Mario Bauzá

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Mario Bauzá

Mario Bauzá (born April 28, 1911 in Havana , Cuba , † July 11, 1993 in New York ) was one of the most influential musicians in the development of Latin jazz .

Life

Bauzá was trained as a classical musician in Havana and played the oboe and clarinet. At the age of 19 he emigrated to New York, where he supposedly learned to play the trumpet within two weeks. After his first engagements in Chick Webb 's orchestra, he met Dizzy Gillespie at Cab Calloway . Gillespie and Bauzá then worked together for many years. The fusion of Bauzá's Cuban style with Gillespie's bebop led to the development of cubop , an early, bebop- oriented form of Latin jazz. Bauzá owes its extraordinary role in this development to the nickname “the forefather of Latin jazz”. From 1941 to 1976 he was musical director of the Afro-Cubanos , whose singer and front man was his brother-in-law Machito . In the 1980s and 1990s, he led his own orchestra. During the celebrations on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in the New York theater Symphony Space, he met the German producer Götz Wörner , founder of the Messidor label . This connection resulted in three final productions with arrangements by Ray Santos and a tour that took him to Europe for the first time with his Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra . During his career, Bauzá played with famous jazz greats such as Charlie Parker , Ella Fitzgerald , Don Redman and Cab Calloway .

literature

  • Vernon Boggs: Salsiology. Afro-Cuban Music and the Evolution of Salsa in New York City . Greenwood Press, New York 1992, ISBN 0-313-28468-7 (Contributions to the study of music and dance; 26).
  • Charles Gerard, Marty Sheller : Salsa! The Rhythm of Latin Music . 3rd ed. White Cliffs Media, Crown Point, IN 1989, ISBN 0-941677-09-5 (Performance in world music series; 3).
  • Ed Morales: The Latin Beat. The Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music from Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond . Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2003, ISBN 0-306-81018-2 .
  • John S. Roberts: The Latin Tinge. The impact of Latin America . University Press, New York 1979, ISBN 0-19-502564-4 .
  • John S. Roberts: Latin Jazz. The First of the Fusions, 1880s to Today . Schirmer Books, New York 1999, ISBN 0-02-864681-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bauzá, Mario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauza, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban Latin Jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1993
Place of death new York