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The CMPR's Jazz and Caribbean Music program fosters the technical development of the instrument and the fundamental elements of harmony, theory, improvisation, and styles characteristic of jazz and Caribbean music.
28 maj 2024 · The orchestras at the different towns in Puerto Rico kept their musical offer of Danzas, Plenas and music from Latin America, but they began to include in their music repertoire styles heard from the United States military bands, such as Ragtime, precursor of what later would be called Jazz.
El programa de Jazz y Música Caribeña del CMPR fomenta el desarrollo técnico del instrumento y de los elementos fundamentales de armonía, teoría, improvisación y estilos característicos del jazz y la música caribeña.
29 maj 2021 · In 1992 he revolutionized Puerto Rican music when he introduced the sub-genre Afro-Rican Jazz, an innovative blend of traditional Puerto Rican rhythms, folk, dance, progressive jazz, and World Music. A protégé of the late, great Dizzy Gillespie, Cepeda was a member of the United Nations Orchestra.
3 lut 2021 · In 1992, he revolutionized Puerto Rican music by introducing Afro-Rican Jazz, an innovative fusion of traditional Puerto Rican roots, Folk, Dance, Progressive Jazz, and World Music. A protégé of the late great Dizzy Gillespie , Cepeda was a member of the United Nations Orchestra.
The music culture in Puerto Rico during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is poorly documented. Certainly, it included Spanish troubadour, church music, military band music, and diverse genres of dance music cultivated by the jíbaros and enslaved Africans and their descendants. While these later never constituted more than 11% of the island's population, they contributed to some of the ...
25 lut 2012 · The organizers of the internationally recognized Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival, make their contribution to music, with grants for the Puerto Rican youth to continue studies in one of the most prestigious music school, Berklee College of Music.