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Rappin’, Writin’, and Breakin’  

Juan Flores ▪ Fall 1987

Word has it that Machito, the father of Latin jazz who died in early 1984 at 75, was learning how to breakdance. The great Cuban bandleader, who since the 1940s had performed with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie …



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