As is the case with Transcribe!, AmazingSlowdowner and Emulator X, if you showed Tutti's new music education software to a musician from the Dark Ages (2005 or earlier), he or she would pass out in disbelief. In the case of Tutti, you see a whole band playing together in little video squares on your screen. If you click on a musician, you now see four different camera angles of just that musician and there are many other bells and whistles, like slowing the tempo and viewing sheet music as it scrolls along under the video.

The best news is that Vasík Greif and Michael Caba - the Czech Republic geniuses who brought you the video for the books on Alain Pérez and Melón Lewis - have filmed Calixto Oviedo playing all four parts (each with four camera angles) for a variety of Cuban rhythms. This will be a Tutti product soon!

Vasík, Calixto and Marek Caba (Calixto cooked the pasta - a man of many talents)

Calixto will also be playing in New York on July 9 as part of the New Dimensions Jazz series with Calixto's Way, featuring Gustavo Ramírez (ex-NG), Armando Gola (ex-Manolín), Mauricio Herrera (ex-PFG) and Carlos Averhoff, Jr. (ex-Issac). What a band!

Meanwhile, Calixto's son, Yulién, has rejoined Charanga Habanera - at least for their upcoming tour, replacing the departing Randy Martínez - Aned and Lachy Fortuna have apparently also left the group.

Here's Yulién with fellow ex-Charanguero Tirso Duarte, the subject of the soon-to-be-released Beyond Salsa Piano Vol. 14, which, in addition to being packed with piano tumbaos that will leave you speechless, tells the great Charanga Breakup story in greater detail than ever before, with lots of juicy new details from the world's leading Charangalogist, Majela Serrano van der Heuson.

Havana d'Primera: Next tour stops are today in Folsom California, May 30, at the historic Los Globos club in LA, and the two nights at Yoshi's SF, next Friday & Sat. 5-31 and 6-1 and then in Santa Cruz at Kuumbwa on Tues. June 4. These last two will sell out soon. You can take your HdP ticket stub to Cócomo afterwards on Saturday to hear Mayimbe for $5 - and their set starts after midnight, so you can do it without missing a note. Sorry for being Bay Area-centric here, but seriously, Miami, you've got nothing to be centric about. Miami is absolutely the least supportive Cuban music city in the world. Hang your heads in shame - and your basketball team is also choking. Okay, enough cross-coastal trash talk for one post - but this ain't over! [Kevin Moore]

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Here's Tom's article (with video and photos) on hip-hop artist Danay Suárez and the Bay Area's DJ Leydis. They'll be performing on May 29 at The New Parish in Oakland.

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The album Musae by Roman Filiu won the Cubadisco 2013 award in the Jazz category.
You can read our review in English here. 

The album Yo by Roberto Fonseca won Cubadisco 2013 awards in the categories Fusion and Recording.  You can read our review in English here.

Also, we are including our review of one of the other nominees in the Jazz category, Magic Place, by Alfredo Chacón.  You can read our review in English here.

Congratulations to all!

La grabación Musae por Roman Filiu ganó el premio Cubadisco 2013 en la categoría Jazz.
Se puede leer nuestra reseña en español aquí.

La grabación Yo por Roberto Fonseca ganó el premio Cubadisco 2013 en las categorías Fusión y Grabación. Se puede leer nuestra reseña en español aquí.

Además, estamos incluyendo la reseña de uno de los otros nominados en la categoría de Jazz, Magic Place por Alfredo Chacón.  Se puede leer nuestra reseña en español aquí. 

¡Felicitaciones a todos!

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Today's Opinion by Yosvany Terry is the winner of the Cubadisco 2013 Award, Cuba's equivalent of the GRAMMY awards, in the category Jazz Cubano.  This is one of our own favorite Jazz releases from 2012.    You can read our review of the CD here.

Congratulations, Yosvany!  In the days to come, we will cover the rest of the Cubadisco 2013 winners and share some more CD reviews. 

Today's Opinion por Yosvany Terry  es ganador del premio Cubadisco 2013, equivalente cubano de los premios GRAMMY, en la categoría Jazz Cubano.  Este disco es una de nuestros favoritos del Jazz de 2012.  Se puede leer nuestra reseña del CD (en ingles) aquí

¡Felicitaciones a Yosvany Terry !  En el futuro cercano, vamos a cubrir el resto de los ganadores en Cubadisco 2013 y compartir también mas reseñas de CDs.

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