Wider Listening
Music: Edexcel GCSE, topic 5.2.4
Wider Listening
The following suggested pieces allow you to extend your knowledge of the set work by hearing other pieces that contain similar or contrasting features.
Cuban
- Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club.
- A mixture of Cuban music and jazz, this piece has a faster tempo and more instruments but is a good example of syncopated rhythms, jazz harmonies and virtuoso playing techniques.
Gillespie y Machito
- Dizzy Gillespie y Machito, Afro Cuban Jazz Moods.
- This album is very important to the establishment of Afro Cuban Jazz Music.
- The Cuban influences are heard in the rhythms of the percussion and the jazz influences are heard in Gillespie’s trumpet solos.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbbRfFSKLpk
Wider Listening
The following suggested pieces allow you to extend your knowledge of the set work by hearing other pieces that contain similar or contrasting features.
Gillespie y Machito
- Dizzy Gillespie y Machito, Afro Cuban Jazz Moods.
- This album is very important to the establishment of Afro Cuban Jazz Music.
- The Cuban influences are heard in the rhythms of the percussion and the jazz influences are heard in Gillespie’s trumpet solos.
Test yourself on Wider Listening
What is Buena Vista Social Club a good example of?