A lot of the Jam stuff has a minor feel to me. If diatonic you might try 3rd position or 4th. I would play chromatic. You can add some blue notes to this stuff it will sound cool if not over used. ---------- Emile "Diggs" D'Amico a Legend In His Own Mind How you doin'
I have played many many gigs of this type as a trombone player, so for what's it worth here are some ideas.
Keep it simple, rhythmic and melodic. Integrate everything you play with the percussion/rhythm section.
Playing behind a singer pretty much follows the same rules in any genre.
Pay particular attention to the call-and-response sections in the video above -- this would usually be a place for the "horn player" to play short fills in response to the repeated phrase ("coro") sung by the band. These are usually of symmetrical construction, example: 2 bars "coro", 2 bars horn solo.
Do you have time to do some listening/jamming with recordings ? Check out the youtube channel for "martincongahead" -- he's got a huge variety of older and contemporary latin music played by some of the best latin musicians anywhere. Google martincongahead and flute -- check out how the flute players integrate themselves into the emsemble.
Finally, I would be extremely remiss if I did not mention Damien Masterson's incredible CD "Cubacambio". A real masterpiece of fusion of traditional and newer Cuban music with diatonic and chromatic harmonica.
http://www.damienmasterson.com/albums/cubacambio
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