Afro-Cuban culture, Cuba, Video
Donde Va Jose
April 2021. Produced by Andro Mella for Jazz on the Tube.
Personnel:
Yordanka Alfonso de Leon, viola
Guillermo Barbaro Alfonso Novo, violin
Hector Cabrera Pino, violin
Pedro Cardenas Valdes, cello
Luis Cancino Morales, cajon
Lenier Licea Suarez, cajon
Lazaro Barbaro Licea Morales, chequere
Guillermo Barbaro Alfonso de Leon, cata
Jose Andro Mella Bosch, voz lider
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Afro-Cuban culture, Cuba, Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz, The Cuba-US connection, Video and audio
This is a program that student, colleague, and long time supporter Bobby Sanabria created as a tribute to his friend Cándido Camero (1921- 2020)
Originally broadcast on WBGO.org
Support info
Playlist
“Kenya (feat. Candido)”
Bobby Sanabria & Manhattan School Of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra
Kenya Revisited Live! (feat. Candido)
2009 Jazzheads
“Conga Jam”
Candido
Hands of Fire (Manos de Fuego): 60 Years of Cuban Music Exuberance
2010 Latin Jazz Records
“Different Bells”
Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor Trio with Candido
Prestige
“Cheek to Cheek”
Candido Camero
Candido
1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
“Perdido”
Candido Camero
Candido
1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
“Candido’s Camera”
Candido Camero
Candido
1956 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
“So Beats My Heart for You”
Tony Bennett
The Beat of My Heart
Originally Recorded 1957 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. Originally Released 1957 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. WARNING: All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.
“Wild Jungle (2000 Remastered Version)”
Machito
Kenya
2000 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
“Jungoso”
ARTIST:Sonny Rollins
ALBUM:What’s New?
LABEL:℗ 1962, All Rights Reserved by BMG Music
“Conga Soul”
ARTIST:Candido
ALBUM:Conga Soul
LABEL:Roulette
“Take More Candi”
Candido
Snowboy Presents: Afro Cuban Kaleidoscope
This Compilation ℗ 2008 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
“Pinebo (My Story)”
Ellen McIlwaine
Up from the Skies: The Polydor Years
This Compilation ℗ 1998 The Island Def Jam Music Group
“Jimmy Jean”
Ellen McIlwaine
Up from the Skies: The Polydor Years
This Compilation ℗ 1998 The Island Def Jam Music Group
“Busca El Alfiler”
Alfredo Valdes
Pionero Del Son
2007 Cobo Music Inc.
“Wild Jungle (feat. Candido)”
Bobby Sanabria & Manhattan School Of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra
Kenya Revisited Live! (feat. Candido)
2009 Jazzheads
“The Five Year Plan (feat. Kari-B3)”
Benjamin Lapidus
Ochosi Blues (feat. Kari-B3)
2014 Benjamin Lapidus
“Mayeya”
Candido
Hands of Fire (Manos de Fuego): 60 Years of Cuban Music Exuberance
2010 Latin Jazz Records
“Manteca”
Bobby Sanabria Big Band
Afro-Cuban Dream: Live & in Clave!
2006 Arabesque Recordings
“Que Viva Candido!”
Bobby Sanabria Big Band
Multiverse
2012 Jazzheads, Inc.
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Afro-Cuban culture, Cuba, Cuban Jazz, Video and audio
Candido was known for his peerless work as a bongosero and conguero.
He also played a mean bass and tres which he mastered as a kid growing up in Havana.
In 1984, Alfredo Valdes talked to/him into recording on the tres.
Disfruta los resultados
Credits:
Bass – Marino Solano
Bongos – Juan Méndez
Claves – Mario Muñoz “Papito”*
Congas – Alberto “Virgilio” Valdés
Design – Steve Quintana III*
Engineer – Jack Adelman
Guitar – Israel Berrios
Liner Notes – Sergio Bofill
Maracas – Caito
Tres – Candido
Trumpet – Alfredo “Chocolate” Armenteros
Vocals – Alfredo Valdes
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Ben Lapidus and Pablo Mendendez with special guests at the Havana Jazz Festival 2019.
Note: Ben’s new book “New York and the International Sound of Latin Music 1940-1990” is nothing short of SPECTACULAR. You can check it out here.
I can’t overstate how wonderful this book is. A full 360 degree view of one of the greatest music scenes that ever was: the musicians, the educators, the venues, even the instrument makers. Ben tells the WHOLE story. Beautiful.
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Afro-Cuban culture, Cuba, Latin Jazz, Video and audio
A tribute to the influential Latin bassist
Bassist Andy Gonzalez passed away on April 9, 2020 at the age of 69 from pneumonia and complications of diabetes.
Gonzalez was born January 1, 1951 in Manhattan, New York; his father Geraldo was a singer in salsa bands and his older brother Jerry Gonzalez (born 18 months before Andy) became a notable trumpeter and percussionist.
After a brief stint on violin in school, Andy Gonzalez switched permanently to bass, having early associations with the bands of Ray Barretto and Eddie Palmieri.
In 1974 he co-founded Conjunto Libre with the timbales player Manny Oquendo, mixing together salsa and jazz; he was the band’s musical director for 35 years, recording a dozen albums.
In the early 1980s, Andy and Jerry Gonzalez formed the Fort Apache Band, an influential and innovative group that invigorated Afro-Cuban jazz by infusing it with modern jazz and r&b, switching spontaneously between the idioms, all of it propelled by Andy’s bass.
A prolific and versatile musician, Gonzalez was on more than 700 sessions through the years including with Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente,
Hilton Ruiz, Houston Person, Machito, Steve Turre, Don Byron and both Chico and Arturo O’Farrill.
Health problems forced him out of action for a time in 2004 but he made a comeback and one of his last sessions was his long overdue recording debut as a leader in 2016 (Entre Colegas).
Here is Andy Gonzalez from the Entre Eolegas sessions, performing “Misty” with a group also including trumpeter Carlos Abadie, singer Manuel Alejandro Carro, guitarist Ben Lapidus, and a full percussion section.
-Scott Yanow
Afro-Cuban culture, Cuba, The Cuba-US connection
A lot of people talk about the connections between New Orleans and Cuba.
They are deep and real.
Havana actually ran New Orleans when the place was owned by the Spanish 1762 to 1803 and built big parts of the “French” Quarter.)
Anyway, the history is undeniable and so are the “look and feel” similarities of the two places (and they are even stronger in Santiago de Cuba on the islands eastern Haitian-facing side.)
But the devil is in the details.
What’s the modern MUSICAL link?
Jon Cleary shares a little known connection between Professor Longhair and Perez Prado.
“Fes” is Professor Longhair and Professor Longhair is one of a small handful of innovators who can be credited with laying down the roots of rock and roll and funk for that matter.
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Stan Getz