By Gary Walker Arturo O’Farrill makes music steeped in the pantheon of Afro-Latin culture. He can’t help it. It’s in his DNA. In addition to playing the piano, O’Farrill is a composer, arranger and bandleader — much like his man, the legendary Chico O’Farrill, whose band of the mid-1940s warped the dance floor of the famed

Note on General Midi and Sound Blaster compatible cards : The patches found in the GM (General Midi) standard include a very limited set of conga sounds.

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Q: What’s in a name? ( A note on naming conventions ) I use names for these rhythms which tend to be accepted among the community of drummers that I have known and the sparse documentation that exists on this (extremely folk) tradition.

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In music, the term swing has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the sense of propulsive rhythmic “feel” or “groove” created by the musical interaction between the performers, especially when the music creates a “visceral response” such as feet-tapping or head-nodding (see pulse).

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Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms. Although musicians continually expand its parameters, the term Latin jazz is generally understood to have a more specific meaning than simply “jazz from Latin America”.