Ms. Bunnett, a saxophonist who has frequently traveled to Cuba in recent years, presents her accurate version of Cuban jazz.

The key figure in revealing the early days of Cuban jazz is Leonardo Acosta, musician and musicologist, who has been working on this topic for many years.

The blind Cuban pianist Frank Emilio Flynn, whose long career connected many tributaries of Cuban jazz, died Thursday at his home in Havana.

A key historian of early Cuban jazz is Leonardo Acosta.

Cuban jazz had started much earlier, in Havana, in the period 1910-1930.

In his hands the Tropicana presented not only Afrocuban and other popular Cuban music, but also Cuban jazz and American big band compositions.

Cuban jazz has continued to be a significant influence.

He also played in one or two early Cuban jazz bands (Early Cuban jazz) before moving to the United States in 1927.

Bands play Brazilian and Cuban, West African High Life, East European jazz, French hip-hop and electro-funk.

What also makes the work notable is the curious aspect of Cuban jazz having been largely frozen in time.