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Folgendes, sehr empfehlenswertes Album habe ich mir zugelegt:
Auf dem Cover ist einer dieser typischen kubanischen Rentner
(Mario Bauzá) zu sehen, allerdings spielt er eine ganz andere Musik. Und das Album ist von 1992, also noch vor Buena Vista.
Bauzá ist der musikalische Direktor einer Big Band, die alle Spielarten von kubanischen Latin Jazz darbietet. Und der Sound dieser Band ist Heiss !!Auf der CD ist u.a. sein Hauptwerk, die Latin Jazz Suite “Tanga” enthalten. In diesem fünfteiligen Stück wird das Thema in den Stilarten Mambo/ Bolero/ Rumba variiert und meisterlich dargeboten.
Hier noch ein Auszug aus den Liner Notes, mit einigen interessanten (wahren?) Infos:
The creation of Latin jazz began on Sunday evening, May 28, 1943, while the Machito orchestra appeared at La Conga Club in midtown Manhattan. A tune had just ended and Mario Bauzá, the musical director, yelled out the number of a music chart he wanted next. While the sidemen searched for the chart, pianist Luis Varona had the next tune’s music ready. All of a sudden he began playing the piano vamp introduction to the tune „El Botellero” (the bottlemaker). Then, without warning. bassist Julio Andino began plucking his bass strings. Bauzá listened as he stared into space, and after a few more seconds began stomping his foot to kick off the next number.
The following evening, the band’s day off, the band reunited for its weekly rehearsal at 110th Street & 5th Avenue’s Park Palace Ballroom. Bauzá started the rehearsal by urging Varona to play the same „Botellero“ piano vamp. He then sang out what Andino should play along with the sounds he wanted from the reeds and brass sections. The broken scale sounds soon took form as a jazz melody. Bauzá. began blowing jazz riffs on top of the melody, then nodded to his alto saxist to ad lib.
At the end of two hours, Bauza successfully merged Cuban music with jazz and a new industry carne into being.Dizzy Gillespie, an onlooker behaved madly…he acted as though he couldn’t believe what he had just heard (He wanted to capture that sound and was given the chance four years later when he met Cuban drummer Chano Pozo). Gillespie excitedly asked Bauzá what he was going to title the song. Another onlooker remarked that the sound was exiting as „Tanga”
(the African word for Marijuana). The tune was thus called Tanga. Afro-Cuban jazz was copyrighted by Peer International and the new sound of Latinized jazz joined the family of Cuban rhythms.
There have been several versions of “Tanga”.
the most memorable one which featured tenor saxist Flip Phillips for Norman Grantz’s 1949 recording for the Verve LP „The Jazz Scene“. In 1989, Dr.Bauzá, commissioned Latin jazz’s most revered orchestrator, Arturo „Chico“ O’Farrill to expand “Tanqa” into four movements. Months later it was performed at a church in Harlem and the raucous
standing ovation determined that it had to be recorded. Messidor Musik made it possible for music aficionados the world over to enjoy “Tanga“, (considered the national anthem of Latin jazz), now in five movements.Das letzte Stück ist Chucho Valdes gewidmet. Hier spielt auch Paquito D’Rivera als Special Guest ein Solo.
das Album kenne ich erst zwei Wochen, ich würde es derzeit mit ****1/2 bewerten
Bei den ****1/2 bleibt es auch.
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