Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz Explained 

Thanks. You're writing the Jazz Bible, I'm learning a lot with your videos.

Thanks a lot for helping spread the music from my country Cuba 🇨🇺. There are some concepts on this video that are a little bit old. The way we play Latin Jazz has evolved a lot. We don’t play the montuno during the whole song anymore. And with the influence from timba and other Cuban styles, Latin Jazz today sounds way different than what is was 70 years ago. 😊👍🎶 Nonetheless, thanks for the video

17:20 - That's what I'm talkin' about, just like my days back at the Havana

Takes a very complex concept and shows you how to understand, feel and play it with confidence. Best one I've seen on you tube so far...GROOVING and COOL.

I'm so thankful for your videos. You're doing a great job. That was exactly what I was looking for.

You are a terrific teacher in that you speak so clearly. But people have to have knowledge of piano music to know what you are explaining. My niece is a classical pianist who came out on top in India in 2014. I am interested to introduce her to your lessons on Cuban Jazz or Brazilian jazz for her to internalize them.

maybe the best breakdown i have heard, and ive been dancing saIsa and afrocuban dances for 13 years

Thanks for this tutorial. As a screenwriter and songwriter this video is an eye opener

Damn, these lessons are so good. As you hit the fundamentals, I'm "yeah, that's the sound", the you extend it and it's foll of the colours and vibe of that sound.

Wow this is so coherent and impressive. The first half of the video seemed simple enough and almost sterile. And then as soon as you combined both hands on the piano it was like pure magic. Your breakdown is masterful. Thank you so much!

Amazing lesson, so clear, so pedagogical. Thanks for sharing your passion!

The way you said "a boogie-woogie" made me think of Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder saying "A Wubble"

nothin will internalize these rhythms more than dancing! go out and dance ,the rhythms will slowly sink in !

Quite amazed about how much complex knowledge you just gave us for free in a 20-minute video. God bless you and boost your karma! Thank you

An excellent Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz tutorial ! Thank you.

never can get over how clear and concise these vids are ..❤

How the hell did I miss your page these years??? Oh man, you’re an awesome teacher!!! Thank you for your knowledge and selfless sharing!!! :-)

Much respect for this tutorial!

Thanks for another interesting and educating video! Yet another genre I'm now eager to explore. Looking forward to see the one on Afro-Brazilian jazz, which I guess was my entry point to jazz music.

Awesome video- thank you for the super concrete and detailed explanation

Super loving your lessons. Thank you.

Excellent and very thorough!

People like u make internet such a nice tool, thank u, really thank u, my dear stranger

Just discovered you! Amazing channel! You'll do very well in RU-vid. Thanks for this great video 👍🏼

Incredible video, I learned a lot man thank you very very much

Thank you very much for breaking it down.

Thanks for a really clear video!

Beautiful tutorial and so useful! Thanks

Good breakdown!

Guitarist here trying out transposing salsa to the guitar. The part about second inversion arpeggios was especially helpful

Really nice explaination of how it works. Very usefull for all people who want to do something with latin/latinjazz.

Thanks for the explanation i'm actually studying these patterns and You just clear it very well to me🙏🙏🙏👍👍

kudos, nicely done. I liked your tutorial. As a salsa pianist I thought this to be very informative.

thanks for the rythm examples

Very nicely done. Thank you.

Thank you! Very clear explanation!

Very well explained! Thanks for the video!

great lesson, thanks very much !

Love your slides

yeahh at the end i was able to get it, for the love of... THANKS FROM DEEP OF MY HEART , i grow up with this music, i was aware about the layers, and how in west africa groove builded in simple layers that give the dancers and the story tellers a basement , but honestly I was never able to play it, now its clear in my mind.

Thanks for the great explanation and performance,Greetings from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Nice! Also looking forward to the Afro-Brazilian part!

Great! Very informative!

Very cool! 😎

Amazing. Thank you.

Excellent tutorial.

So helpful thank you

This is so priceless thank you

Very GREAT explanation ❤️🙏👍🙏🙏

Very Helpful, thank you

Your piano sound beautiful

Great lesson 🙏

Very well explained, thanks.

Great lessons

Super! Thanks a lot!

3:36 very useful to clarify Clave. I'm clapping right now! Thank you.

Even 6 years ago this info was outdated. Still like the video. Interesting.

Great lesson as always. Thanks! Maybe in the future you could insert some more piano playing to show the examples and to break the long spoken segments. Personally I tend to drift off. Your channel is priceless!

Thank you very much!!!

Excellent thank you for sharing 💯😎🙏🎹

wonderful explanation

Whatever I want to learn, I find it in your channel, Many Thanks

Muchas Gracias !

how cool your videos are!!

Thank you!

I totally agree w. Raúl! Also, the rhythmic pattern/concept is called "clave," but the instrument consisting of 2 cylindrical sticks are called "claves!" You don't have to have the actual clave pattern being played on the claves or a woodblock in order to play or write "in" clave. The pattern should be internalized & the melodic & rhythmic phrases should always adhere to the pattern! BTW, the stress is on the first syllable of the term, cáscara, hence the written accent on the first á! The cáscara (shell) pattern is played on the side (shell) of the timbales, hence the name! The cencerro (cowbell) pattern should be played on the mambo cowbell, not the smaller, higher pitched cha cha cowbell, both of which are mounted on the timbales. Finally, although based on Afro-Cuban rhythms, "the Salsa" is not an Afro-Cuban genre!

