Grammy-nominated drummer, composer, bandleader, and educator Bobby Sanabria joins Art Farm at Serenbe Music Council chair Gary Cassis for a deep dive into one of America's most vibrant musical traditions: the intersection of Afro-Cuban music, mambo, and jazz.

Bobby traces mambo's roots back to the Bantu Congolese people of Cuba and the true father of the mambo, Arsenio Rodríguez, then follows the music's evolution through Antonio Arcaño, Pérez Prado, and the Machito Afro-Cubans, whose fusion of jazz arranging with pure Afro-Cuban rhythm helped inspire Dizzy Gillespie's own collaborations with conga legend Chano Pozo. Along the way, Bobby breaks down the clave — the five-beat rhythmic key that drives salsa, Latin jazz, and, as he explains, so much of the American musical ethos most people don't realize traces back to Africa.

The conver ...