Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music

• Reevaluates the Apollo Theater as the most important Latin music stage
• Retraces the birth of jazz to 1716 and the first influx of Caribbean slaves to New Orleans
• Recognizes that jazz exists beyond the black-white binary in the US

Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has been all but erased from narratives of jazz history. Told from the perspective of a long-time jazz insider, Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz corrects the record, providing a historical account that embraces the genre's international nature and explores the dynamic interplay of economics, race, ethnicity, and nationalism that shaped it.