What is this beat called?

I'd like to know if there is a name for that spezific beat:
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thanks

I usually refer to it and have heard it refered to as a "blues rhumba". Rightly or wrongly I'm not sure.

Yep, it's a blues rhumba.

..........which probably means it's not a real rhumba at all.:lol:

Yep, the rhumba. Also known as a mambo, hence the lyric in the YT link :grin:

In my mind, it's a New Orleans groove, specifically a Professor Longhair thing. The drummer on post #1 ain't a N.O. drummer though.

Try this on for size, for a properly executed rhumba groove~
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