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Transcript: Canadian Jazz Musician Has Roots in Latin Rhythms
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- May 18, 1996
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Jane Bunnett is a jazz musician from Canada, but her influences are
Cuban and Brazilian melodies. She has been to Cuba scores of time
to pla
[excerpt of Latin music being performed]
JACKI LYDEN, Host: Jane Bunnett is a Canadian musician with a unique
Cuban connection. In dozens of trips to Havana, she's produced a
melange of North American jazz and Cuban beat. Canadians aren't fettered
by the U.S. embargo against Cuba, and Bunnett, a long-time fixture
on the Toronto jazz scene, where she plays flute and alto sax, has
put together a remarkable Cuban-Canadian-Brazil band.
JANE BUNNETT, Musician: In 1984 I had the opportunity to- to go to
Cuba for a ...