[1]The Cuban Alternative Music Scene groups a diversity of musicians that since the late 1980s furthered the cosmopolitan character of Cuban music through constant fusion and experimentation with world sonorities. Some of them were song-writers, former members of  the “Novisima Trova” movement. Others received a high quality 15 year average training in classical music and art studies at the National System of Schools of Arts and Music in the Island. In general they are highly influenced by jazz music (ranging from traditional to more experimental and electronic jazz). They are also strongly informed by Brazilian harmonies and rhythms, Reggae, Argentinean and Anglo rock, funk and pop music. They have combined all these influences with the way of making songs and music from Cuban artistic movements like Feeling, La “Nueva and Novísima Trova” and previous Cuban jazz musicians like Emiliano Salvador, Bobby Carcassés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. In some cases they also incorporate rhythms and harmonies from genres like timba, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop and have made occasional contemporary versions of emblematic jazz standards and traditional Cuban songs and genres.