JAZZCUBA VOL.2
Bebo & Cachao''''
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JAZZCUBA RUMOR presents the integral of Cuban Jazz. Since the mid 50's to late 80's, 20 disks, more than 300 recordings made first and then Panart Areito, the legendary studios of Centro Habana. A collection of the best musicians from Cuba. A recording effort that rescues old and forgotten songs never published before. The memory of a time as the French Verve or Blue Note American, every day sounds better.
Israel Lopez "Cachao"
(Havana, 1918 - Miami, 2008) Cuban musician and composer. Considered the creator of mambo, was one of the leading representatives of the fusion of Cuban popular music and jazz. After leaving Cuba in 1962 and continue his career in New York, Las Vegas and Miami, the actor Andy Garcia relaunched his career in late 1990 with the production of a documentary and recording a double album won a Grammy.
Passion family of music marked the life of Israel López was very young. At eight years old was already composing pieces of music in children's groups in which he played various instruments, but soon opted for the bass, due to the influence of his grandfather Aurelio López Cachao, which inherit his musical moniker, and his father. In those years concurrently studying classical music at the conservatory with works to interpret the musical accompaniment of silent films that were projected in theaters Cuban activity developed jointly with the child also Ignacio Villa, who years later became known with the nickname Bola de Nieve.
At thirteen he became a bassist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Havana, where he remained for two decades between 1930 and 1960, a period in which he played under the baton of guest conductors in the prestige of Herbert von Karajan and Igor Stravinsky . During that time, Cachao classical musical activity simultaneous with his true passion, Cuban popular music, performing in several orchestras in the night clubs of Havana. Between 1937 and 1949 was part of the band Arcaño y sus Maravillas. At that time, along with his brother Orestes, he composed hundreds of songs on the traditional bases of Cuban music, seeking new forms and styles. In
1937, the Lopez brothers composed Mambo, a piece that would name a new style of Cuban music. It was a much faster variation of the danzón, a type of Cuban music, elegant, unhurried style, inviting the slow dance. The proposed Cachao and his brother Orestes was not understood at first by the public, who saw no way to dance those rhythms so fast. Had to be Damaso Perez Prado, who popularized the genre in the late 1940's, when he slowed.
Creator and tireless seeker of new trends, Cachao continued in the 1950's with his musical activity, which led to the jazz and African rhythms. This Merger and evening sessions he did with Cuban musicians in a studio, where he made numerous recordings, appeared the famous "download"-style improvised jam sessions, in which the sounds merged Cuban black music.
Downloads and the mambo would be the main artistic legacy of Cachao, who would have a major influence on the emergence of salsa with the Cuban music that years later would lead the expansion of Latin music. The influence of Cuban musicians also came to the United States, a country that Cachao was after leaving Cuba in 1962, and after a short stay in Spain premises where he played in Madrid as the Riviera. The first U.S. leg of the musician took place in New York. At the legendary Palladium club played in orchestras figures of Latin bands of the moment as Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri and Tito Rodriguez. Cachao's style with his trusty bass, he opted for the Latin jazz at the expense of the burgeoning salsa, and its influence reached the black American jazz musicians, rhythm and blues, soul and funk.
In the 1970 Cachao moved to Las Vegas, where he continued playing in Latin bands, this time in the best hotels in the capital of the casinos. His addiction to gambling, which made him lose large amounts of money, and pressure from his wife, Ester Buenaventura López, led him to live in Miami, where in the 1980's his popularity dropped to such extremes that lived semi-retired professional music, surviving thanks to his performances in smaller clubs, weddings and other private parties. Cheerful personality, but without any desire for prominence (never credited with creating the mambo or downloads), Cachao always preferred playing in bands from other figures to be the headliner. In fact, between 1970 and 1990 only recorded three solo albums.
In 1993, while living completely away from show business, the Cuban-American actor Andy Garcia relaunched his career with a documentary on her life and her music: Cachao as his rhythm ... no two. The work picked up much of recordings organized by Andy Garcia himself, three years earlier, had Cachao in Miami with other Cuban musicians, the style of the discharge or jam sessions. Those recordings became a double work, Master Sessions, whose first volume won the Grammy in 1994. By then, the recovery of the total figure was Cachao and his collaboration with Gloria Estefan was instrumental in the success of the album Mi Tierra Cuban singer, which sold millions of copies worldwide.
The Latin music boom coincided with the revival of Cachao's career, which in the decades of 1990 and 2000 enjoyed international acclaim with tours and performances throughout the world and numerous awards. His music appeared on soundtracks for films, commercials and even a video game, and was heard in such prestigious stages as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, where Cachao appeared in 2006. Cuban musician alternated own recordings, including Cuba nice disc, produced by Andy Garcia in 2000, with collaborations with other artists like Bebo Valdés and Carlos Patato Valdes, part of the Bebo Valdes Trio whose album The Art of flavor won a Grammy in 2002. Cachao was another Grammy in 2004 for his work now yeah, again driven by Andy Garcia, and in 2007 helped drive 90 miles from Gloria Stefan, which would be his last recording.
On March 22, 2008, as a result of renal failure, died at a hospital in the town of Coral Gables, near Miami. He was eighty-nine years old. The singer Gloria Estefan and her husband, music producer Emilio Stefan, took charge of organizing his funeral in Miami, which became a tribute to the figure of Cachao, a musician who spent more than eighty years climbed on stage and lived the glory of popularity at the end of his career, as evidenced by a doctorate from the University of Berkeley (California) or the star which was granted on Walk of Fame in Hollywood. His death coincided with the appearance that same year, a new documentary about his life and work, entitled Cachao: one more, again produced by Andy Garcia. Cachao left Cuba
in 1962 and never returned to his country, so that his figure on the island never had the same recognition in the U.S. or Europe. The tradition of music continues to live in the figure of his nephew Cachaíto López, member of the Buena Vista Social Club, one of the main references of Cuban music in the last decade. Source
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