Roque Baños

Latin soundtrack is a film/television scoring tradition in which the musical language is shaped by Latin American and Iberian (especially Spanish) idioms. It commonly blends symphonic or chamber scoring techniques with regionally identifiable rhythms, instruments, and song forms (e.g., bolero, son, tango, cumbia, salsa), while still functioning as narrative underscore. Depending on the project, it can range from lush, romantic orchestral writing and guitar-led intimacy to rhythm-forward cues that foreground percussion and dance grooves, often alternating between underscore and source music (music heard “in the scene”).

Jazz is an improvisation-centered music tradition that emerged from African American communities in the early 20th century. It blends blues feeling, ragtime syncopation, European harmonic practice, and brass band instrumentation into a flexible, conversational art. Defining features include swing rhythm (a triplet-based pulse), call-and-response phrasing, blue notes, and extended harmonies built on 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths. Jazz is as much a way of making music—spontaneous interaction, variation, and personal sound—as it is a set of forms and tunes. Across its history, jazz has continually hybridized, from New Orleans ensembles and big-band swing to bebop, cool and hard bop, modal and free jazz, fusion, and contemporary cross-genre experiments. Its influence permeates global popular and art music.