I’ve been reading several books about it this month, including Ed Morales’s The Latin Beat. And that’s not because I’m trying to whitewash Latin American music or diminish the work of these musicians-it’s mostly because I don’t know a lot of it. To start, a little disclaimer: one thing I will not be doing much of this hour is featuring many authentic Latin American singers from this era, like Desi Arnaz, Beny Moré, or Celia Cruz. On this show, I’m exploring the influence of Latin American music on jazz and pop singers of the mid 20th-century. MUSIC CLIP - ARTIE SHAW AND HIS ORCHESTRA, “AFRO-CUBANA” And before that the 1940 Latin American hit song “Frenesi,” written by Alberto Domínguez. Just now, we heard the Enric Madriguera song "Adios,” a Latin American hit from 1931. Two songs from the 1959 album ¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May. It’s Latin Jazz in American Song, coming up next on Afterglow Coming up, we’ll hear how some notable singers adopted the Latin beat, including Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Anita O’Day, and more. Latin rhythms became an essential ingredient in early jazz, and so it’s natural that many American singers would seek out that dynamic percussion and even some authentic Latin American songs. This month marks National Hispanic Heritage Month, so on this week’s program, I thought I would salute the influence of Latin American music on jazz and pop from the 1940s and 50s. Welcome to Afterglow, I’m your host, Mark Chilla.
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