Cubop is a 7-man orchestra who has developed his own style by uniting the salsa beater with melodious jazz and funk themes.

In '94, three Danish musicians went to Cuba to experience the roots of the salsa and get the rhythmic feeling completely under the skin. And they got it - including through instruction from the musicians from the Buena Vista Social Club, which became a world famous and rolled salsa wave across Europe and Denmark a few years later.

The trip to Cuba and the meeting with Cuban musicians became the starting point for the band Cubop, which has been moving in different directions for Cuban music and Latin jazz for more than 20 years. The name Cubop means Cuban Bebop and derived from the music style Dizzie Gillespie created in the 40's, mixing mixed African-American music with jazz and bebop.

Over the years, the band has developed Cubop from being a Power Cuban dance band with singers and choirs, to today mix salsa with jazz a...

Cubop is a 7-man orchestra who has developed his own style by uniting the salsa beater with melodious jazz and funk themes.

In '94, three Danish musicians went to Cuba to experience the roots of the salsa and get the rhythmic feeling completely under the skin. And they got it - including through instruction from the musicians from the Buena Vista Social Club, which became a world famous and rolled salsa wave across Europe and Denmark a few years later.

The trip to Cuba and the meeting with Cuban musicians became the starting point for the band Cubop, which has been moving in different directions for Cuban music and Latin jazz for more than 20 years. The name Cubop means Cuban Bebop and derived from the music style Dizzie Gillespie created in the 40's, mixing mixed African-American music with jazz and bebop.

Over the years, the band has developed Cubop from being a Power Cuban dance band with singers and choirs, to today mix salsa with jazz and funk in a purely instrumental band. A mix of tight groovy bass and piano figures with the freedom of jazz's legendary improvisations, and still with the salsa's dance performance.

Cubop plays music that appeals to both jazz lovers and people with salsa in the blood.

The orchestra often works with guest soloists and has in the last few years played with Al Agami, Frederik Lundin and Poul Halberg. During Winterjazz 2025, Cubop invited Alexander Kraglund as a guest and it is this constellation that you can experience in Emaljehaven this afternoon....

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