{"id":3639509,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3639509/?format=json","airdate":"2026-04-08T15:17:27-07:00","show":66400,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66400/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Wild Jungle","track_id":null,"recording_id":"a574458a-ebb5-44f8-8f97-ae7735c560da","artist":"Machito & His Orchestra","artist_ids":["181dff63-57c4-4d02-9c15-5be40a75201a"],"album":"Kenya","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"2b5535ee-adbe-33a5-8986-74eace9dd169","labels":["Roulette Jazz"],"label_ids":["13d2d5b1-b0e9-4aa5-9856-8aa33fd86f54"],"release_date":"1958-01-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Machito was born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo in about 1908. Growing up in Cuba, he studied music and performed professionally as a singer and percussionist before moving to New York City in 1937. There he formed his group the Afro-Cubans, with future brother-in-law Bauzá serving as musical director. They are credited with bringing together Afro-Cuban rhythms, improvisation, and big band jazz to form an influential legacy that includes Latin jazz, salsa music, and Afro-Cuban jazz, sometimes referred to as “Cubop.” According to Bauzá, the music was “like lemon meringue pie: jazz in the top and African-Cuban rhythms at the bottom.”","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}