Afro Blue
Context
A composition by Mongo Santamaría, presented as the first jazz standard built on an African 3:2 polyrhythm: the bass plays six crossed pulses over four beats, on a pentatonic blues in B-flat. First known recorded performance on April 20, 1959 in Carmel, California, with Cal Tjader's sextet. Oscar Brown Jr. added lyrics to it in 1959; John Coltrane covered it in 1963, inverting the metric relationship.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban. Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).