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Swing Con Son
''Swing con Son'' is a 1996 album by Venezuelan musician Alberto Naranjo. Track listing Alberto Naranjo & Latin Jazz Big Band personnel *Alberto Naranjo – leader, arrangements, drums, timbales *Alberto Lazo – acoustic piano *Jorge Del Pino – acoustic bass *Julio Flores – soprano and alto saxophones; flute *Evencio Villamizar – alto saxophone, flute *Hernando Bonilla – tenor saxophone, flute *Bautista Chacón – tenor saxophone, clarinet *Horacio Mogollón – baritone saxophone, clarinet *José Rodríguez, Agustin Valdés, Nelson Contreras, Figueredo Zerpa – trumpets, flugelhorns *Domingo Pagliuca, Alberto Benedetti – tenor trombones *Oscar Mendoza, Antonio Ponte – bass trombones *Vladimir Quintero – congas *Enrique Mata – bongos, Dominican tambora *José Hernández – maracas, güiro Lead vocals *Carlos Espósito (tracks 3, 5, 7, 10, 11) *Arturo Guaramato (tracks 6, 7, 11) *Juan José Capella (tracks 7, 12) Special guests * Billo's Happy Boys Orches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It has a territorial extension of , and its population was estimated at 29 million in 2022. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. The Venezuelan government maintains a claim against Guyana to Guayana Esequiba. Venezuela is a federal presidential republic consisting of 23 states, the Capital District and federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Naranjo
Alberto Naranjo ah-rahn'-ho(September 14, 1941 – January 27, 2020) was a Venezuelan musician. His mother, the singer Graciela Naranjo, was a radio, film and television pioneer in her homeland. Largely self-taught, Naranjo embarked on a similar musical course, becoming – like his mother – one of Venezuela's icons of contemporary popular music.''Enciclopedia de la Música en Venezuela'' / Directores José Peñín y Walter Guido, Tomo 1, pag. 706–710. Publisher: Caracas, Fundación Bigott, 1998. Career In his early years, Naranjo was influenced by diverse music genres such as jazz and classical, from Louis Armstrong to Duke Ellington and Oliver Nelson; from Bud Powell to Thad Jones and Mel Lewis; from Béla Bartók to Claude Debussy, and specially, the music created by Tito Puente, one of the greatest all-time Latin jazz leaders. Puente revolutionised the role of the drums in stage performance, when he moved the drum kit and timbales from the back to the front of stage, hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin American Music
The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking regions of the Americas south of the United States. Latin American music also incorporates African music from enslaved African people who were transported from West and Central Africa to the Americas by European settlers, as well as music from the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Due to its highly syncretic nature, Latin American music encompasses a wide variety of styles, including influential genres such as cumbia, bachata, bossa nova, merengue, rumba, salsa, samba, son, and tango. During the 20th century, many styles were influenced by the music of the United States giving rise to genres such as Latin pop, rock, jazz, hip hop, and reggaeton. Geographically, it usually refers to the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of Latin America, but sometimes includes Francophone countries and territories of the Caribbean and South America as well. It also encompasses Latin Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Jazz
Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms. The two main categories are Afro-Cuban jazz, rhythmically based on Cuban popular dance music, with a rhythm section employing ostinato patterns or a clave, and Afro-Brazilian jazz, which includes samba and bossa nova. Afro-Cuban jazz "Spanish tinge"—The Cuban influence in early jazz and proto-Latin jazz African American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban musical motifs in the 19th century, when the habanera (Cuban contradanza) gained international popularity. The habanera was the first written music to be rhythmically based on an African motif. The ''habanera rhythm'' (also known as ''congo'', ''tango-congo'', or ''tango'' ) can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat. Wynton Marsalis considers tresillo to be the New Orleans "clave," although technically, the pattern is only half a clave. "St. Louis Blues" (1914) by W. C. Handy has a habanera-tresillo bass line. Handy noted a reaction to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Of Venezuela
Several styles of the traditional music of Venezuela, such as salsa and merengue, are common to its Caribbean neighbors. Perhaps the most typical Venezuelan music is joropo, a rural form which originated in the llanos, or plains. Genres Joropo Joropo was developed by creative artists such as Juan Vicente Torrealba, Ignacio Figueredo, Augusto Bracca, Genaro Prieto, Eneas Perdomo and Angel Custodio Loyola, who helped to popularize the music throughout the country. Since then a slick, contemporary form of pop-llanera has developed which has earned the scorn of some purists who perceive it as stale and watered-down. Some singers, such as Adilia Castillo, Lorenzo Herrera, Simon Diaz, Mario Suarez, Edith Salcedo, Magdalena Sanchez, Rafael Montaño, Reyna Lucero, Cristina Maica, José Catire Carpio, Cristobal Jimenez, Juan de los Santos Contreras (El Carrao de Palmarito) and Reynaldo Armas have maintained a huge following over the years. In a similar vein, there is also neo-fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oblación
