Cachao
"His name is Israel Lopez, but he is known as "Cachao." His real name is music though. Born into a family who were all bass crazy, at least thirty five members of the Cachao clan have played the double bass at one time or another, either with the Havana Filarmonica, or in popular combos. Some of them, like his older brother the late Orestes played with the Filarmonica under the baton of Eric Kleiber, formerly the conductor of the Berlin Opera Orchestra. Cachao was so young then that they had to build him a soapbox to reach his double bass. He is not only a bass virtuoso, but a composer, arranger and bandleader as well. He also plays the trumpet, the piano, the celesta and the bongos." (Figueroa, 1) But he is not your usual one-man band. His modesty precludes him to claim that he is actually a peer of Charlie Mingus. It is virtually impossible to catch Cachao-or to pin him down to a single instrument, though the double bass is his constant companion. (Someone) It was 1939 when Cachao and his brother created the first mambo which was called what else? "Mambo". "It derived from the most classical of Cuban rhythms, the danzon. Out of the danzon also the chachacha-and a little later another first by Cachao, the descarga,
For the next piece, yet another genre is introduced. Then the chorus joins in with Chocolate's trumpet and Almario's sax to culminate the yambu into a "rumba abierta"(full blown rumba) with all the trimmings and no holds barred. Nelson performs an impressive solo, where you can hear and discern every note. When he plays he looks like a bronco buster breaking in his bass every time he mounts. This first number, in my opinion, serves as an introduction to the magic the listener is about to hear. As tall as his fiddle, he looks smaller because of his gait and a body built by music. In this number the cajones, or the wooden boxes, and chorus give way to the drums, Jimmy Bosch's trombone, then to a duet with the flute. These pieces were put together and called Como su ritmo no hay dos (Cachao, Like His Rhythm There Is No Other). He is capable of telling Beethoven himself that he does not have an ear for Cuban music. And then they have Chocolate Armenteros on the trumpet, the voice of Daniel Palacio and a very important participation of Nelson Gonzalez and his tres (a Cuban invention, a modified guitar with three pairs of double metal strings). But beware, Cachao does not suffer the deaf gladly. One of the greatest achievements on this production is the novel sound from the combination of guitar, tenor sax, trumpet, trombone and clarinet.
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