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Byline: Laura Morales
May 18--Instruments ready, the members of the Arts and Minds Jazz Combo gathered around their music teacher, Alfredo de la Rosa, who was playing the piano. "When I cue in the sax, you've got to remember your cut time," he said to Cristhian Mora, 15. De la Rosa sliced air with his finger to cue drummer Alex Castell, 15, into the piece. Physically, they were bunched in a little room in Coconut Grove, but in their minds they were On Green Dolphin Street. They were infusing Bronislau Kaper's mellow 1947 instrumental with a hot Afro-Cuban twist. The staff and students at the Academy of Arts and Minds, Miami-Dade County's first performing…