On 12/17/2014 03:08 PM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
I was deep into Bossa Bova through the relentless playing of Getz and
Gilberto by my martini sipping parents at night. I would like to get a
nylon string guitar someday and take on that style. It is in me somewhere.
Fabulous to be influenced by Tito Puente early. That would have helped
you feel the off beat. I wish I had gotten into Latin dance but my
parents only had ballroom available. At least I moved my feet a little
with a partner. That seems to be a huge difference in how my Latino
friends relate to music. They can't talk about it without moving.
It helps to have good looking South American chicks dancing on the
floor. You get a real sense for the rhythmic feel. :-D
As for the cowbell you do put a very slight swing to it. Latin is never
a straight mechanical rhythm.
Dancing is on my list of ways to cheat the creeping death!
---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
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, jr_esq@... <mailto:jr_esq@...>
[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]
<mailto:[email protected]>, <noozguru@...>
<mailto: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
