Machito and Mario Bauzá found the Afro-Cubans

1943-01-01 · 1943

In New York, Mario Bauzá left Cab Calloway’s jazz band to work with singer Frank “Machito” Grillo. Together they mixed Afro-Cuban popular music with jazz. That mix is usually dated to 1943. “the “invention” of Afro-Cuban jazz by Mario Bauzá and Machito in 1943 in New York City” — Ted Henken, music historian, “From Son to Salsa,” Latin American Research Review 41, no. 3 (2006), p. 198.

Genres: Jazz afrocubano