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Double Bass Latin jazz standards - afro cuban?

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I have gig coming up in a Cuban restaurant playing 'Latin jazz'. I know a lot of jazz standards and many latin tunes wrtiten by jazz guys but not so many writen by South American musicians. The band leader mentioned 'Sabor' which I don't know. I have a done some salsa gigs and have studied those grooves a bit so I should be able to get by with the rhythm. I know we will be doing more afro cuban and less brazilian. I figure this would be a good chance to learn some tunes that are off my radar.

I have several books - 2 Cuban fake books and the Latin Real Book. What tunes should I be looking at?
 
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I do know Manteca and a few other Dizzy tunes. I'm familiar with many of the latin tunes writen by jazz musicians. It's guys like Mongo Santamaria, Cal Tjader, and other more latin oriented musicians who I'm not so familiar with.
 
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basss said:
I have gig coming up in a Cuban restaurant playing 'Latin jazz'. I know a lot of jazz standards and many latin tunes wrtiten by jazz guys but not so many writen by South American musicians. The band leader mentioned 'Sabor' which I don't know. I have a done some salsa gigs and have studied those grooves a bit so I should be able to get by with the rhythm. I know we will be doing more afro cuban and less brazilian. I figure this would be a good chance to learn some tunes that are off my radar.

I have several books - 2 Cuban fake books and the Latin Real Book. What tunes should I be looking at?
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basss said:
I have gig coming up in a Cuban restaurant playing 'Latin jazz'. I know a lot of jazz standards and many latin tunes wrtiten by jazz guys but not so many writen by South American musicians. The band leader mentioned 'Sabor' which I don't know. I have a done some salsa gigs and have studied those grooves a bit so I should be able to get by with the rhythm. I know we will be doing more afro cuban and less brazilian. I figure this would be a good chance to learn some tunes that are off my radar.

I have several books - 2 Cuban fake books and the Latin Real Book. What tunes should I be looking at?
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Hey! I play a lot of Cuban gigs in the NYC area. I can definitely help you out with this and give you some tunes you can check out, but need a little more info. What information did the bandleader give you (besides "sabor" of course)?
 
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basss said:
I have gig coming up in a Cuban restaurant playing 'Latin jazz'. I know a lot of jazz standards and many latin tunes wrtiten by jazz guys but not so many writen by South American musicians. The band leader mentioned 'Sabor' which I don't know. I have a done some salsa gigs and have studied those grooves a bit so I should be able to get by with the rhythm. I know we will be doing more afro cuban and less brazilian. I figure this would be a good chance to learn some tunes that are off my radar.

I have several books - 2 Cuban fake books and the Latin Real Book. What tunes should I be looking at?
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I suggest contacting your band leader for this gig, and ask him for the song list for this gig as well as the "as played by" version for each song. If he has charts, ask to see them in advance. It's in both of your interests for you to be as prepared as possible. If you can schedule a rehearsal great. If not, a music listening sit down-discussion with him and you could be fine.
 
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