Jazz Articles about Miguel de Armas

Miguel de Armas: What’s to Come

by C. Michael Bailey
April 28, 2018

Well, there is a word for it. tumbao. The Urban Dictionary defines, tumbao, as “An Afro-Puerto Rican word (or African Caribbean...), which means “an indescribable African sexiness or swing." I have always wanted to know what that thing in Latin jazz is: that certain attitude and approach that runs through the body when this music is heard. It is appropriate that this “thing" be defined as, and prove as elusive as, the concept of “swing" in the mainstream jazz vernacular. ...