Christopher Washburne is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University and the Founder and Director of Columbia's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. As a trombonist, he has performed on over 150 recordings and leads his own SYOTOS Latin jazz band and the Rags and Roots jazz band.

The volume is well organized and includes an extensive bibliography...Highly Recommended.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Other Jazz Chapter 1: Why call it Latin Jazz? Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or just... Jazz: the politics of naming an intercultural musicChapter 2: Caribbean and Latin American Reverberations and the First Birth of Latin Jazz: New Orleans and the Spanish TingeChapter 3: The Second Birth of Latin Jazz: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington Do the RumbaChapter 4: El Tema del Apollo: Latin American and Caribbean music in HarlemChapter 5: The "Othering" of Latin Jazz Chapter 6: "More Cowbell": Latin Jazz in the 21st Century EpilogueReferences

Christopher Washburne is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University and the Founder and Director of Columbia's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. As a trombonist, he has performed on over 150 recordings and leads his own SYOTOS Latin jazz band and the Rags and Roots jazz band.

The volume is well organized and includes an extensive bibliography...Highly Recommended.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Other Jazz Chapter 1: Why call it Latin Jazz? Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or just... Jazz: the politics of naming an intercultural musicChapter 2: Caribbean and Latin American Reverberations and the First Birth of Latin Jazz: New Orleans and the Spanish TingeChapter 3: The Second Birth of Latin Jazz: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington Do the RumbaChapter 4: El Tema del Apollo: Latin American and Caribbean music in HarlemChapter 5: The "Othering" of Latin Jazz Chapter 6: "More Cowbell": Latin Jazz in the 21st Century EpilogueReferences

Christopher Washburne is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University and the Founder and Director of Columbia's Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. As a trombonist, he has performed on over 150 recordings and leads his own SYOTOS Latin jazz band and the Rags and Roots jazz band.

The volume is well organized and includes an extensive bibliography...Highly Recommended.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Other Jazz Chapter 1: Why call it Latin Jazz? Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or just... Jazz: the politics of naming an intercultural musicChapter 2: Caribbean and Latin American Reverberations and the First Birth of Latin Jazz: New Orleans and the Spanish TingeChapter 3: The Second Birth of Latin Jazz: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington Do the RumbaChapter 4: El Tema del Apollo: Latin American and Caribbean music in HarlemChapter 5: The "Othering" of Latin Jazz Chapter 6: "More Cowbell": Latin Jazz in the 21st Century EpilogueReferences