CongaTick wrote:Man, getting old sucks.
Man, getting old sucks.
jorge wrote:Mambochambo is a word, along with guarapachangueo and jiribilla, used for modern forms of rumba played in La Habana. Usually it is played on cajones and one or a few tumbadoras, with a lot more improvisation on the tumba part than traditional guaguanco. If the musicians have all mastered traditional guaguanco and columbia, it can sound really amazing, with the different tones adding another dimension to the traditional rhythm. If any of the drummers' timing is just a little bit off, or the musicians don't know each other well enough for each to predict what the others are going to play at any given second and avoid playing on top of each other, it can sound like complete chaos to someone who knows what rumba should sound like, and worse to uninitiated listeners.
JohnnyConga wrote:MamboChambo is probably a made up NY street term for a form of rumba there now....
here is a recording of the late great player Sabu Martinez from 1973..Sabu had a sometime nefarious reputation in NYCity back in the 50's, he was lefty and a strong player. He was Puerto Rican.As the 'inside' story goes he had to leave the states because of him stealing production money for the Palo recording and blowing it on drugs( I can't prove this but that has been the story in NY for a long time)...he moved to Europe never to return, and lived in Sweden.. there is also a site to him online just Google his name to learn more about Sabu Martinez...chek him out also with Arsenio Rodriguez on the CD Palo on blue note records hey for you youngbloods here...just to let you know it's ALL been done before..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4YZfqkht
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