Malagueña (Pete La Roca)
Context
Opening track of Basra (9:01), a cover of the piece by Ernesto Lecuona. Pete La Roca's quartet with Joe Henderson, Steve Kuhn and Steve Swallow recorded it at Van Gelder's on 19 May 1965.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Modal, Hard bop, Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban. Among the origins and influences of Modal: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Hard bop, Bossa nova, jazz samba.