Jóvenes Clásicos del Son
| Jóvenes Clásicos del Son | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Cuba |
| Genre (s) | Son Cubano , Latin and African American style, traditional music |
| founding | 1994 |
| Founding members | |
| Ernesto Reyes Proenza "Palma" | |
| Pedro Lugo Martínez "El Nene" | |
| Raudel Marzal Torres | |
Guitar , vocals |
Sergio Lago Ortega |
Percussion |
Juan Manuel Hernández Jiménez "Lolo" |
| Andrés M. Gonzalo Gavilán "El Chino" | |
Tres guitar |
César Lozada Labrada |
Jóvenes Clásicos del Son (Spanish: Young Classics of Son ) is a Cuban septet founded in 1994 .
Act
The group combines traditional Son with influences from other Cuban and international musical styles, including soul , jazz , rap and funk . The founder and musical director of the band is the bassist Ernesto Reyes Proenza, who also bears the stage name “Palma” and who used to play in the band of Cándido Fabré .
From 1995 the Jóvenes Clásicos del Son undertook numerous international tours. They also shared the stage with great Cuban and international musicians, including Wynton Marsalis and Compay Segundo . Individual band members also worked with Vocal Sampling and Peter Gabriel . The most frequent concert location is the “Casa Balear” in Havana's Vedado district , where the band usually performs every second Sunday (as of 2014).
The band name is related to the fact that relatively young musicians dedicated themselves to the classical music style of Son when they were founded - in 2001 all band members were under 35 years old.
reception
Their album Tambor en el alma , which the Jóvenes Clásicos del Son recorded in 2001 with well-known guest musicians such as Chucho Valdés and Changuito , received an overall rating of four out of five stars from the reviewer of the Allmusic website .
Awards
- 1995: Best young band of the year by the Cuban state record label EGREM
- 1997: Best band of the year for the album No pueden parar
Discography
- 1996: No pueden parar
- 1999: Fruta bomba
- 2001: Tambor en el alma
- 2005: Menos jóvenes, más clásicos
- 2008: The best of Jóvenes Clásicos del Son
- 2011: Cantan en llano
- 2014: Pedacito de mi vida
literature
- Philip Sweeney: The Rough Guide to Cuban Music. Rough Guides, London 2001, pp. 311–313 (English)
Web links
- Jóvenes Clásicos del Son on the Suena Cubano website, accessed on March 23, 2015 (Spanish)
- Jorge Ignacio Pérez: Jóvenes Clásicos del Son: La mirada retro del sonero, in: La Jiribilla from August 2001, accessed on March 23, 2015 (Spanish)
- Adnaloy Hernández Rodríguez: Jóvenes Clásicos del Son: a lo cubano y sonero, on the Suena Cubano website of November 7, 2014, accessed on March 23, 2015 (Spanish)
- Jóvenes Clásicos del Son, on World Music Central , accessed March 23, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jóvenes Clásicos del Son, on World Music Central , accessed on March 23, 2015 (English)
- ↑ a b Jóvenes Clásicos del Son on the Suena Cubano website , accessed on March 23, 2015 (Spanish)
- ↑ Adnaloy Hernández Rodríguez: Jóvenes Clásicos del Son: a lo cubano y sonero, on the Suena Cubano website of November 7, 2014, accessed on March 23, 2015 (Spanish)
- ↑ Jorge Ignacio Pérez: Jóvenes Clásicos del Son: La mirada retro del sonero, in: La Jiribilla from August 2001, accessed on March 23, 2015 (Spanish)
- ↑ Chris Nickson: Jovenes Clasicos del Son: Tambor en el alma at allmusic.com, accessed on March 1, 2015 (English)