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In memoriam - Manny Oquendo

Manny Oquendo
(José Manuel Oquendo)
01ENE1931 - 25MAR2009

always framed in the key, Manny Oquendo left us an important legacy in the implementation of the timpani and bongo. Their sound was influenced by drummers as Oreste Varona, Antolin Suarez Diaz and Ramon Castro Ulpiano, among others. Oquendo had sufficient merit to be in the place reserved only for adults. Pupi Campo, Tito Puente, Jose Curbelo, Tito Rodriguez, Eddie Palmieri, among others, could count on his knowledge of rhythms and Afro-Cuban musical tradition, adding flavor, rhythmic weight and strength. Founder and leader of groups such as Grupo Folklorico Experimental Nuevayorkino and the legendary Conjunto Libre, Manny Oquendo was a worshiper of the true sound of salsa, dense, uncompromising, full of flavor but with due reverence to the key and tradition . A large leaves, whose loss we regret those who bear the Afro-Caribbean citizens.

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Tepuy

tepuy

On a typically impressive sight, magical, full of unexpected landscapes which only takes place from the top of one of these majestic parts of the Guayana Shield. Such is the vision and scope that allows looking beyond the merely apparent, leaving room for the imagination to make contact with the talent and determination to achieve significant levels in any artistic way you choose, be music that always sense keeps us captive.

Tepuy is the name of the latest production of the Master Gerry Weil, fundamental and important character in the musical development of Venezuela, who shows us an important part of his work. Tepuy the best part of the broad vision that Weil has earned master for years in cultivating the art of making sounds, tracing a path where diverse musical influences have common ground in jazz, welcoming trends coming from multiple points globe.

From collective improvisation to the rhythms of Venezuelan things, from a Brazilian chorrinho up memories of his native Austria, the influences that Weil has received have been numerous, important all, which is reflected in 12 subjects with the expertise of one who makes music with the heart over reason . For this occasion Weil - from the acoustic piano - is accompanied by the Austrian violinist Rudi Berger and Venezuelans Pablo Gil on tenor sax, Carlos "Nene" Quintero on percussion, Robert Koch on bass, and Adolfo Herrera in Battery, who understand perfectly the language of master and bring a load of sensitivity, good taste and extraordinary performance, achieving dress each of the tracks with the right costume in style.

This is an album that expresses itself, showing the expertise of Gerry Weil against acoustic piano, vitality, creativity and lyricism of his compositions, his broad and specific musical language and how to make music that transcends time, imposing, like the vision that can be taken from the top of a tepuy.