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This three-hour documentary hosted by Harry Belafonte first aired on PBS in 1997, and traces the development of Latin music from its origins in West Africa to Spain and on to Cuba, where many influences were brought together by the transatlantic slave trade, creating a myriad of new, hybrid musical creations like the rumba, tumba francesa, danzon, and mambo. In New York Cuban and African American jazz musicians like Machito, Mario Bauza, and Dizzy Gillespie melded mambo rhythms to bebop, creating Latin jazz. And on to the king and queen of salsa in the '60s, timbales master Tito Puente and vocalist Celia Cruz. The film offers revealing interviews and music clips with many Latin music stars, and some rare archival footage.
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