search of the indigenous music that gave birth to New Orleans jazz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tuba_to_Cuba

I love NO music but I prefer r&b, blues, soul and funk. In fact NO music was my obsession many years ago and I'll always have a soft spot for it.

The doc looks interesting (I've not seen it unfortunately).

 

[DJ Yuca]

Incidentally Jelly Roll Morton used to refer to it as 'the Spanish tinge'.

The Spanish tinge is an Afro-Latin rhythmic touch that spices up the more conventional 4
4 rhythms commonly used in jazz and pop music. The phrase is a quotation from Jelly Roll Morton. In his Library of Congress recordings, after referencing the influence of his own French Creole culture in his music, he noted the Spanish (read Cuban) presence:

Then we had Spanish people there. I heard a lot of Spanish tunes. I tried to play them in correct tempo, but I personally didn't believe they were perfected in the tempos. Now take the habanera "La Paloma", which I transformed in New Orleans style. You leave the left hand just the same. The difference comes in the right hand — in the syncopation, which gives it an entirely different color that really changes the color from red to blue. Now in one of my earliest tunes, "New Orleans Blues", you can notice the Spanish tinge. In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning, I call it, for jazz.

What Morton called "Spanish" were the tresillo and habanera rhythms of the Cuban contradanza ("habanera"). Morton demonstrated the "tinge" to Alan Lomax in the 1938 Library of Congress recordings.[1] What is known in Latin music as the habanera rhythm is also known as the congo,[2] tango-congo,[3] and tango.[4]

Morton categorized his compositions in three groups: blues, stomps, and Spanish tinge, for those with habanera rhythms. Tunes with the "tinge" include "New Orleans Blues" (a.k.a. "New Orleans Joys"), "La Paloma", "The Crave", and "The Spanish Tinge". Morton also called attention to the habanera in "St. Louis Blues" as one of the elements in the song's success.

Spanish tinge - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[terence]

It's not irony - it's the reason why they go to Cuba. The leader of New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band seeks to fulfill his late father's dream of retracing their musical roots to the shores of Cuba in search of the indigenous music that gave birth to New Orleans jazz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tuba_to_Cuba

I love NO music but I prefer r&b, blues, soul and funk. In fact NO music was my obsession many years ago and I'll always have a soft spot for it.

The doc looks interesting (I've not seen it unfortunately).

I wonder if IMDB has it.. they do have docs .Or in an ITV archive

 

[1derpalm]

Tbh I didn't watch it yet. Ironic was the incorrect word.