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Live at the Casa de la Trova

Live at the Casa de la Trova Country & Folk

Live at the Casa de la Trova

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Maybe it is helpful to know that a certain Mr Keith Richards also owns a copy of this CD ... MADURO (Rigoberto Hechevarría-Ferrer): his face is known to the many patrons of the Casa de la Trova in Santiago de Cuba, where Maduro and his quinteto played almost every day from 1972 to 1991. They surely remember the old man: his sly smile, his straw hat, his left-handed guitar playing, maybe they remember his old fashioned valve-amplifier. But mostly they remember his music! By the time he was fifteen, Maduro had already played with all the big names of his music guild: with the great Miguel Matamoros; with Sindo Garay (1867-1968), the father of Trova music, with whom he played for twenty years; with Ñico Saquito; with the Hierrezuelo brothers Lorenzo y Reinaldo (Los Compadres); and with Pancho Cobas, who plays with Vieja Trova Santiaguera to this day. Maduro s musical roots are deep in the eastern Cuban Son and Trova music traditions. But his style is unmistakably his own, marked by a free rhythmic feeling and by the use of complicated, impressionistic chords, punctuated by disharmonious notes. Like all great improvisational players, his music always brings something original to tradition. In these ways, Maduro s music has become a lasting influence on Santiago s younger generation of musicians. Despite his local success, Maduro s fame never extended outside of the province of Oriente, where he was born and died. He always followed a different drummer: unlike other top musicians, he never wanted to go to Havana, let alone to the US. He never cut an album, nor let his compositions be recorded. Unconcerned with money or a luxurious lifestyle, he was most likely to be found touring the villages of eastern Cuba accompanied by bands he had thrown together in Santiago.
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Release Date:
2008-01-11
Publication Date:
2008-01-11
Publisher:
Oriente (Fenn Music)
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