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- RumbaRama - West Coast percussionist Dennis Califa Reed has a selection of sound samples, and a discography of Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Latin music, including links to other Afro-Latin music sites.
- Explorations in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum - Humboldt State University Office of Extended Education presents the 6th annual Explorations in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum workshop to celebrate the folkloric music, songs, and dances of the Afro-Cuban people.
- Quimbombó - The name of this NY area band means "okra" in Spanish, and they play Afro-Cuban rhythms, salsa and latin jazz. Their page includes band member biographies, sound samples and booking information.
- Clave Concepts: Afro Cuban Rhythms - An explanation of the essential role of clave in Afro-Cuban music.
- Cuba Music. - With strong roots in West African Yoruba religious music, Cuba's highly syncopated, potent, percussion-rich music has spawned much of what is today's salsa and Latin jazz and greatly influenced musics all over the world. This site has both reviews and sound samples from many important recordings.
- Ile Ayan: The Sacred Power of Drum Sounds - Covers the African and Afro-Cuban tradition of sacred drum playing, the tumbadora, has a list of bata players, timbaleros, and bongoseros and a glossary of terms.
- Afro-Cuban All Stars - Group formed by Juan de Marcos Gonzalez as a multi-generational big band to pay tribute to the diversity of Cuban music. Label page includes bio, discography, photos and RealAudio song samples.
- Bata Ketu: A musical interplay of Cuba and Brasil - Bembe Records site for the Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian music of two American percussionists: Michael Spiro and Mark Lamson, includes biography, sound samples and cd information.
- Timba - New Styles in Afro-Cuban Popular Music - This paper by drummer Chuck Silverman, sheds some light on Timba, and on the possible outcomes of the music industry's effects on Cuban music and society.
- Valdez, Carlos - Homepage of Afro-Latin percussionist Carlos "Carlito" Valdez, composer for "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk", and musical director of Wemba.
Wikipedia Articles
- Afro-Cubans (band) - The Afro-Cubans were a latin jazz band founded by Machito in 1940; often billed as Machito and his Afro-Cubans. Their musical director, and an important musical innovator, was Mario Bauza, Machito's brother-in-law.
- Afro-Latin American - Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
- Afro-American religion - Afro-American religions (also African diasporic religions) are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands and Latin America, as well as parts of the southern United States. They derive of African traditional religions, especially of West and Central Africa, showing similarities to the Yoruba religion in particular.
- Afro-Cuban jazz - Afro-Cuban jazz is a variety of Latin jazz, which was started by Dr. Obdulio Morales in the 1930s,(Cuba).
- Chico Alvarez (artist) - Ernesto "Chico" Alvarez Peraza (otherwise known to the Latin music world as Chico Alvarez) is a Cuban American artist of Latin American music who has been performing as a singer throughout the New York City tri-state area for the last four decades. He currently performs with the Afro-Cuban band Mafimba and is also the host of a Latin jazz radio show on Sunday afternoons at WBAI ...