Mambo for Roy

Roy Hargrove's Crisol · 1997

Context

Track 9 of Habana (Verve, 1997), written and arranged by Chucho Valdés, and the longest on the record at 11 minutes. Habana, an album by Roy Hargrove's Crisol mixing Cuban and American musicians, won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Performance in 1998.

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).

By the same artist

• O My Seh Yeh (1997)
• Klactoveesedstene (1995)
• Marmaduke (1995)
• Steeplechase (1995)
• Hardgroove (2003)
• Strasbourg / St. Denis (2007)

Sources

• EN: Habana (album)

Jazzency text written from these pages. Method and licenses