Machito

Most jazz musicians, listeners and critics in the U.S. recognize basic signposts to the intersections of Latin music and American jazz: trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's work with the Cuban bandleader Frank "Machito" Grillo and with percussionist Chano Pozo in the 1940s; Louis Armstrong's 1930 recording of the Cuban song "El Manisero"; Creole pianist Jelly Roll Morton's even earlier assertion that jazz had to have a "Spanish tinge" to be authentic.

The Son Also Rises -- Larry Blumenfeld 2008

Over in the Sheldon forums, Stickfodder just posted up some first-pass CAD images of the scout ship "Machito" from

Sheldon® Comic Strip: Daily webcomic by Dave Kellett 2010

Over in the Sheldon forums, Stickfodder just posted up some first-pass CAD images of the scout ship "Machito" from

Sheldon® Comic Strip: Daily webcomic by Dave Kellett 2010

Latin American Nueva Yorkers like Machito, for example, teamed up with African American jazzmen to create new musical hybrids.

Exhibit Explores New York's Latin Roots 2010

Latin American Nueva Yorkers like Machito, for example, teamed up with African American jazzmen to create new musical hybrids.

Exhibit Explores New York's Latin Roots 2010

Unlike his rival Machito, Prado's mambo stripped out the complicated solos and concentrated on quirky riffs, appealing to the dancefloor and selling this thrilling exotic sound to middle America.

Perez Prado goes to Hollywood 2011

Perhaps because of his experience in both areas, Chico O'Farrill was commissioned to write the classic "Afro Cuban Suite" in 1950, which united Charlie Parker with Machito's Orchestra.

O'Farrill Flies Birdland's Coop Will Friedwald 2011

Just before the cold weather arrives, here's your last chance to heat things up with three big Afro-Cuban-Latin jazz events, two of which are at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall: In the big Rose Theater, Wynton Marsalis and the full JaLC Orchestra honor the pioneering innovators of the form, starting with Mario Bauza and Machito, whose breakthrough work is still echoing across the Pan-Americas today.

Good Vibrations, Great Traditions Will Friedwald 2010

Mr. Sanabria feels that Mr. Puente continued the groundbreaking work of Bauza with Machito's Afro-Cubans.

Long Live the Mambo King Will Friedwald 2011

Latin American Nueva Yorkers like Machito, for example, teamed up with African American jazzmen to create new musical hybrids.

Exhibit Explores New York's Latin Roots 2010