Track Listing

1. El rincon caliente
2. Para bailar el montuno
3. Deuda
4. El roloj de Pastora
5. Me bote de guano
6. Mi Corazon no tiene quien lo llore
7. Tengo que olvidarte
8. Canta montero
9. Chicarronero
10. No vuelvo a Monon/Las tres Marias/Apurrunenme mujeres Medley
11. Dombe Dombe

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13001 in Music
• Released on: 2005-01-04
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Cuban trumpeter Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabel was among the first musicians recruited by British producer Nick Gold for the now legendary sessions at Havana's Egrem Studio that yielded the multi-platinum Buena Vista Social Club album and Wim Wenders' groundbreaking concert documentary. But the veteran player already had enjoyed a rich musical history, having performed for more than 40 years in some of the most celebrated Cuban nightclub orchestras. With this lively set of '40s-era conjunto classics, he pays tribute to pioneering Cuban composer-bandleader Arsenio Rodriguez, whose trumpet arrangements inspired Mirabel as a boy.

Amazon.com
For his first solo album, 71-year-old trumpeter Mirabal has created a tribute to the seminal bandleader Arsenio Rodriguez. The latter was a tres-wielding maverick who reveled in Cuba's African heritage and gave new opportunities to the piano and brass. With three trumpeters on board, it is not surprising that the tracks often explode into blaring, festive, sloppy--precise fanfares, but Papi Oviedo on tres and pianist Roberto Fonseca more than hold their own. The singers also get a workout, notably on Me Bote De Guano, with its humming opening chorus and robust tenor lead vocal. The late Rubén González, who was Rodriguez's original keyboard man, is heard on Dombe Dombe, a tune he suggested for the set list. The sessions were recorded in Havana at legendary Egrem Studios with a minimum of technical bells-and-whistles and if the sonic texture is somewhat rough and remote, it only adds to the studio-live atmosphere. --Christina Roden

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Customer Reviews

Summer in your living room
Great cd, love the latin jazz / salsa from the Buena Vista Social Club !

¡Perfeccion musical!
Esta grabacion de "El Guajiro" Mirabal es maravillosa. Los arreglos y la interpretacion de los musicos y sus cantantes es de primer orden. La calidad del sonido es asombrosa, especialmente en el sonido de los vientos y del cuero de las tumbadoras; un deleite para los oidos amantes de la buena musica. ¡BRAVO!!

The wait was worth it...
It is about time that "Guajiro" Mirabal's music got its own stage. He has been a mainstay of the Cuban music scene for a long long time. His trumpet is clearly heard ln collaborations with many of the other mainstays of that wonderful music, but this is his first "solo" cd. Do not worry, the selections still include the talents of many of the same voices and sounds I have learned to love from their music. I sincerely hope this is not the only cd we get from Mirabal. His music is too good and too memorable. I could ask, "why did we have to wait so long?" But I would rather just crank up the speakers and say, "the wait was worth it..."