Afro-Cuban culture, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Video
Filmed in 1975.
Ray Barretto with vocalists Humberto “Tito” Gómez and and Rubén Blades. Composition by Rubén Blades.
Posted to YouTube by Salserodel70.
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Lyrics:
Se escucha el sonar de tambores
Anuncian la misa pa’l que tenga fe
Y en medio de la noche oscura
Avanzan los fieles con rumbo al bemb
Se oye el repique’l tamb
Ecos de un viejo cantar
Olofi, Lofi y Vilat
En medio e’la oscuridad
Y sigue vibrando la noche
Al compas bolero del coquioyamba
Los negros se agarran las manos
Repitiendo a coro
El viejo cantar
Se oye el repique del oyamba
Van cantando los niches de madruga
Oye mi canto abacua
Ay, a prisa negro que la misa va a empezar
Oye mi canto abacua
Yo por eso le canto porque yo se que el santo me pue’ayudar
Oye mi canto abacua
Le pedimos la libertad
Oye mi canto abacua
Campanas, campanas, campanas llamando estan
Oye mi canto abacua
Abasi vigila en la oscuridad.
Coro 2
Abasi es tambores abacua
Cantando de madruga
Abasi es tambores abacua
Se escucha el misterioso cantar
Abasi es tambores abacua
Son los niches que te vienen a rezar
Abasi es tambores abacua
Mis tambores abacua
Abasi es tambores abacua
Abasi
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Abacua
Este es mi canto abacua
Coro 1
Oye mi canto abacua
Ay, tambores de madruga
Oye mi canto abacua
Ayofi venme a ayudar
Oye mi canto abacua
Oye mi canto abacua
Oye mi canto abacua
Great news!
You can now watch this video – and all Spanish language videos – with English subtitles. It’s free!
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– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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Afro-Cuban culture, Blog, Latin Jazz, Puerto Rico
Andy Gonzalez & Rumbajazz with Jerry Gonzalez, Pedrito Martinez, Perdomo, and Ivan Renta in Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Fest 2008.
One of the great musicians of his generation Jerry Gonzalez passed away in accident in Spain. More information coming as we get it.
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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Maria Hinojosa talks with Bobby Sanabria about “West Side Story Reimagined.”
This is our fourth article about this piece.
We did one before the premier.
One before the free streaming performance at Dizzy’s in New York City.
One before the release of the CD and the free outdoor show at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park.
Why so much attention?
Because it’s going to be one of the cultural forces of the year, if not the decade.
And remember, you heard about it on Jazz on the Tube first.
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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Blog, Cuba, Latin Jazz, Puerto Rico, Video
Salsa Meets Jazz at the Village Gate…
One of the great shining episodes of American music history came to an abrupt end in 1993 when the Village Gate could not maintain in the ferocious Manhattan real estate market (such is the fate of so many creative venues in NYC.) .
When exactly it started is hard to say, but in the early 60s “Symphony Sid” Torin and Jack Hooke teamed up with Art D’Lugoff’s The Village Gate for a series called “Monday Nights at the Gate” that presented straight Latin music performances.
Then in 1965 the Tico All Stars made the scene at the Gate producing one of the greatest Latin jam sessions every recorded – and the rest, as they say, is history. With this crew, how could it fail? Israel Cachao Lopez, Ray Barretto, Johnny Pacheco, Cándido Camero, Joe Cuba, Jose “Cheo” Feliciano, and the Palmieri brothers (Charlie and Eddie.)
Finding good info about this important but little documented series has been tricky.
Then in a recent conversation with Bobby Sanabria I discovered the marvelous web archive work of artist and photoprapher Francisco Molina Reyes II.
You want photos?
He’s got photos.
You want the history?
He’s got the history.
You want music?
He’s got MUSIC!
Enjoy!
What? You haven’t clicked yet?
How about these greats together live?
