Latin jazz mixes rhythms from African and South American nations, regularly played on instruments like conga, timbale, giro, and claves, with jazz and classical harmonies played on classic jazz instruments ( piano, double bass, and so on. ). There are 2 main varieties : Afro-Cuban jazz was played in the USA straight after the bebop period, while Brazilian jazz became more well-liked in the 1960s.

Afro-Cuban jazz started as a movement in the mid-1950s as bebop musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Taylor started Afro-Cuban bands influenced by such Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians as Xavier Cugat, Tito Puente, and Arturo Sandoval. Brazilian jazz like bossa nova springs from samba, with influences from jazz and other 20 th century classical and favored music styles. Bossa is normally tolerably paced, with tunes sung in Portuguese or English. The style was pioneered by Brazilians Joo Gilberto and Antnio Carlos Jobim. The related term jazz-samba describes a modification of bossa nova compositions to the jazz idiom by American performers like Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd. Bossa nova was made favorite by Elizete Cardoso's recording of Chega de Saudade on the Cano do Amor Demais LP, composed by Vincius de Moraes ( lyrics ) and Antonio Carlos Jobim ( music ). The first releases by Gilberto and the 1959 film Black Orpheus brought important recognition in Brazil and some place else in South America, which spread to Northern America through visiting American jazz musicians. The resulting recordings by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd cemented its acceptance and led on to a global boom with 1963's Getz / Gilberto, countless recordings by famous jazz performers like Ella Fitzgerald ( Ella Abraa Jobim ) and Frank Sinatra ( Francis Albert Sinatra & Antnio Carlos Jobim ), and the entrenchment of the bossa nova style as a lasting influence in world music for several decades and even up to the present.