Editing Dizzy Gillespie (section)

===Afro-Cuban jazz===
[[File:Dizzy Gillespie Giants of Jazz 1973 Dia0002.jpg|thumb|Gillespie performing at a [[The Giants of Jazz|Giants of Jazz]] concert in 1973 (behind him is drummer [[Art Blakey]])]]
In the late 1940s, Gillespie was involved in the movement called [[Afro-Cuban music]], bringing [[Afro-Latin American]] music and elements to greater prominence in jazz and even pop music, particularly [[salsa music|salsa]]. [[Afro-Cuban jazz]] is based on traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms. Gillespie was introduced to [[Chano Pozo]] in 1947 by [[Mario Bauza]], a Latin jazz trumpet player. Chano Pozo became Gillespie's conga drummer for his band. Gillespie also worked with Mario Bauza in New York jazz clubs on 52nd Street and several famous dance clubs such as the [[Palladium (New York City)|Palladium]] and the [[Apollo Theater]] in [[Harlem]]. They played together in the Chick Webb band and Cab Calloway's band, where Gillespie and Bauza became lifelong friends. Gillespie helped develop and mature the Afro-Cuban jazz style. Afro-Cuban jazz was considered bebop-oriented, and some musicians classified it as a modern style. Afro-Cuban jazz was successful because it never decreased in popularity and it always attracted people to dance.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book |last1=Yanow |first1=Scott |title=Afro-Cuban Jazz |date=2000 |publisher=Miller Freeman |location=San Francisco |isbn=087930619X |url=https://archive.org/details/afrocubanjazz00yano }}</ref>

Gillespie's most famous contributions to Afro-Cuban music are [[Manteca (song)|"Manteca"]] and "Tin Tin Deo" (both co-written with Chano Pozo); he was responsible for commissioning [[George Russell (composer)|George Russell]]'s "Cubano Be, Cubano Bop", which featured Pozo. In 1977, Gillespie met [[Arturo Sandoval]] during a jazz cruise to Havana.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/165004207 |title=Jazz, si! Shows builds a bridge to Cuba |last=Feather |first=Leonard |date=May 29, 1977 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=October 1, 2018 |pages=1, 44–45}}</ref>  Sandoval toured with Gillespie and defected in Rome in 1990 while touring with Gillespie and the United Nation Orchestra.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/439424751 |title=Cuban trumpeter Sandoval defects to United States |last=Gonzalez |first=Fernando |date=August 1, 1990 |work=Boston Globe|access-date=October 1, 2018 |page=65}}</ref>