Which Afro-Cuban Jazz style blended mambo and habanera with bebop and uses 2-3 or 3-2 clave?

• A. Blues
• B. Latin Jazz
• C. Bossa Nova
• D. Impressionist Music

Answer: (B)

Afro-Cuban jazz that blends mambo and habanera with bebop builds its rhythmic foundation on the clave, a repeating pattern that guides accents across measures in 2-3 or 3-2 configurations. When Cuban rhythms fuse with the improvisational language of bebop, and musicians structure passages around the clave, the result is Latin Jazz. This style is distinct from blues, which lacks the Afro-Cuban rhythmic framework; from Bossa Nova, which comes from Brazil with its own feel and clave approach; and from Impressionist Music, which is a European art-music movement unrelated to these Afro-Cuban jazz elements.