LATIN MUSIC YOU'D SHARE

[Soandso]

José "Zé" Roberto Bertrami, pictured above, is best known as the founding keyboardist of the Brazilian band Azymuth (featured previously upthread).

 

[Snarfie]

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José "Zé" Roberto Bertrami, pictured above, is best known as the founding keyboardist of the Brazilian band Azymuth (featured previously upthread).

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Yes Azymuth played Dear Limmertz
a lot back in the days

Enclosed an enhanced picture.

 

[Soandso]

Mario Antonio Rivera de los Santos Manzanillo (1939-2007) was a multi-instrumentalist born in the Dominican Republic who moved to N.Y. City in 1961 nicknamed El Comandante ("commander"). He remarked (quote): "I spend all my free time… refining my chops … I play 24 instruments … music demands…dedication…." He recorded FRANK'S TUNE in 1993 accompanied by George Coleman, Hilton Ruiz, Ed Cherry, Walter Booker, Ignacio Berroa, Ray Diaz, Daniel Gullermo and José Alexis Diaz.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

Another listen to Caro Luna’s recent release, which is gorgeous.

 

[Soandso]

Here's a song titled PARA EL COMANDANTE which pays tribute to "El Comandante" Mario Rivera featured yesterday in upthread post #223. A U.S.A. English translation of that nickname would be more akin to calling him "The Boss" with respectful familiarity than a dictionary translation of the commander.

 

[Soandso]

Alejandro and Estevan recorded as Los Hermanos Gutiérrez the flowing song HOY COMO AYER.

 

[Soandso]

Paul Desmond (1924-1977; pictured above) started playing violin, then clarinet and became a "cool" jazz interpretive saxophonist. He recorded BOSSA ANTIGUA in 1964 with James "Jim" Stanley Hall (1930-2013; pictured below) who started playing guitar at 10 years of age and professionally while still a teenager, bassist Eugene Wright, and drummer Connie Kay.

 

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[Soandso]

Pablo Gil (born 1965; pictured above) was born in Venezuela who plays reed instruments and the flute recorded PERULÁNDO in 2001 with the Peruvian percussionist Antonio "Tony" Succar (born 1986) pictured below at the 2019 Latin Grammy Awards.

 

[Soandso]

Raymond "Ray" Mantilla (1934-2020; pictured above) was one of the most recorded percussionist who described his music as "Latin jazz with authentic Latino rhythms." He recorded CAMINO AL CIELO in 1999 with Bobby Watson (saxophone), Ronnie Mathews (piano), Jack Walrath (trumpet), Curtis Lundy (bass) and Victor Lewis (drums).

 

[Soandso]

Néstor Torres was born in 1957, started playing flute in Puerto Rico when 12 years old and 6 years later moved to the USA for some classical training. He has extensively recorded with well merited acclaim including a Latin Grammy award; for an introduction to his music here are the songs "CAFE CUBANO" and "SPANISH GREASE."

 

[Soandso]

 

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Paulo Russo (1950-2018) was Brazilian. His record album was released in 1997 and included the recommended song ESPANHA.

 

[Soandso]

Edmar Castañeda (b.1978, Colombia) when 7 years old met a Colombian folk musician who played the non-pedal diatronic "arpa llanera" (plains harp) which was an adaptation of the early 1600s Jesuit missionary introduced harp. By age 13 he was playing the "arpa llanera" although when moved to the U.S.A. at age 16 he played trumpet in a high school. When in 2005 he recorded the album "Cuarto De Colores" his reed player was Paquito D'Rivera whose opinion of the harpist was (quote) "…versatility and … enchanting charisma." Casteñeda adapted his bass note strings ("bordones") wrapping the wires with nylon for plucking out counterpoint with his right hand. He overcame (2019) some wrist bone breaks after a fall and continues to perform/record. A fine introduction to his music is the song SONRISAS from the above mentioned 2005 record.

 

[Soandso]

Benjamin Lapidus (b.1972) is an expert on the Cuban tres guitar whose sets of 3 double strings produce extra dimension to guitar musical notes. He founded in the USA the group Sonido Isleño in 1972 which released the song JETHRO in 1999.

 

[Soandso]

"Chico Mendoza", pictured above, was born in the U.S.A. named Ira Roberts, Jr. in 1939 and from age 8 played drums then by 12 years old learned how to play vibraphone, xylophone, marimba and piano. At 16 he joined a local New Jersey (U.S.A.) band called "The Cubaneers" quickly going on to form his own group "The Chico Mendoza Band" while still just 16 years old. Next he helped form the band Ocho in 1972 and in that year released a record album which included the excellent song UNDRESS MY MIND highlighted in the screen shot below.

 

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[Soandso]

Héctor René "Tito" Matos Otero (1968-2022) formed the band "Viento de Agua" which is Puerto Rican slang for wind conditions right before a storm in 1997 and in 2004 they released the song CUCÚ which is a word similar to "peekaboo."

 

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