Eddie Palmieri, Monto Santamaria, Tito Puente, Mario Bauza, Paquito D’Rivera, Gracila, Ray Mantilla, Ray Barretto, James Moody, Roy Ayers, Bobby Sanabria, Hilton Ruiz, Daniel Ponce, Patato Valdes, Chico O’Farrill, Dave Valentin, Johnny Pacheo, and more.
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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Artist-Educators, Blog, Cuba, Jazz on the Tube Interview, Puerto Rico
Interview with Bobby Sanabria
Download the mp3 here
What do you get when you combine Broadway’s most complex score from one of America’s greatest and most jazz-friendly composers with some of New York’s finest musicians and most imaginative arrangers playing for one of the world’s hippest jazz orchestras?
“West Side Story Reimagined” by Bobby Sanabria’s Multiverse Big Band.
We’ve followed this project through its debut, its free live streaming from Jazz and Lincoln Center, and now – at long last – the recording is available to the public.
Among other things, it’s a master class in Latin rhythms.
Just get it.
I guarantee you’ll be playing it until the 0s and 1s wear out on the digital recording.
Early bird buyers can get a special deal direct from the label. If you need to know more, here are detailed notes on each composition and arrangement
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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Music credit: The Jazz on the Tube podcast theme song is “Mambo Inferno” performed by The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Bobby Sanabria from the CD ¡Que Viva Harlem!
Blog, Puerto Rico
Film: “From Mambo to Hip Hip”
The hidden contribution of Puerto Rican musicians to American popular culture
Post-Film Reception: Featuring music of Puerto Rico by DJ Manuel Blas
Saturday, August 4 at 2PM
Old Dutch Church
272 Wall Street
Kingston, NY
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Some details about this event
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
Fundraiser for Puerto Rico at the “Cathedral of Kingston”
Screening and post-film party: “From Mambo to Hip Hop”
August 4th, 2 PM in the Old Dutch Church, Kingston, NY
The story of communities coming together and creating beauty, connection, and healing against all odds…
The last nine months have been particularly traumatic for the Latino community in America.
First, the essential abandonment of Puerto Rico by the U.S. government after the twin catastrophes of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Second, the “legal” kidnapping of the children of migrants at the southern border, many of whose parents still don’t know their locations.
What makes such things possible in a democracy?
It’s an old fashioned word and it may not seem to apply to this case, but it does: “segregation.”
In this case it’s segregation of the mind: the dividing of Afro-Americans, Caucasians and Latinos into three separate branches of humanity, each dished out unconsciously prescribed – and limited – allocations of attention, respect, understanding and compassion by our institutions and major media.
This August 4th The Old Dutch Church in Kingston is hosting a fundraiser for Puerto Rico designed expressly to bring the entire Kingston and Hudson Valley community together under one roof in support of Puerto Rico…
Young and old…Spanish speaking and Anglo…Afro-American (which includes many Latinos) and Euro-Americans.
The place: One of great historical significance in Ulster County, the Hudson Valley, and the State of New York: The Old Dutch Church of Kingston.
The occasion: The screening of the documentary “From Mambo to Hip Hop”, a film that tells the story of the massive and mostly unheralded contribution of Puerto Ricans to American popular music.
Rock and rap are the two most popular forms of American music. Few realize they were preceded by the “mambo” culture of the late 40s and 50s and the “hip hop” culture of the late 70s and 80s respectively.
These cultural movements were born in New York City, largely in the Bronx, and the makers were young Afro-American and Latino youth living under what can fairly be called crushingly difficult circumstances.
Decades later, the art forms they helped invent resonate all over the world.
“From Mambo to Hip Hop” tells this story, with special emphasis on the contribution of the Puerto Rican community.
It’s the story of a communities coming together and creating beauty, connection, and healing against all odds…A story we especially need to hear right now.
We hope to bring some of this spirit to Kingston on August 4th with this event as well as practical aid to our brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico.
Ella Fitzgerald