February 01, 1991 (vol. 101, iss. 87) • Page Image 5
…ARTS *The Michigan Daily Friday, February 1, 1991 *El Conguero plays Page 5 h hot, by Peter Shapiro In the American jazz community, Latin jazz has never received more than a perfunctory ho-hum by critics and historians, who merely note that it exists as an obscure sub-genre. This disregard is due in large part to the canonization of jazz by critics who wish to keep jazz enshrined among an elite who "appreciate the harmonic sophistication" o...…