Cubana Be, Cubana Bop
Context
Piece credited to Dizzy Gillespie and George Russell on the record label, recorded on December 22, 1947 in New York by Gillespie's orchestra with Chano Pozo on congas. Commissioned for a concert at Carnegie Hall in September 1947, it made Gillespie's Afro-Cuban style known, later called "cubop." Pozo was murdered in November 1948.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's). Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).