Bacalao con pan
Context
A track by the Cuban group Irakere, founded in 1973 by Chucho Valdés, on its first official album (Areíto, early 1974). A demo, now lost, is said to have played on Havana radio at least a year before the album; the classic version was recorded in Havana in 1974. The encyclopedia timba.com sees it as one of the roots of timba.
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).