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Michel Camilo · 1985

Context

Title track of Michel Camilo's first album, recorded in February 1985 and released by Electric Bird, with Anthony Jackson, Dave Weckl and Lew Soloff. Having arrived in New York in 1979 and hired by Paquito D'Rivera after the 1983 Montreal festival, the Dominican pianist made his Carnegie Hall debut in that same year, 1985.

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).

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