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Mario Bauzá
12+ albums
latin jazzCu-Boptrumpetjazzmambo
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Mario Bauzá (28 April 1911 – 11 July 1993) was a Cuban trumpeter and big band director. An important musician, he was one of the first to introduce Latin music to the United States by bringing Cuban musical styles into the New York jazz scene. While Cuban bands had popular jazz tunes in their repertoire for years, Bauzá's composition "Tanga" was the first piece to blend jazz with clave, and is considered the first true Afro-Cuban jazz, or Latin jazz tune. Trained as a classical musician, he was a clarinetist in the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra by the age of nine, where he would stay for three years. Bauzá traveled to New York in 1925 to record with Maestro Antonio María Romeu's band, a charanga, shortly after his fourteenth birthday.[citation needed] Bauzá returned to Cuba but moved back to New York in 1930 and reputedly learned to play trumpet in just over two weeks in order to earn a spot in Don Azpiazú's Orchestra. This was in need of a trumpeter to play on recordings for RCA Victor. Bauzá had been hired as lead trumpeter and musical director for Chick Webb's Orchestra by 1933, and it was during his time with Webb that Bauzá both met fellow trumpeter Dizzie Gillespie and discovered and brought into the band singer Ella Fitzgerald. Importantly, Bauzá introduced the young Havana virtuoso Chano Pozo to Dizzy, when the latter wanted to add a Cuban percussionist to his band; though Pozo was killed in a Harlem bar fight just a year later, he left an indelible and long-lasting
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albums
Afro-Cuban Jazz
Tanga
My Time Is Now
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Termidor Afro Cuban Masters
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The Rough Guide to the Cuban Music Story
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The Rough Guide to the Music of Cuba
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The Rough Guide To Salsa
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Rough Guide to the Cuban Music Story
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Rough Guide to Salsa
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CUBA: I Am Time (Disc 4 - Jazz)
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Rough Guide to the Music of Cuba
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The Rough Guide Cuba