Alan1984 wrote:Dear Johnny,
Thanks a lot, this already is very useful information for me to focus myself in the right direction! Its great that you are willing to share so much useful info through this forum.
It seems to me that while rhythmic styles in books are often posed as absolute truths, however especially in those older songs we often seem to hear a lot of creative combinations and different interpretations of these styles as well.
Best,
Alan
On El Dia De Mi Suerte they are playing a bomba, WAC style. Back in the day Willie Colon band used to play what they called "WAC Rhythms" which is a basically what JC talked about on his post. JC can check with Milton about the "WAC Rhythms". On the Richie Ray tune in some sections there I hear the conga playing an aguinaldo rhythm pattern, you hear the handbell play a pattern that is normally played with bomba, aguinaldo and other rhythms. Also you got to remember that around the time this Richie Ray recording came out (mid 70's), Richie and Bobby were gigging heavily in Puerto Rico as a matter of fact they lived in Puerto Rico for a period of time in the 70's. So it would not surprised me if "aguinaldo" had an influence on this song. Willie Colon and Richie Ray love to mix rhythms and like you pointed out in very creative combinations.