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If Fred Astaire Got Grit and Was Swept up by Cuban Orishas

If Fred Astaire Got Grit and Was Swept up by Cuban Orishas

Dancer and percussionist Max Pollak has performed for Fidel Castro one night and rural Cuban sugar workers the next. He has painstakingly transcribed a Mongo Santamaria timbales solo for six tap dancers and has traded moves (and shoes) with Cubas rumba masters. It all started when Pollak realized he not only wanted to play Afro-Cuban music, ...


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