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ISM March 2019
Europe – March 2019
Bamboleo de Lázaro Valdés is another of those exquisite Cuban products, as well as sweet rum and mild cigars
Like the sweet rum and mild cigars, bamboleo is another one of those exquisite Cuban products that, once tasted, can’t get enough.
The 14-member timba group is a fiery number, from its music and choreography to its well-dressed singers and musicians.
Lazaro Valdes leads the group, plays piano, arranges, composes and writes songs. Born in Havana, he studied at the Alejandro García Caturla Academy in the 1970s.
He created Bamboleo after spending time performing with artists such as Pachito Alonso, Bobby Carcasses and Héctor Téllez.
He selected the best musicians and incorporated into his new company many who had been trained at the Escuela Nacional de Arte de La Habana.
He added sparkle with vocalist Haila Mompie, who in turn recruited vocalist Vannia Borges. Another Havana native, Borges began studying music at the age of five, and first sang professionally with an all-female group known as D’capo in the early 1990s. Four years later, she became part of the band D’capo.
Four years later, she moved on to Pachito Alonso y su Kini Kini, which she left in 1997 to add her talents to Bamboleo.
Guantanamera Yordamis Megret joined the group in 1998, a year after Mompie’s departure. She began her musical training at the age of 10 and took up the guitar.
Like Borges, she is also a student at the Escuela Nacional de Arte. After graduating, she began singing professionally with Ricacha. Before joining
Bamboleo, Megret sang in José Luis Cortés’ salsa group PG. Bamboleo began touring outside Cuba in 1996, the same year the group debuted with Te Gusto o Te Caigo Bien.
The group has performed in major U.S. cities from Chicago to Miami, and from New York to Los Angeles. Following the release of Yo No Me Parezco A Nadie and Ya No Hace Falta, the group toured the world, with stops in Europe, the United States and Japan, as well as the Heineken 2000 World Music Festival in China.
Bamboleo also collaborated on the Temptations’ Grammy-winning album Ear-Resistable.
In addition, the group has appeared on MTV’s Road Rules and has worked with artists such as James Brown, Femi Kuti and George Benson.
Bamboleo, one of the best-known groups on the crest of the timba wave, a new style that blends salsa with funk and jazz elements and emanates from the streets of Cuba, remains at the forefront with 1999’s Ya No Hace Falta.
After leaping to international notoriety with 1997’s Yo No Me Parezco a Nadie, the pressure was on to deliver for his newfound fan base.
With smooth arrangements and a band with a tight drum kit, Bamboleo had no trouble making good on their reputation and, if anything, raised the bar for the entire genre.
Both the horn section and the vocalists have a cool, smooth approach that contrasts with the energetic sound of similar groups like Charanga Habanera or NG la Banda.
This smoky, jazzy sensibility juxtaposed with the sharp corners of the superfunky rhythm section makes for easy and enjoyable listening.
The group doesn’t lack for warmth, with salty montunos from pianist/arranger Lazaro Valdes and plenty of time changes from a percussion section as good as any operating today.
Sonically, the ears rejoice in listening to a timba album that lacks neither fidelity nor modern production sensibilities.
With its balanced overall sound, unique approach and expert musicianship, Bamboleo will set trends and erase boundaries for decades to come.
Evan C. Gutierrez
Bamboleo – Ya No Hace Falta (1999).
Musicians:
Lázaro M. Valdés Rodríguez (Director, piano, composer).
Abel Fernández Arana (Alto Saxophone)
Carlos Valdés Machado (Tenor saxophone)
Anselmo “Carmelo” Torres (trumpet)
Dunesky Barreto Pozo (Congas)
Alberto Para (Maracas)
Herlon Sarior (Timbales)
Jorge David Rodríguez (Voice)
Yordamis M. Mergret Planes (Vocals)
- Frank Cintra Cruz (Trumpet)
Alejandro Borrero Ramírez (Vocals)
Vannia Borges Hernández (Vocals)
José Antonio Pérez Fuentes (Violin)
Maylin de la Caridad González Aldama (Cello)
Ludwig Nunez Pastoriza (Drums)
Rafael P. Pacerio Monzón (Banjo)
Ulises Texidor Pascual (Bongos)
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Eva Cortés at present, her music reflects the influences received from her cultural miscegenation
Fragile voice, delicate and powerful at the same time, that moves with devotion and good work through the multiple paths of jazz.
Eva Cortés, born in Tegucigalpa (Honduras), 1972, is a Honduran jazz singer and composer.
More than a voice, she is our jazz star in the world.
She is part of the fusion movement, incorporating in her music the influences of traditional Latin American music (zamba, bolero), blues, traditional Andalusian music and jazz.
He sings with a Latin American Spanish cadence and Andalusian echoes and accent.
He grew up in Seville and currently resides between Madrid and New York.
He became known in 1980 after recording an album of children’s songs entitled Cosas de niños with singers such as Ana Belén, Víctor Manuel, Mocedades and Miguel Bosé.
Nowadays, his music reflects the influences received from his cultural miscegenation, as well as from the different musical genres developed throughout his career.
Growing up in a family of great musical tradition, she was exposed to Latin American music. Although we hear in her first compositions, at the age of 16, a strong influence of blues.
In January 2006 she flew to Santiago de Chile to record and co-produce Sola Contigo, her first solo album, which was later mixed and mastered in Paris.
In this work we can find South American rhythms fused with jazz and a soft touch coming from the south of Spain.
Eva feels honored to have had the collaboration of musicians with great international prestige: Jerry Gonzalez,
Antonio Serrano, Pepe Rivero and Nono Garcia among others.
In April 2008 Eva recorded her second album Como Agua entre los Dedos, which is an album of original songs composed mostly by Eva Cortés, although they also stand out in the two Spanish adaptations of two standards such as You don’t know what love is and La Vie en Rose.
They released their third album El Mar de Mi Vida on April 6, 2010. With his personal jazz fusion, he has managed to carve a niche for himself among the most interesting and promising proposals of the Spanish jazz scene. [El Mar de Mi Vida brings together 12 songs that are maximum exponents of cultural crossbreeding.
On this occasion, in addition, the flamenco great Miguel Poveda joins in the version of the song C’est si bon, Perico Sambeat, Lew Soloff (considered one of the most brilliant trumpet players of recent times and who has collaborated with Marianne Faithfull or Frank Sinatra, among others), Santiago Cañadada, Rémy Decormeille, Georvis Pico, the electric bassist of the moment Hadrien Feraud and the English drummer Mark Mondesir (both musicians of John McLaughlin).
Eva once again signs most of the tracks and shares authorship in a couple of songs with Brazilian guitarist Kiko Loureiro.
In addition, we find tracks such as Alfonsina y el Mar (Ariel Ramírez-Felix Luna), Une chanson Douce (Henrie Salvador- Maurice Pon), C’est si bon (André Hornez-Henri Betti) and Que reste-t-il de Nos Amours (Charles Trenet-Leo Chauliac).
Eva Cortes – The Sea Of My Life (2010)
Tracks:
- The Sea Of My Life
- Casi
- C’es Si Bon / What’s Better? (Feat. Miguel Poveda)
- Desterrado
- Valsa Da Menina
- Remembering Tomorrow
- Little Matter If Later
- Que Reste-T-Il De Nos Amours / I Wish You Love
- Woman
- Alfonsina And The Sea
- Da Igual
- Une Chanson Douce
Information realized (January 13, 2024)
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