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by Piotr Michalowski
posted 8/1/2005
From its earliest days, American jazz has been influenced by its southern neighbors, from Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Jazz rhythm and phrasing reflects the clave beat of much Afro-Cuban music, but the connections extend to melody, harmony, and structure as well. The great New Orleans pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton famously referred to the
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