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Congratulations to the Winners of the Cubadisco 2012 Awards
Felicitaciones a los Ganadores de los Premios Cubadisco 2012
Para leer este artículo en español, haz click aquí
Cubadisco 2012 was officially dedicated to the guitar, but in some ways it was also the year of the retrospective. Many of this year's nominees were recordings that looked back on the careers of the musicians. It is also worth noting that based on the number of awards (14) that it was associated with, Colibri has emerged as a new powerhouse for Cuban recordings. Bis Music was associated with at least 9 awards, and EGREM was associated with at least 7. Several other labels were represented as well. We mention this because some people still mistakenly believe that the Cuban recording industry is a monolith. Here are some of the award results that will be of particular interest to Timba.com readers:
CUBADISCO 2012 GRAND PRIZE: Veinte Pianos, Música de Ernán López Nussa, various artists (Colibri). Ernán has sometimes been underappreciated througout his career but had a very good year this time with 4 awards. Veinte Pianos also won the awards for CD/DVD and Didactic Recording, and Ernán was recognized as Producer of the Year. He is one of Bill Tilford's favorite Cuban Jazz artists. This is also Ernán's second Grand Prize - the first was in 2002 for his recording From Havana To Rio.
SPECIAL GRAND PRIZE: Chucho's Steps, Chucho Valdés and the Afrocuban Messengers (Colibri). This is an excellent Jazz recording.
SPECIAL AWARD: Mis 22 Años, NG La Banda (EGREM), 30 Años de Son 14, Son 14 (EGREM),Sueños del pequeño Quin, Joaquín Betancourt (Colibri)
JAZZ: Travesia, Iván Melón Lewis Quintet (Casa Limón). (This actually won 2 awards. Timba.com's Kevin Moore has written a lot about Melón, who has also made major contributioins to the genre of Timba.
TESTIMONIAL and FOLKLORIC MUSIC : Las Estrellas del folclor, Los Hermanos Arango (Bis Music). Los Hermanos Arango made a great impression on listeners during their tour of the United States a few months ago.
TROVA FUSION: Pi 3.14, Buena Fe (EGREM). Buena Fe is a favorite of our own Timbera Mayor.
ARCHIVAL MUSIC: Origenes, Eduardo Ramos y Grupo Experimentación Sonora del ICAIC (Colibri)
LATIN MUSIC: Mala, Haila (Bis Music). Haila's solo project is a dance album that incorporates several different genres of popular music.
*****CURRENT POPULAR DANCE MUSIC***** Acabaito de nacer, David Calzado y su Charanga Habanera (EGREM). This recording does not break new ground musically, but it is a solid dance album, and one of the selections, the fusion number La Suerte, also had a very popular video. In the near future, we will review both this recording and the other nominees for this category in more detail.
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Pachito Alonso y sus Kini Kini
Celebrate 30th Anniversary Today!
Timba.com wants to congratulate Pachito Alonso y Sus Kini Kini on their 30th Anniversary, which they are celebrating tonight at La Tropical. The party should be starting right about...now! Invitados include Adalberto Álvarez, Revé, Bamboleo and Salsa Mayor, among many others.
Over the past 30 years Pachito Alonso y sus Kini Kini has been one of the great schools for young Cuban musicians. Here are a few name that should be familiar to you: Robertón and Lele, Tirso Duarte, Orlando & Lázaro Mengual, Lázaro Valdés, Vania Borges, Rigoberto López, Carlos Álvarez, Amaury Pérez and Cristobal Verdecía,j juts to name a few not to mention Pachito's sons Christian and Rey.
For those of us not able to attend the concert tonight, let me leave you with the title track to their last album, "Pasarela", from 2011.
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New Havana D' Primera Photo Gallery
Introducing Patrick Hickey Photohgraphy
Alexander abreu of Havana D' Primera - All photos courtesy of CultuCuba
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Patrick Hickey is a retired career technologist in the Silicon Valley, with a liberal arts background and a long-standing passion for photography. After over 30 years in high technology, he has taken a "time out" in order to enjoy life and not spend all day with Power Point presentations, budget wars and personnel tetras.
His introduction to shooting the Bay Area timba and performance dance scenes was a result of his daughter's casino performing group (Rueda con Ritmo), and the subsequent introduction to the various bands. He has very fond photographic memories of the late afternoon lighting at the famed Jelly's on the wharf in San Francisco, as the sun knifed through the windows and created an almost perfect place to enjoy timba.
Click here to read more about Patrick (bio and equipment list).
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Latin Grammy adds new Tropical Fusion Category
El Latin Grammy añade una nueva categoría bajo Fusión Tropical
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¡Atención Músicos! LARAS (La Academia Latina de la Grabación) añade la Categoria ”Mejor Album de Fusión Tropical”
En un comunicado de prensa 10 de Mayo 2012, LARAS anunció algunos cambios en las categorías de los premios Latin GRAMMY 2012. De interés especial para los músicos que tocan la música progresiva es las nueva categoría “Mejor Álbum de Fusión Tropical”. Veremos qué tipo de grupos y grabaciones serán reconocidas en esta nueva categoría, pero esto parece ser un cambio similar a lo que sugerimos en estas páginas en 2011 como una manera de ayudar a distinguir la formas más nuevas de la música en comparación de los estilos más antiguos la música tropical bailable.
Animamos a los músicos que tocan la Timba , funk cubana y otras formas experimental o " mixta" música tropical de aprender tanto como sea posible acerca de esta nueva categoría , ya que esto puede ser un lugar más apropiado para presentar su grabación que la categoría “Mejor Album Tropical Contemporáneo” .
Dos ejemplos recientes de fusion tropical - Palo! y Interactivo
Timba.com saluda a LARAS para la expandir las categorías y expresa la esperanza de que ayudaría a proporcionar una oportunidad de mayor reconocimiento a los grupos que tocan la Timba, Fusión, Funk cubana etc. en los Estados Unidos, Cuba y más allá.
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