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An umbrella term that describes several types of predominantly instrumental Afro-Cuban jazz music that developed in New York City starting in the late 1940s when American musicians like Dizzy Gillespie formed groups with Cuban-born musicians. Unlike jazz-influenced Afro-Cuban dance music that preceded and would follow it (mambo, chachachá, big band rumba, etc.), Latin jazz was intended for listening rather than dancing, and was marked by lengthy, virtuoso instrumental solos. |
