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Ancestral Reflections

By Frank Emilio

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2000
Track listing:

Guerra de Flautas; Rico Melao; La Mulata Rumbera; La Conga Se Va; Rumba Elegante; Bilongo; El Arroyo Que Murmura; Juventud de Pueblo Luevo; Reflejos Ancestrales

Frank Emilio: Ancestral Reflections

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2000

Imagine the ups and downs of Cuban professional musicianship through the decades since the Second World War: radio broadcasts and idolization in the 1940's, Dizzy Gillespie's discovery of the music in the 1940's, the spread of Cuban rhythms to the U.S. public in the 1950's, the crackdown on the dissemination of information and culture beyond the ...