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Frank Emilio: Ancestral Reflections

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Imagine the ups and downs of Cuban professional musicianship through the decades since the Second World War: radio broadcasts and idolization in the 1940's, Dizzy Gillespie's discovery of the music in the 1940's, the spread of Cuban rhythms to the U.S. public in the 1950's, the crackdown on the dissemination of information and culture beyond the island from the start of the Castro regime in 1958, the struggle to maintain instruments and to export the music beyond Cuba in the ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Ancestral Reflections

Blue Note Records
2000

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Danzas Cubanas

Original Jazz Classics
1962

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Musica De Cervantes

Original Jazz Classics
1962

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