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Festival in Havana

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: Tumbando Ca

Various: Festival in Havana

by Derek Taylor
October 13, 2003

Back in the heyday of Mose Asch’s Folkways Records in the late 1940s there was a certain academic bent to the collection and preservation of indigenous forms of music. Teams of folklorists, funded by research branches of prominent universities, hit the roads or flew to locales far and wide, ungainly recording apparatuses in tow, in admirable ...