1.   The blind Cuban pianist Frank Emilio Flynn, whose long career connected many tributaries of Cuban jazz, died Thursday at his home in Havana.

2.   The music she plays today could be considered her impression of what Cuban jazz would have become without three decades of political strife.

3.   What also makes the work notable is the curious aspect of Cuban jazz having been largely frozen in time.

4.   The fourth disc covers Cuban jazz, the movement that has had an incomparable influence on jazz worldwide.