The phrase Spanish Tinge is a reference to the belief that a Latin American touch offers a reliable method of spicing the more conventional 4/4 rhythms commonly used in jazz and pop music. The phrase is a quotation from Jelly Roll Morton. In his Library of Congress recordings, after referencing the influence of his own French Creole culture in his music, he noted the Spanish presence: Latin American music, sometimes simply called Latin music, includes the music of many countries and comes in many varieties, from the simple, rural conjunto music of northern Mexico to the sophisticated habanera of Cuba, from the symphonies of Heitor Villa-Lobos to the simple and moving Andean flute. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941) was an American virtuoso pianist, a bandleader, and a composer who some call the first true composer of Jazz music. ... // The Tracks 1. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Then we had Spanish people there. I heard a lot of Spanish tunes. I tried to play them in correct tempo, but I personally didn't believe they were perfected in the tempos. Now take "La Paloma", which I transformed in New Orleans style. You leave the left hand just the same. The difference comes in the right hand -- in the syncopation, which gives it an entirely different color that really changes the color from red to blue.

Now in one of my earliest tunes, "New Orleans Blues", you can notice the Spanish tinge. In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning, I call it, for jazz.

Specifically, Morton categorized his compositions in three groups as blues, stomps, and Spanish Tinge, for those with habanera rhythms.[1]. These included in "New Orleans Blues", "La Paloma", "The Crave", and "The Spanish Tinge". La Paloma (S.Iradier) La Paloma is one of the most popular songs ever written, having been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. ... Blues music redirects here. ... Look up habanera in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Morton called attention to the habanera in "St. Louis Blues" as one of the elements in the song's success. St. ...

Morton's maxim, usually given now as "You've got to have that Spanish Tinge", has proven to be apt for many artists to this day. Latin rhythm instruments are employed by artists of all sorts and many compositions are express applications of the Spanish Tinge.

Notable examples of the Spanish Tinge include:

• Juan Tizol's "Caravan" and "Perdido", first performed by Duke Ellington
• "Rum and Coca Cola" by the Andrews Sisters, an imported calypso song
• the "blues rhumba" of Professor Longhair
• "Early in the Morning" and numerous calypso-style hits by Louis Jordan
• Afro-Cuban jazz, as adopted and promoted by Dizzy Gillespie, Mongo Santamaria and many others
• "Little Darling" by The Marigolds, with its insistent clave beat and Latin rhythms
• "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters, produced by Cuban-American Bert Berns with triangle, guiro, and castanets
• "What'd I Say", "I'm Moving On" (congas and maracas on a country and western cover) and many other Ray Charles songs
• Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain"
• Chuck Berry's "La Juanda" and "Havana Moon", the latter also inspiring "Louie Louie"
• The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil", which is a samba.

See also Latin music in the United States. Juan Tizol (31 December 1900 - 23 April 1984) was a Puerto Rican trombonist and composer of Caravan and Perdido. Category: ... Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974), also known simply as Duke (see Jazz royalty), was an American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader. ... The Andrews Sisters on the cover of the reissue collection The Best of the Andrew Sisters: The Millennium Collection. ... Calypso might refer to one of several things: Calypso is the name of a sea nymph in Greek mythology; Calypso music is a style of Caribbean folk music; Calypso is the name of an album sung by Harry Belafonte; Calypso is the name of a moon of Saturn; 53 Kalypso... Image of the artist Professor Longhair (nee Henry Roeland Byrd and aka Fess) (December 19, 1918 - January 30, 1980) was a legendary New Orleans blues musician. ... Louis Jordan swinging on sax, Paramount Theatre, NYC, 1946 (Photo: William P. Gottlieb) Louis Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering African-American blues, jazz and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. ... Afro-Cuban jazz is a variety of Latin jazz. ... John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. ... Ramón Mongo Santamaría (April 7, 1922 – February 1, 2003) was an Afro-Cuban drummer. ... The term clave may refer to Clave, a rhythmic pattern Claves, a percussion instrument This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Under the Boardwalk is a hit pop song written by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick and recorded by The Drifters in 1964. ... The Drifters were a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, originally formed by Clyde McPhatter (of Billy Ward & the Dominoes) in 1953. ... Bertrand Russell Berns (November 8, 1929 - December 30, 1967) (a/k/a Bert Russell and Bert Berns) was one of the great American songwriters and record producers of the 1960s. ... Categories: Music stubs | Latin percussion | Idiophones ... Renoirs 1909 painting Dancing girl with castanets Castanets The castanets are a percussion instrument (idiophone), much used in Moorish music, Roma music, Spanish music and Latin American music. ... Whatd I Say is a popular two-part recording that was released in 1959 by R&B/soul singer-songwriter Ray Charles. ... A pair of congas The conga is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum of African origin, probably derived from the Congolese Makuta drums. ... Maracas are simple percussion instruments (idiophones), usually played in pairs, consisting of a dried gourd shell (cuia - kOO-ya) filled with seeds or dried beans. ... Country music, once known as Country and Western music, is a popular musical form developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. ... Look up cover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004). ... Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was a jazz musician during the latter half of the 20th century. ... Sketches of Spain was a 1960 album by Miles Davis, pairing him again with arranger and composer Gil Evans. ... Charles Edward Anderson Chuck Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and song writer. ... Louie Louie is an American rock n roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955. ... This article is about the rock band. ... Sympathy for the Devil is a song by The Rolling Stones. ... Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil. ... Latin music has long influenced American popular music, jazz, rhythm and blues,rock and even country music. ...

References

• Mr. Jelly Roll: The fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" by Alan Lomax. Jelly Roll's autobiography, largely drawn from Jelly Roll Morton the Complete Library of Congress Recording.