Stefon Harris, David Sanchez, Christian Scott -- Ninety Miles: Boulder, CO, January 1

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Ninety Miles Macky Auditorium Boulder, CO January 17, 2013 Cuba has long held an allure for jazz musicians. The sounds and particularly the rhythms emanating from that country have influenced jazz nearly from the beginning. From early in the 20th Century, the Latin tinge, as m: Jelly Roll Morton called it, has seasoned the jazz sound. By the 1940s, through the work of musicians like m: Mario Bauza, m: Chano Pozo and m: Dizzy Gillespie, Afro Cuban jazz became an important part of the music. For nearly a century, American jazz musicians have been incorporating the sound of Cuba into American jazz. The now decades-long embargo by the United States on Cuba may have only made the country and its rhythms all the more tantalizing; forbidden fruit and all that...

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