Jazz & Fusion
Cuban ensembles that bridged Afro-Cuban tradition with jazz, classical music, and international influences — the experimentalists who expanded what Cuban music could do.
Cuba produced some of the 20th century's great jazz musicians, and the tension between Cuban popular dance music and jazz-influenced experimentation runs through the entire history of the island's music. The groups here pushed into that territory — and in doing so trained the musicians who went on to define timba"> Timba.
Timba is the music this site is dedicated to exploring. It emerged as a distinct genre in the late 1980s and crystallized in the early 1990s — born in a moment of social crisis, built on the full accumulated history of Cuban music, and still evolving today.
Lees meer >A Cuban popular dance music genre that emerged in the 1980s–90s
- emerged in the 1980s–90s
- influenced by songo, rumba, funk, blues, jazz, pop, rock and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
- Known for complex rhythm shifts, aggressive bass lines, and high energy that push dancers to improvise.
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