Latin Jazz

Huw – Solo Electro Acoustic Guitarist And Vocalist

Huw – Solo Electro Acoustic Guitarist And Vocalist

London-based guitarist and singer, who plays both his own compositions and a wide range of pop, Latin, jazz and soul classics.

London Bossanovas

London Bossanovas

This Smooth Latin Jazz Band is perfect to create a chilled out relaxing ambience yet upbeat . The quartet line-up includes piano, bass guitar, drums and female Brazilian singer.

Samba Jazz Band

Samba Jazz Band

Samba Jazz band has played in different events around the UK. Having a repertoire of Brazilian/Latin and International music. It's tailored for any events

Gui’s Brazilian Jazz Ensemble

Gui’s Brazilian Jazz Ensemble

Gui is a Brazilian songwriter and music professional based in London who produces and coordinates many of his own projects and shows

Katy’s Vintage Latin Ensemble

Katy’s Vintage Latin Ensemble

Their sound is born out of the individual members' musical styles and cultural roots and their love of 40’s Jazz and Rock-n-Roll, 50’s Mambo and Rockabilly and 60’s Bossa-Nova and Cool Jazz.

Latin Jazz Duo

Latin Jazz Duo

Combining a sophisticated repertoire of Jazz and Classical tunes with a strong Latin flavour, The Duo presents a highly evocative performance combining exciting rhythms, alluring melodies, virtuosity and colour.

Cultural Origins of Latin Jazz begin with Cuba, New York City in particular, the States and Brazil.

Following rhythms and styles of Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music, blended with percussion, giving a balanced fusion of European and African sound.

Latin Jazz was a result of a long process of nteraction between American and Cuban music styles intertwined together to form 20th Century New Orleans’ early Jazz, that had a distinctive syncopated (accents transitioned to weaker beats) rhythmic character.

The city’s well renowned pianist and composer at the time, Jelly Roll Morton, referred to the Latin influence on Jazz as a “Spanish Tinge”.

The Cuban Habanera Rhythm was very quickly adopted by American Musicians (a syncopated four beat pattern) and could be heard in many of their compositions; especially the popular 1914’s St Louis Blues by W. C. Handy.

Sounds of American Jazz eventually spread through to the Caribbean simultaneously as Latin American melodies and dance rhythms made their way to North America Regions.

Across the entire region, both musicians and bands became more versed with the musical languages, where larger bands soon expanded their own repertoire into congas and rumbas, two types of Afro-Cuban dance music.

Drummers of Afro-Cuban style music played a fundamental role in developing Latin Jazz from the late 1940s through to the 1960s, as it gave the genre its visibly inexhaustible stream of rhythmic patterns, phrasings, and styles all through the means of percussion.

As time progressed, by the early 21st century,Latin Jazz gained popularity and critical acclaim as well as became one of the most dynamic and diverse components of the Jazz World.