For example, the opening track, "What You Had When You Knew You Believed," can be lambasted for smushing together an Afro-Cuban pulse and piano montuno figure with a more Brazilian rhythm circa Return To Forever Light as A Feather on the verses. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2011)
Still, it was 69-year-old Valdés who displayed the most galvanizing virtuosity as he repeatedly unraveled prolix solos, marked by jolting harmonies and anchoring montuno patterns. ❋ John Murph (2010)
I love Mexican music, almost as I enjoy a montuno. ❋ Unknown (2009)
All of this -- I'm starting to become delirious -- could be enlivened by a song from Pablo Milanes with a montuno refrain in the warm voice of Albita Rodriguez. ❋ Unknown (2010)
De Marcos envisions a Cuba opened up to free enterprise, with a high tax burden and Scandinavian-style socialism, but where you can still get find a son montuno dance party in the street. ❋ Unknown (2009)
More of a collective than a band, they are made up of a revolving cast of virtuosos and dedicated to reproducing the blaring big-band sound of son montuno and guarija from 1950s, often considered the Golden Age of Cuban music, when listeners from Paris to Tokyo waited for the newest cuts out of Havana. ❋ Unknown (2009)
His songs drew their danceable rhythms from traditions within Colombia, including cumbia and porro, and from all around the Caribbean, with elements of Dominican merengue, Jamaican reggae, Martinican zouk, Trinidadian soca, Cuban son montuno and more. ❋ By JON PARELES (2011)
The band played mostly in a tense, collective murmur until the end, when the pianist Jami Calabuig worked Cuban montuno figures into the bolero "Dos Gardenias," and the whole balance shifted: rhythm spoke up, and the music briefly and definitively became non-Andalusian. ❋ By BEN RATLIFF (2011)
"Zawinul's Mambo" began in a terse, foraging mode; ventured into clattering, Cecil Taylor-esque atonality; interpolated a snatch of "Blue Rondo à la Turk"; swerved into a montuno; and ended in a butterfly flutter of tremolos. ❋ By NATE CHINEN (2012)
Their music is a mix of all the styles of Cuban music, including bolero, chachachá, salsa, son montuno, timba, guajira, danzón, rumba and abakua. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Well, there was a fast and slightly perfunctory jazz solo by the quartet's tenor saxophonist, Carlos Miyares Hernández, and a strong montuno vamp section: ❋ By BEN RATLIFF (2010)
Blending African-American R&B with mambo, cha-cha-cha, son montuno, and other Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Latin diaspora beats, boogaloo broke through, solidified by conga player Joe Cuba's 1966 million-seller, "Bang Bang." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Elaborately interlocking patterns on bass, acoustic guitar, tres, and hand percussion buoy the rich, passionate vocal melodies-sometimes composed, sometimes improvised-and the horn both complements the singers and steps out alone, juicing up the punchy, repetitive vamp of the obligatory montuno section with brash soloing. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In a performance last fall at the Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul, he devised a startlingly effective way to fuse Cuban son montuno, hip-hop, and jagged jazz improvisation, and though his latest album, Sentir (Ota), incorporates rhythms from all over South America, the connective tissue is primarily Moroccan Gnawa groove and hard-driving Cuban son. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Dakar's Orchestre N'Guewel offers "Mi Guajeo," and while the opening notes initially sound based on Senegalese musical scales and instrumentation, a deeper listen reveals that the chord progression is based on the classic Cuban son montuno. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Arsenio would adapt the traditional guaguancó to his son montuno, creating a new style of guaguancós, uniquely and characteristically his, that the dancers in the most humble quarters of La Habana soon made their own. ❋ Ibiza (2009)
