Madres
Context
Opening track of Nueva Era, Daymé Arocena's first album, released in 2015 by Brownswood Recordings, Gilles Peterson's label. Recorded over a few days between London and Havana when the singer was 22, "Madres" draws on the Santería chants heard in her childhood.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide). Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).