''Oblación'' is a 1994 album by Venezuelan musician Alberto Naranjo. Personnel * Alberto Naranjo – arrangements, direction, drums, percussion * Víctor Mestas – acoustic piano * Gustavo Carucí – electric bass * Julio Flores – soprano, alto and baritone saxophones * Rodolfo Reyes – alto and tenor saxophones, flute * Oscar Mendoza – trombone * Alexander Livinalli – percussion * Vladimir Quintero – percussion Special guests * Rafael Velásquez (trumpet on 4, 6, 8) * José Ortiz (piano on 6) * Huguette Contramaestre (lead vocalist on 6, 7, 12) * Fusión IV: Ilba Rojas, Adriana Portales, Kodiak Agüero and José Mena (vocal group on 12) Track listing *''All songs composed and arranged by Alberto Naranjo, except'': **Desesperanza, composed by María Luisa Escobar and arranged by Naranjo ** Mood Indigo, composed by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills and Barney Bigard andarranged by Naranjo; Johnny Hodges' original solo orchestrated by Naranjo ** Blues and the Abstract Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulce Y Picante
Dulce y Picante (Spanish for ''Sweet and Spicy'') is a 1998 album from Alberto Naranjo. Track listing Personnel *Alberto Naranjo - arranger, director, drums, timbales *Pablo Ortiz - piano *Jorge Del Pino - bass *Julio Flores, Jorge Rivera, Horacio Mogollón, Evencio Villamizar, Bautista Vivas Chacón - saxes *José Rodríguez, Agustín Valdés, Nelson Contreras, Figueredo Zerpa - trumpets *César Pérez, Gilberto Betancourt, Oscar Mendoza, Antonio Ponte - trombones *Gerardo Rosales - congas *Antonio Rondón - bongo and percussion Vocals *Juan José Capella (on 10.a, 12.a, 12.c) *Arturo Guaramato (on (3, 10.c, 12.f) *Carlos Espósito (on 6, 10.b, 12.d) *Carlos Daniel Palacios (on 2, 4, 12.b) *Javier Plaza (on 7, 12.e) Special guests * Graciela Naranjo (vocals on track 13) *Elisa Soteldo (vocals on track 13) Personnel on track 14 * Luis Alfonzo Larrain - band leader *Jesús Camacaro and/or Manuel Ramos, Efraín Leal, Luis Moros, César Viera, Rafael Albornoz, Enrique Palau, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billo Frómeta
Luis María Frómeta Pereyra most known as Billo Frómeta (15 November 1915, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – 5 May 1988, Caracas, Venezuela) was a Dominican orchestra conductor, arranger and composer Billo's compositions achieve international fame, and those dedicated to Caracas, where he married several times and raised a family, made him the most beloved of composers. He always included Dominican Merengue and mangulinas in his recordings. Billo Frómeta with his group, Billo’s Caracas Boys. He was a great entertainer for Dominican musicians who visited Caracas such as Johnny Ventura and Wilfrido Vargas. Besides the merengue, the joropo was his great passion. Likewise, he was considered the most animated interpreter of Colombian cumbia, for which he was honored. Early career Luis María Frómeta Pereira was born in Pimentel, Duarte Province, Dominican Republic, on November 15, 1915. He would move with his family to San Francisco de Macorís some years later. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruca Maniguá
"Bruca maniguá" is an afro-son composed by Arsenio Rodríguez in 1937. It was first recorded by Orquesta Casino de la Playa featuring Miguelito Valdés on vocals in June 1937. Ever since it has become a Cuban son standard, with famous versions by Abelardo Barroso, Sierra Maestra, Buena Vista Social Club and Ibrahim Ferrer. The song, which has been called "a landmark in the development of Cuban popular music" by Ned Sublette, was Arsenio Rodríguez's first hit and an example of his Afro-Cuban style of son within the afrocubanismo movement. History Both the lyrics and the music of the song were written in 1937 by Arsenio Rodríguez, who at the time was 25 years old and the ''de facto'' musical director of the Septeto Bellamar, which he had joined in 1934. The popularity of the group made him become acquainted with important musicians such as Antonio Arcaño and Miguelito Valdés. The latter was the singer of the famous big band Orquesta Casino de la Playa and in June 1937, Valdés ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsenio Rodríguez
Arsenio Rodríguez (born Ignacio Arsenio Travieso Scull; 31 August 1911 – 30 December 1970)Giro, Radamés 2007. ''Diccionario enciclopédico de la música en Cuba''. La Habana, v. 4 p. 45 et seq. was a Cuban musician, composer and bandleader. He played the tres, as well as the tumbadora, and he specialized in son, rumba and other Afro-Cuban music styles. In the 1940s and 1950s Rodríguez established the ''conjunto'' format and contributed to the development of the son montuno, the basic template of modern-day salsa. He claimed to be the true creator of the mambo and was an important as well as a prolific composer who wrote nearly two hundred songs. Despite being blind since the age of seven, Rodríguez quickly managed to become one of Cuba's foremost ''treseros''. Nonetheless, his first hit, "Bruca maniguá" by Orquesta Casino de la Playa, came as a songwriter in 1937. For the following two years, Rodríguez worked as composer and guest guitarist for the Casino de la Playa, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
