Bobby Carcassés

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Roberto Arturo "Bobby" Carcassés Cuza (born August 29, 1938 in Kingston (Jamaica) ) is a Cuban jazz musician ( vocals , trumpet , flugelhorn , bass , congas , drums ), songwriter and leader of the Afrojazz group .

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Carcassés, whose maternal grandfather was a diplomat in Jamaica at the time of his birth , moved with his family to Cuba at the age of four, where he grew up listening to the music of Beny Moré , Conjunto Casino and Roberto Faz. He began a career as an opera singer before switching to Cuban music and performing as a member of a vocal quartet in the Tropicana . There he also began to integrate scat and bebop influences into his singing. In 1958/59 he went on tour with Rumbo al Waldorf and performed in the USA as well as in Europe and the USSR. He spent most of the year 1959 in Paris, where he appeared with El Elefante Blanco , but also played with Bud Powell , Lou Bennett and Kenny Clarke . In 1960 he also became known as a dancer and as an athlete (in that year he became the Cuban high jump champion ). He also now emerged as an instrumentalist.

On his return to Cuba he founded his own jazz band; he also played in films and on television. In 1980 he organized the first Jazz Plaza Festival , to which he brought international guests such as Dizzy Gillespie , Charlie Haden and Airto Moreira . He also performed at this festival with his band over the next few years. He began touring Europe and the USA, performing with Tito Puente , Eddie Palmieri , Dave Valentin and other greats of Latin jazz, as well as McCoy Tyner and Vusi Khumalo .

His most famous compositions include "El amor llegará con el tiempo", "Como pompas de jabón", "Son de Cuba a Puerto Rico" and the "Blues Guanguancó". In 1997 he recorded the album Jazz Timbero with an all-star cast, which included musicians from the bands Irakere and Los Van Van as well as his son Roberto Carcassés . He can also be heard on albums by Emiliano Salvador , Enrique Jorrín , Mario Bauzá , Koch / Schütz / Studer (Fidel) , Chucho Valdés , Jane Bunnett (Cuban Odysey) and George Haslam (Cuban Meltdown) .

In 2012 he received the Cuban National Prize for Music.

As one of 121 elected members, he is a member of the National Council of the Cuban state association of artists and writers, UNEAC .

Discographic notes

  • Recordando a Benny Moré
  • La esquina del Afrojazz
  • Jazz Timbero
  • Bembedoble

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bobby Carcasses Wins Cuban Music Award
personal data
SURNAME Carcassés, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carcassés, Roberto; Carcassés Cuza, Roberto Arturo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston (Jamaica)