For Oggun.
Roman Diaz, Itótele; Pedrito Martinez, Iyá and singing; Rafael Monteagudo, Okónkolo.
Batá drums (from left: Okónkolo, Iyá, Itótele)
More treasures from the personal YouTube channel of Pedrito Martinez
– Ken McCarthy
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“The Power of the Drums” is a road movie documentary that visits five continents experiencing drumming traditions from around the world.
The makers are Jean Dumas, French singer-songwriter Bernard Lavilliers and percusionist Karl Perazzo who performs with Carlos Santana.
– Ken McCarthy
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Pedro Nolasco Jústiz Rodríguez, better known as Peruchín (January 31, 1913 – December 24, 1977)
We don’t seem to have any video of him so we’ll have to content ourselves with these three cuts.
Note: On “La Mulata Rumbera”: Con Pedro Peruchín Jústiz, Orlando Cachaito López, Guillermo Barreto, Gustavo Tamayo, Yeyito Iglesias, Tata Güines
Some of the pianist influenced by Peruchín include Charlie Palmieri, George Shearing, Eddie Palmieri, Papo Lucca, Chucho Valdés and Alfredo “Sabor” Linares. Famed pianist Bebo Valdés was his disciple.
He was the greatest pianist in Cuban music, and there were some very good pianists around in those days: Lilí Martínez, Jesús López, Lino Frías. But what Peruchín could do in one phrase was without equal. And what he did harmonically, rhythmically, was so modern. He was 30, 40 years ahead of his time. Every important Latin pianist I know … has copied or been influenced by him.
– Paquito Hechavarría, 1995
– Ken McCarthy
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Roberto Carlos Valdes
Cuban piano is combination of the precision of the classical keyboard with the precision of the tumbadora.
Eighty eight drums, ten fingers.
Roberto Carlos Valdes, grandson of Bebo Valdes.
– Ken McCarthy
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Black Orpheus, a film released in June of 1959, set the music world on fire.
You’ll see why in the first ten minutes.
From the Wall Street Journal Review by John Edward Hasse:
“The movie led to an international craze for bossa nova in the early to mid-1960s. The 1962 record ‘Jazz Samba’ by guitarist Charlie Byrd and saxophonist Stan Getz stayed on the charts for 70 weeks…Rarely has a movie done so much for a musical style.”
Here’s the English version – with the beautiful ending
– Ken McCarthy
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Guess what?
We can watch documentaries made in in other languages with English subtitles (or any other language.)
Amazingly, YouTube buries this capacity.
Here is how you access it:
1. Put your cursor on the screen of the video you are watching
2. Controls will appear on the bottom of the video screen
3. To the right you will see the “CC” button and the “Settings” button
4. First click on the CC button. The subtitles that the video was recorded in will show. You can turn them on and off by toggling this swtich
5. Next, to get subtitles in the language of your choice, click on the “Settings” button and you will see four choices. One of the choices is “Subtitles”.
6. Click on “Subtitles” and you will be able to pick the subtitle language you want.
– Ken McCarthy
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