When I was a kid my uncle, who worked at a furniture/appliance store,
gave me some LP's he didn't want that came with their new RCA console.
One was Tito Puente and his band. I used to play along with it and the
lead trumpet on the album was Doc Severinsen way before his stint as
band leader for Johnny Carson. Nor did I know that Severinsen grew up in
a small town down the Columbia river from me.
So I played by feel all kinds of rhythms and wrote bossa novas in high
school (because they were popular at the time). I got the salsa gig as
a substitute but they liked my feel on latin rhythms so kept working
with them for a while. Unfortunately Seattle was more into samba bands
and we would have done well in San Francisco where salsa was a lot more
popular.
As you know the Bay Area has Pete Escovedo's band. But his daughter is
more well known as Sheila E. ;-)
On 12/17/2014 01:20 PM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Good for you, Bhairitu! Playing latin music is fairly complicated.
You have to get used to playing the clave beat in your head and then
play the tune as you go. American music does not have this feature at
all.
Believe it or not, Henry Mancini used some latin beats in his
orchestration many years ago.
---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
I used to play in a salsa band. The conga player was half Cuban. The
basic beat this guy starts out with is nothing different from a
standard mambo beat and he is adding some more drums. Mambos or
Montunas are basically what "salsa" is. And salsa bands are a lot of
fun to play in. I recently wrote a salsa piece as a title piece for
some software.
On 12/17/2014 12:22 PM, curtisdeltablues@...
<mailto:curtisdeltablues@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
I am crazy for this beat, we are on the same page!
I've been using some instructional materials to learn how these
beats relate to clave patterns from African and Afro Cuba. I
learned about this from this book and then Youtubed the hell of
it. What a great time to be alive for musical access isn't it?
What got you into this beat? Can you help me understand how
this is different from a salsa beat?
Awesome stuff.
---In [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>, <jr_esq@...>
<mailto:jr_esq@...> wrote :
Listen to this new beat called timba from Cuba. I been trying to
play this on my congas with some success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-dGeaLnLmg
---In [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>, <curtisdeltablues@...>
<mailto:curtisdeltablues@...> wrote :
I have followed this with great interest since I am reading a
wonderful book on Cuba's contribution to music:
Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
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I have been blown away by how much I DIDN'T know about how
influential their music culture was to modern music. The clave
were the hard wood spikes they put wooden boats together with in
the shipyards of Havana! I think you would dig this book, it is
an amazing historical look through the eyes of a musician. He
also wrote a cool book on New Orleans music history.
---In [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>, <noozguru@...>
<mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :
It's taken 50 years for the US to pull the friggn' thorn out of it's
side and renew diplomatic relations with Cuba. Of course all the
right
wing dummies will screed that the Obama administration is being
"commie"
for doing so.
http://news.yahoo.com/after-alan-gross-release--obama-seeks-to-resume-full-diplomatic-ties-with-cuba-152343480.html
