Sonny Stitt – The Matadores Meet The Bull

This one should be Afro Cuban Jazz. I am playing it right now (I bought the lp), and it features Tito Puente and Ray Baretto.

Edited by Mssr_Renard - 16 Mar 2023 at 1:27pm

One track is Latin Jazz and there is a Latin percussion breakdown on one song and there is one ballad, but the rest is hard bop with Latin percussion as an add on. Adding Latin percussion to hard bop and soul jazz records was common back then.

Edited by js - 16 Mar 2023 at 3:20pm

Mssr_Renard wrote: Okay we'll keep it hardbop then. I will edit the discogs-entry

Calling it Latin Jazz would not be way off as it does have a lot of Latin influences, but its definitely not Afro-Cuban jazz. Afro Cuban jazz has very specific rhythms and forms and there are names for all of the rhythms. Matt used to do a lot of the Afro-Cuban tagging for us, but he hasn't been around in a while.

^ The tag may be wrong, I'll check it out.

Of course, I forgot about the latin jazz-tag. Except for bossa nova, boogaloo and samba, it's the most used tag for anything with influences from latin America.

I will have to dig into the Afro-Cuban thing. I'm interested now. I know that Tito Puente is latin (Oye Como Va) and Barretto is Boogaloo, wich I like a lot, because of the soul/jazz hybrid. But apparently I was thrown off, and I know no Afro-Cuban jazz. I will check it out.