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Chano Pozo's Music

Gerardo Rosales - Afro Cuban Jazz Quintet

Label: Challenge Records
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917331622
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Catalog number: CR 73316
Releasedate: 03-06-11
With his concerts and recordings he has managed to spread and project the rhythms of Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Peru, Curacao, Surinam: Gerardo Rosales. He and his Afro Cuban Jazz Quintet conquer the world with this Challenge Records release! They play Chano Pozo’s music with a new sound and vision, 70 years after its creation.
  • The jazz’s history has changed since Chano Pozo, percussionist, joined his conga with Dizzy Gillespie, bebop maker, and together they changed the jazz concept
  • At that time Cubop or Afro Cuban jazz has originated: a mix, blending Cuban music and jazz, now called Latin jazz
  • Gerardo Rosales Afro Cuban Jazz Quintet plays Chano Pozo’s music with a new sound and vision, 70 years after its creation
  • Themes such as “Manteca”, “Tin Tin Deo”, “Blen Blen Blen”, “Cubana Be” and others, revived with a new sound and new concept
  • Afro-Cuban rhythm is the ‘protagonist’ in this project. Cajones, congas, bongo, drums, guaguancó rhythm blended with jazz swing are the basic elements for the sound of Cubop -Bebop a la Cubana - interpreted in a new way
With his concerts and recordings he has managed to spread and project the rhythms of Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Peru, Curacao, Surinam: Gerardo Rosales. He and his Afro Cuban Jazz Quintet conquer the world with this Challenge Records release! They play Chano Pozo’s music with a new sound and vision, 70 years after its creation.

Chano Pozo  is one of a handful of Cuban percussionists who came to the United States in the 1940s and 50s. Other notable congueros who came to the U.S. during that time include Mongo Santamaria, Armando Peraza, Francisco Aguabella, Julito Collazo, Carlos Vidal Bolado and Modesto Duran. Pozo moved to New York City in early 1947 with the encouragement of Miguelito Valdés, and participated in a recording session with Valdés, Arsenio Rodríguez, Carlos Vidal Bolado and José Mangual. In September 1947 he featured with Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band at Carnegie Hall and subsequently on a European tour. Their notable material includes "Cubana Be, Cubana Bop" (written by George Russell), and "Tin Tin Deo" and Manteca (song), both co-written by Pozo.