the first "official" afro-Cuban recording was "tanga" (slang for
marijuana) made my machito and his afro Cubans. the question as to
when afro-Cuban jazz was created is difficult to answer because it
deals with a sound and styles that are not specifically
commercialized music. i imagine that the first afro-Cuban sounds
were spiritual- dealing with the union of africans and Cubans as a
result of cuba being part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
-rwiza rweyemamu