FEW PEOPLE KNOW those stories like [Marcos Gonz], 55, raised in the birthplace of rumba - the waterfront barrio of Pueblo Nuevo in the city of Artemisa, Havana Province. Cubop king Chano Pozo lived there; the late, great Israel "Cachao" López wrote a smoldering danzón in its honor. In Pueblo Nuevo, Marcos' puro "pure one," an affectionate Cubanismo for father - led a chapter of the secret men's society Abakua; its sacred Nigerian drums are rumba's heartbeat. "Right by my house was 'El Africa,' where I went to hear the great popular artists of Havana play rumbas" Marcos says. Where there's rumba there's always son, the Spanish-influenced Afro-Cuban music that's the sound of Buena Vista and the roots of modern salsa. And where there's son y rumba there'll be song and dance. Marcos' dad sa...
... with Arsenio Rodriguez ["the soul of son montuno"] and [piano god] Rubén González," Marcos says. ...
I came to Puerto Rico to see El Dia Nacional de la Salsa, a stadium concert extravaganza paying homage to the living gladiators of the genre. Pedro Arroyo, Z-93.'s program director, started the festival in 1984. "Salsa, at the beginning of the '80s, was passing through a very difficult moment," Arroyo told a Peruvian Web site. El Dia Nacional has helped promote salsa by watering the roots. Each year, Arroyo reunites historic groups and honors beloved performers of the music he calls "the people's big party. For a $13 ticket, I thronged with 40,000 other salsa fans to a '60s baseball arena in the sprawling commercial district of Hato Rey, wedged between a conservatory of classical music and Puerto Rico's biggest shopping mall. The Sunday afternoon concert emcee'd by Z-93 DJs featured fi...
...Papo Cocote and Montuno kicked it off, followed by vocalist Tito Nieves wi...
Luego de que el son montuno se convirtiera en salsa debido a la modernización sufrida en la Gran Manzana, el género adquirió diferentes modalidades, algunas de ellas extremadamente comerciales.
There's something to this conventional wisdom. Listening to the soft, erotic hits of salsa's post-disco algal bloom can feel like blackmail-as in, "I know what you did (in the '80s and '90s)." Even Fania's salsa disco fusion, a rarely raved about stepchild of the late '70s, seems quirky and energized compared to the synthethizers and smooth trombones that followed, patchwork productions that meant nothing more than a paycheck to studio musicians who never met face to face. John Storm Roberts, in The Latin Tinge, describes the salsa movement that began in the '60s as a "tipico revival" of Cuban music, which went underground among Nuyorquinos when the United States lost access to Cuba after the revolution. Some of salsa's biggest commercial successes of the '70s are also agreed upon as so...
... fundamental piano structures of the son montuno. Santeria comes together with jazz, village rhythm...
Recién llegado de Africa y con una orquesta de 14 música, el cantante de salsa Oscar D'León se esmeró con el público latino, que bailó y cantó las canciones del popular artista venezolano. Acto seguido se dio lugar al esperado Oscar D'Leon, un hombre entregado a su público, quien con su música de alta estirpe mostró una vez más el sello que los caracteriza, enriquecido por matices e influencias de los grandes soneros cubanos. No dejó afuera a ninguno de los hispanos que estuvieron presentes. Para Panamá, La Murga; a México, Si nos dejan; a República Dominica, Quisqueya querida; a Cuba, El son montuno; para Colombia, Cali pachanguero; para Puerto Rico, una mezcla de lo más representativo de la música de la Isla; y por supuesto Venezuela no podía faltar con un buen repertorio de canciones...
Ricardo Lemvo often sings about romance, and sometimes about the oppression suffered by a displaced people, but his music, a fusion of Congolese rhythms and Cuban son montuno, is unfailingly infectious. The heady mix generated by Lemvo's nine-piece band -- he sings in a celebratory stew of trumpets, trombone, piano, guitar, bass, drums and congas -- is rather well-described by the group's name, Makina Loca, which means "crazy machine" in Spanish and "dancing in trance" in Kikongo, one of several languages spoken in the leader's native Democratic Republic of the Congo.
OMARA PORTUONDO; "Gracias" (World Village/Montuno) **** For 60 years Cuban singer Omara Portuondo has brought joy to her audiences. "Gracias" is her way of saying, well, thank you.
The proud product of one of the island's great musical families, the classically trained Valdés has omnivorous tastes and a seemingly limitless supply of energy Much like his famous piano-playing father, Chucho, Chuchito Valdés is adept at blending various jazz styles with danzon, rumba, cha-cha-cha, son montuno and other popular Cuban dance forms. Bop genius Bud Powell (one of his father's favorites) is an obvious touchstone, but so are bold, muscular players like McCoy Tyner and block-chord-specialist Junior Mance.
HAVANA - Ibrahim Ferrer, a leading voice with the hugely popular Buena Vista Social Club of vintage Cuban performers, died Saturday, his representative in Cuba said. He was 78. The Montuno production company did not give a cause of death, but Mr. Ferrer's colleagues said he suffered from emphysema and was feeling ill earlier in the week.
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