REBECA MAULEÓN: DESCARGA EM CALIFORNIA

REBECA MAULEÓN
Lá no "Beco-das-Garrafas" éramos todos "porcos-chauvinistas", prá-lá-de-politicamente-incorretos.
Quando Rosinha de Valença e Tânia Maria derramaram seu talento e musicalidade no Beco, o elogio máximo que nos permitíamos fazer era mais ou menos assim: "TOCA COMO HOMEM!", frase com que eu, "dinossauro chauvinista" (rs), gentilmente agraciaria Rebeca Mauleón. Assisti a um concerto dela aqui em Miami, como integrante da banda do Pete Escovedo (tenho este álbum, que vou postar, brevemente) e fiquei estarrecido com o vigor, com o piano, realmente "másculo" que a bela Rebeca toca. Tenho um livro dela, "best-seller" da literatura sobre salsa e latin jazz, intitulado "The Salsa Guide Book", fundamental prá quem se interessa pela matéria. Possuo também um CD-Rom entitulado "The Latin Jazz Pianist", em que ela disseca todos os segredos dos "montunos" e demais ritmos e "grooves" latinos.
Coisa muito séria: PARECE COISA DE "MACHO" [:-)
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REBECA MAULEÓN
Rebeca Mauleón is an American pianist, composer, arranger and writer, specializing in
salsa and other Latin American and Afro-Caribbean music. Mauleón was born in Santa Monica, California in 1962. She began her professional career in her teen years as a performer and recording artist, and worked with many noted musicians in a variety of musical genres. She has written several texts and articles about the history of
Latin and Caribbean music, including the critically acclaimed Salsa Guidebook.
Since her early twenties, she has performed and recorded with celebrities in the Latin and jazz music scenes, including Tito Puente, Carlos Santana, Cachao, the celebrated conguero Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Armando Peraza, Giovanni Hidalgo, Joe Henderson, Sheila E, Steve Winwood and others, and has made a name for herself as one of very few female band-leaders in Afro-Caribbean jazz. As a producer, Mauleón has been involved in a wide array of music-related projects, from film and television documentaries to music software companies and instructional DVDs. Her solo recordings – Round Trip, Latin Fire and Descarga en California – have received international critical acclaim as well as top-ten status on leading Latin music industry
charts. She has appeared at numerous prominent national and international music festivals, including the Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Monterey Jazz and San Francisco Jazz Festivals, among others.
As musical director of Mickey Hart’s celebrated Planet Drum ensemble, Mauleón has performed throughout the U.S., appearing at Woodstock in 1999 as well as on the Conan O’Brien and Regis and Kathy Lee shows. In 2001 she was the recipient of the prestigious Meet the Composer New Residencies Award, one of the nation’s most coveted composition awards, and has also been a Sundance Composers fellow. She is a professor of Latin American, Caribbean and jazz music as well as composition, and has taught at several universities around the world. Also, she has served as a musicological consultant to National Geographic. Rebeca’s powerful style at the piano and her high-energy musical direction have been dubbed “visceral” (Billboard Magazine), “fiery” (Utne Reader), and critics have lauded her as “one of the hippest band-leaders in Latin music today”
(Source: All Music Guide).

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MINHA OPINIÃO - Meus caros amigos: se no "curriculum vitae" de um músico constar que ele participou dos grupos de TITO PUENTE, pode ter certeza de que ele joga no "latin-jazz-dream-team". Além disso, nada mais precisa ser dito. Rebeca Mauleón é pra ser vista e ouvida; dispensa adjetivos.
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REBECA MAULEÓN: DESCARGA EM CALIFORNIA

PERSONNEL:
Rebeca Mauleón: Piano, voces, dirección musical
Giovanni Hidalgo: Congas, bata, percusión
Orestes Vilató: Timbales, bongos, percusión
Armando Peraza: Bongos en "Cepeda Forever" y "Bongocero"
Jimmy Branly: Tambores
Luis Eric Rodriguez: Trompeta
Francisco Torres: Trombon
René Camacho: Bajo
Grecco Buratto: Guitarra
George L. Balmaseda Jr. "El Sonero": voz líder en "Cepeda Forever"
Humberto "Nengue" Hernandez: voz líder en "Wolenche"
Félix "Fito" Reinoso: Voces
Jesús Diaz: voces
Lia B Ad lib: voz en "Califas"

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
1. Manisero
2. Bongocero
3. Siboney
4. Suena Tu Timbal
5. Cepeda Forever
6. Wolenche
7. Serenata Rítmica
8. Califas
9. Songo-Changüí
10. Peruchineando

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