Latin Jazz

Gui- Brazilian Musician

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

The Latin Twist

The Latin Twist is a Live Band comprising three experienced South American Musicians that play popular classic English pop hit songs in Latin and Cuban Styles.

The Wild Card Band

Wild Card is a melting pot of musical ideas, fusing urban rhythms and grooves with a Latin attitude. The music is dynamic, exuberant and flamboyant. appealing to jazz fans and more mainstream-music lover alike.

Latin Brazilian Party Band

Since 2003, this established band has built up a reputation for being possibly the most versatile party band in the UK and abroad – Europe, Middle-East, Africa, and Brazil.

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.

Luque – Flamenco & Classic Pop & Latin Style Guitarist

An expert Finger Style Flamenco Guitarist originally from Barcelona and currently based in London.

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.