SquareTrade © AP6.0You are acquiring an ORIGINAL & AUTHENTIC 1959 letter from the great Cuban Composer and Director GILBERTO VALDEZ in NEW YORK written to the great Cuban MASTER GONZALO ROIG in La Habana, Cuba just after the Communist takeover. UNSEEN CUBAN MUSIC HISTORICAL LETTER between two great Cuban masters of music..... In 1952, flutist Gilberto Valdés' orchestra became the first North American charanga whose home base was the Bronx's Tropicana club. Others that followed were Orchestra Nuevo Ritmo, Charlie Palmieri's La Duboney, Johnny Pacheco, Lou Pérez, Mongo Santamaría, Ray Barretto, Chihuahua Martínez's Orquesta Metropolitana, Rolando Lozano's Orquesta Antillana, Charanga 76, Típica Novel, Típica Ideal and Orquesta Broadway. Since the 1970's, charangas have amalgamated into their sound influences from other popular forms of music, including rock and roll, jazz, R&B and various developments that had been taking place simultaneously in Cuban charanga. Some of these variations were Aragon's "Ritmo Chaonda", the songo rhythm which came from combining the son with rhythms whose roots were in Congo (Son + Congo = Songo) made particularly famous by the group Ritmo Oriental, and the re-instating of brass instruments by Cuban groups like Los Van Van and U.S. groups like Eddie Palmieri's La Perfecta, Típica Novel, and Orquesta Broadway. Currently, some of the most popular U.S. charangas are Orquesta Broadway, Típica Novel, José Fajardo, Charanga América, Bongo Logic, Charanga Allstars, Charansón and Pasión....GILBERTO VALDES Compositor y director nacido en Jovellanos el 21 de Mayo del 1905 y murio en Nueva York en el 1971. Fue discipulo de Pedro Sanjuan. Radicado en La Habana desde muy joven, fue introductor de las musicas de origen Africano en el genero sinfonico...En el 1937 presento una serie de conciertos con musica suya basada en elementos afrocubanos, con RITA MONTANER como interprete vocal, en el Anfiteatro Municipal Habanero. Fur director musical del ballet Afronorteamericano de KATERINA DUNHAM...En Cuba estuvo al frente de diversas orquestas. Entre sus principales obras figuran RUMBA ABIERTA, EVOCACION NEGRA, LIKO-TA-IRUBE, BARO, SANGRE AFRICANA, DANZA DE LOS BRACEROS, EL BOTELLERO (pregon), YO VENGO DE JOVELLANOS, TAMBO, BEMBE,y la cancion de cuna OGGERE. Incorporo a su musica instrumentos de percusion de origen congo, yoruba y arara. Images copied from eBay: 0e_1_1713_2.JPG, 31_1_1713_3.JPG

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