Jazz & Fusion
Cuban ensembles that bridged Afro-Cuban tradition with jazz, classical music, and international influences — the experimentalists who expanded what Cuban music could do.
Cuba produced some of the 20th century's great jazz musicians, and the tension between Cuban popular dance music and jazz-influenced experimentation runs through the entire history of the island's music. The groups here pushed into that territory — and in doing so trained the musicians who went on to define Timba.
Timba is the music this site is dedicated to exploring. It emerged as a distinct genre in the late 1980s and crystallized in the early 1990s — born in a moment of social crisis, built on the full accumulated history of Cuban music, and still evolving today.
Lees meer >Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean and the birthplace of some of the world's most influential music and dance traditions. African, Spanish, and French cultural streams collided here over centuries of colonial history, producing an extraordinary creative culture that exported itself across the globe.
Lees meer >A Cuban popular dance music genre that emerged in the 1980s–90s
- emerged in the 1980s–90s
- influenced by songo, rumba, funk, blues, jazz, pop, rock and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
- Known for complex rhythm shifts, aggressive bass lines, and high energy that push dancers to improvise.
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