MACHITO: Mambo à la Savoy

MACHITO
Embora não fosse propriamente músico (sacudia as maracas, cantava mal e, sem conhecer uma nota de música, regia - melhor dizendo - animava a orquestra), MACHITO é uma legenda no "latin-jazz", porque vislumbrou na fusão dos ritmos afro-cubanos com o bebop novos caminhos para a música. E como dispunha de uma excepcional orquestra, arranjada e dirigida pelo grande Mario Bauzá, colocou-a à disposição para que as primeiras experiências com Chano Pozzo e Gillespie foram feitas. Estabeleceu-se aí o modelo, logo adotado pelas orquestras da época. O resto da história a gente conhece.
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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 improvisation. 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.
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MINHA OPINIÃO - um grande álbum de Machito, com uma safra incrível de "cha-cha-chas" e mambos que, nos anos 50 e 60, animavam todas as festas. Na época também se podia ouvi-los no rádio (bons tempos...) A orquestra soa mais "jazzy" que nunca e é sempre bom ouvir de novo o delicioso e "sacana" SI, SI, NO, NO.
Mais um torpedo do grande "Macho".
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MACHITO: Mambo à la Savoy

TRACKS/FAIXAS
01. Carambola
02. Bongo Fiesta
03. Sambia
04. Zambia
05. Freezelandia
06. Mambo A La Savoy
07. El Jamaiquino
08. Sentimental Mambo
09. Noche De Farra
10. Consternacion
11. Que Bonito Es Puerto Rico
12. Si Si No No
13. Contigo En La Distancia
14. Donde Estabas Tu
15. Dragnet Mambo
16. Holiday Mambo
17. Te He Venido A Buscar
18. Cha Cha Charinete
19. Don't Tease Me
20. Christopher Columbus
21. Mamboscope
22. Relax And Mambo
23. Quimbombo