Thanks for the detailed straight forward presentation. I would have enjoyed hearing you play with the clave rhythm, maybe a drum machine, or a loop. Probably make it easier for us to feel the rhythm.

awesome TUTORIAL....CÁS- ca- ra ( accent on first syllable )

THANKS

La Negra Tomasa very good tutorial!!!!!

i don't think I will ever 'feel' these rhythms. I guess that I could play them mechanically after lots of practice. But listening to you play it on piano, I feel like I'm split in half - one half listening for downbeats and the other half listening for upbeats or sixteenths that fall at weird spots. I feel like my head will explode. I guess if you grew up with these beats, they seem normal. To me, it's like someone took a drum machine, got drunk, and tapped the keys. I keep wanting to hear a kick drum on one and three and a snare on 2 and 4 just to feel normal again lol.

So helpful. RU-vid can be like school sometimes, even better....

Wow

alemarquis has very nice cover songs, nothing like the salsa from the 60s, 70s and early 80s. Pianists Charlie and Eddie Palmieri, Richie Ray, Papo Lucca, Harlow, Markolino Dimond and many more

wow excelent lesson... im wondering if you have some ragtime explanations like this one

I'm really impressed with this lesson! Just wanted to add that you explained how to create the "Salsa sound" rhythmic layering. A real-life Salsa tune tends to have a unique tune structure: The first part consists of one repeating chord progression and montuno and rhythmic arrangement. Then there's one distinct peak point in the song that starts another section, with new chord progression, arrangement, montuno. So the structure looks like this: AAA-peak point-BBB (Salsa musicians joke that everything in Salsa structure repeats in multiples of 3). The BBB choruses tend to have more arrangements elements such as: *B theme (Coro) over the B progression *B improvisation (Soneo) over the B progression- usually vocals Or simply a section only with montuno and percussion and the bass stops playing or playing slides, then going back to full arrangement. I know this is about Salsa, but I really wish there was more Latin Jazz in the Salsa structure. I recommend listening to Timba and Salsa- for example N.G. La Banda - ¡Que Viva Changó!, Hector Lavoe-juanito alimaña, ray barretto - indestructible, Manteca · Poncho Sanchez.

This is the best explanation that I’ve found of this matter. Thank you

🔥🔥🔥 ¡Muy caliente! 🔥🔥🔥

For the left hand Tumbao, you count 1 2 n 3 4 and hit E on the 3. The way it's written, E actually lands on 'n'. Beat 3 is a rest. Please double check.

Super cool! Thanks for this amazing lesson. Just one question. What would a rhythm guitarist play in an afro cuban band?

Please do a video like this for other Afro Caribbean jazz influenced music like plena and soca

another great vid! thanks for all your effort!! a quick production tip, take more talking breaks were you play the piano and give examples, it would help break the video up and make it seem more inviting. thank you again.

i cant wait for the video on the afro Brazillian video. also do you have a patreon? if you did id be more than happy to contribute

Hi, your version of con carne is diffrent then i know ,where u get that? BRO AND I APPRECIATE THESE VIDEOS A LOT! GOD BLESS YOU

Thank you so much for your videos! You're so knowledgeable and accurate!

Chitlin con carne clave is called Bosa Nova clave

do you cover the bossa nova? It really helps because you explain everything very well. Will learn from you in the future for sure

That’s amazing! Thanks for giving us such quality content for free. I was wondering, could you do Afrobeat too? Since you have done most of the genres it’s influenced by (Jazz and Funk) and covered a somewhat similar genre(Afro-Cuban Jazz)? Thanks again

what a great tutorial!! thank you so much for it, would be awesome to have more latin jazz and salsa tutorials thanks from colombia :D

Jazz; Classic, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian, or Smooth all from the GENIUS of so call Black People and naturally the best teachers of IT!!

it was good very just to clarify

9:16 -personal note

If you divide the muntjno into eighth notes, & use the “&” counting method, the piano would play: 1, 2, &, -, &, -, &.

Hi Sir, do you conduct lessons on online?

do have loops, samples, midi, rex for piano in this style?

Mario Bauza The first jazz piece to be overtly based in-clave, and therefore, the first true Latin jazz piece, was "Tanga" (1943) composed by Mario Bauza and recorded by Machito and his Afro-Cubans the same year, 1943. The tune was initially a descarga (Cuban jam) with jazz solos superimposed, spontaneously composed by Bauzá.

Este ingles tiene sabor..

I think you're over-generalizing a bit to say that you always keep the harmony simple and that its all about rhythm because often the harmonic composition can become complex once you get into more modern stuff.

Had a clinician once who taught us the rhythms in a unique way: Cascara: "East St. Louis/Please pass the ketchup in East St. Louis/Please pass..." Cencerro: "Dipped in peanut butter/I like to eat apples dipped in peanut butter..."

Please help , why in some examples you use 6 accord inversion , and at another 7th?? C6 sounds more like a salsa , than C7 , and yes , A7 sound more salsa than A6 But a can't understand this magic ))