These days a wide number of trumpeters are approaching Latin music styles more and more. The suggestion I want to give is not to underestimate the task. Afro-Latin-American music is a very complex field, just as the American Jazz or European Classical music. There are so many geographic areas and currents (Antilles, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, etc..) each containing a huge tradition of rhythms and history often very diff...