CHANO POZO
Luciano "Chano" Pozo (January 7, 1915 - December 2, 1948) was a percussionist, nger, dancer and composer who played a major role in the founding of Latin jazz. Born in Havana, Chano struggled with poverty throughout his youth. The family lived for many years at El Africa solar, a former slave quarters, by all accounts a foul and dangerous place, where it was said even the police were afraid to venture. In this
environment criminal activities flourished, and Chano learned the ways of the street as means of survival. He dropped out of school after the third grade and earned a solid reputation as a rowdy tough guy, big for his age and exceptionally fit. He spent his days playing drums, fighting, drinking, and engaging in petty criminal activities, the latter of which would land him a sentence in a youth reformatory. At the age of 13, Chano was sent to the reformatory in Guanajay, where he learned to read and write, study auto body repair, and hone his already exceptional skill with a variety of drums. Upon his release from Guanajay, Chano returned to his father’s house in Havana. Chano spent his free time dancing, singing, fighting, chasing
women and playing his drums. He also began to compose music. Chano’s reputation grew among the people each year, not only because of his physical prowess as a dancer, drummer, and success with women, but for the compositions he wrote for carnival. In a few short years he was the most well-known and sought after rumbero in Cuba, with the most talented comparsas vying for his services, and was regularly winning top cash prizes for his compositions. Chano elevated the status and reputation of rumbero to near mythic proportions with his swaggering attitude as he led his comparsa through the streets, and he became a hero to Havana’s poor with each success. Cuba was by this time a popular tourist destination, with two of the biggest hotels, The Tropicana and El Presidente catering to rich American and Europeans, and Chano was determined to break the color barrier which forebade those of dark skin from employment. Although admired for his prodigious talent, dark skinned blacks were prohibited from working most venues outside of the slums, and Chano searched for opportunities. He would find that opportunity in the person of Armado Trinidad, owner of the radio station. Armado persuaded Chano to work for him, albeit only as the doorman for Azul, where his imposing size and reputation kept rowdy crowds in check. Once Pozo became famous he also became renowned by his
sense of fashion: his all-white top hat and tuxedo look predated that of Flavor Flav by at least 45 years. In 1947 Pozo moved to New York City where he met Dizzy Gillespie. They played bebop together in a big band, most notably songs like "Cubana Be", "Cubana Bop", "Tin Tin Deo", and "Manteca". Pozo co-wrote the latter two.Chano Pozo was killed in a fight in a Harlem, New York bar at the age of 33, allegedly in an argument over the quality or authenticity of a bag of marijuana he had bought from his eventual assassin. His grandson Joaquín Pozo, who lives in Cuba as of 2006, is also a famous conguero.
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ARSENIO RODRIGUEZ
Arsenio was born near Union de Reyes in the Province of Matanzas and was a great Cuban bandleader, who reached the height of his formidable powers during the late 1940s and 1950s. Blinded while a young boy by a kick in the face from a mule or
horse, Arsenio was known as "El Ciego Maravilloso," the Blind Marvel, the "marvelous blind guy," for the more literal among you). By reinventing the traditional Cuban son, Arsenio gave birth to a thoroughly rhythmic dance music, the precursor to salsa, which has since taken over the airwaves of much of the western hemisphere. Despite his artistic and commercial success during the '40s and '50s, Arsenio died in almost complete obscurity in Los Angeles in the early 1970s."
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MACHITO
Machito (February 16, 1912 – April 15, 1984), born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo in Havana, Cuba, was an influential Latin jazz musician. Machito played a huge role in the history of Latin jazz. His bands of the 1940s, especially the band named the Afro-Cubans, were among the first to fuse Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz mprovisation. Machito was the front man, singer, conductor, and maraca player of the Afro-Cubans and its successors. Machito's brother-in-law Mario Bauza, the musical director, influenced Machito to hire jazz-oriented arrangers. The son of a cigar manufacturer, Machito became a professional musician in Cuba in his teens before he emigrated to America in 1937 as a vocalist with La Estrella Habanera. He worked with several Latin
artists and orchestras in the late '30s, recording with the then-dominant Latin bandleader Xavier Cugat. After an earlier, aborted attempt to launch a band with Bauza, Machito founded the Afro-Cubans in 1940, taking on Bauza the following year as music director where he remained for 35 years. Machito's son Mario Grillo later took over the position. Machito died during a concert in London, England in 1984, suffering a fatal stroke while playing Ronnie Scott's club. A documentary film by Carlo Ortiz, Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy, was released.
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MINHA OPINIÃO - Neste album estão reunidos três "monstros sagrados" do Latin Jazz. Trata-se de uma relíquia, que todo aficcionado deve guardar com carinho.
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CHANO POZO, ARSENIO RODRIGUEZ & MACHITO ORCHESTRA: LEGENDARY SESSIONS
New York City, 1947. Havana, 1948. New York City, 1953
TRACKS/FAIXAS
1. Serende
2. Seven Seven
3. Rumba En Swing
4. Porque Tu Sufres
5. Cometelo To'
6. Pasó En Trampa
7. Tumba Palo Cucuyé
8. Apurrúñenme Mujeres
9. Tintorera
10. Yo No Engaño A Las Nenas
11. Tocoloró
12. Monte Adentro
13. Cumaye - Semilla De Caña - So Caballo
14. Los Guapos En Yatera - La Yuca de Catalina - El Reloj de Pastora
15. No Vuelvo A Morón - Las Tres Marias - Apurrúñenme Mujeres
16. Que Caña - Mi China Me Botó - Cangrejo Fue A Estudiar
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