In culmination of graduate studies in Afro-Latin music, in 2009 I was awarded a Masters Of Music from California State University Los Angeles. Please download my thesis, an investigation of early Cuban son trumpet performance. The study distills the musicological components and development of the septeto period son trumpet style in a social-cultural perspective.

AFRO-CUBAN SON TRUMPET IN THE SEPTETO PERIOD: PERFORMANCE PRACTICES AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT