BASSIST, COMPOSER, ARRANGER
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Bassist, lecturer, composer,
arranger and author, Carlos D'l Puerto was born in Cuba in 1951. He comes from a
long line of outstanding bass players and after following an extensive classical
training at Havana's Amadeo Roldán Conservatory
Carlos D'l Puerto co-founded the legendary group Irakere along with pianist
Chucho Valdés, alto saxophonist Paquito d’Rivera, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and
singer Oscar Valdés. After 28 years with the Grammy award-winning Irakere, D'l
Puerto decided to put the technique of electric bass playing and Cuban music
into textbooks and conservatory courses.
At the beginning of the new millennium he found a new residence for himself in
the town of Turku, the former center and capital of Finland. From Turku, this
bass player has lecturered at the most prestigious music colleges,
conservatories, bass clinics and music festivals all over the world, as well as
focusing on the local and national institutions of musical learning, orchestras
and concert halls in Finland.
In the spring of 2005, after two-years of planning, Carlos D'l Puerto
accomplished his long time dream by bringing together his old playmates and
members of the new generation of Afro-Cuban musicians to form a new group around
him. The first performances of the Impacto Cubano Orchestra were realised in
Turku, and at the April Jazz Festivals in Espoo and in Tampere.
The line up of Impacto Cubano includes saxophone player & singer César Lopez who
has performed in Irakere and now leads his own band; Miguel Valdés, trumpet
player with Omara Portuondo, the famous Cuban female vocalist. The flute player
of the new group is Grethel D'l Puerto, daughter of Carlos D'l Puerto. The
singer - or sonero - of the octet is Joaquin Moré, tenor singer with the Cuban
Opera.
The music of Carlos D'l Puerto & Impacto Cubano will measure the breadth and
pulse of Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz, traditional son and modern Afro-rhythms.
Side by side with the compositions of D'l Puerto, César Lopez, and the amazing
pianist Alexis Bosch and the duelling percussions of Eliel Lazo and Amhed Ponce,
one can now find the hot sauce of rhythms of the Mexican cha-cha-cha of Alberto
Dominguez with the Puerto Rican mambo of Rafael Hernandez.
Hi Pietro, I was checking your
latest
Vinilemania
Jazz & Latin without frontiers
and I found a
great review
about my Impacto Cubano Cd. I wanna thank you and
Chip Boaz
for it., I do think is very good and beautiful. Also thank`s for including
me as the bass player of the
Band of the Week. You are doing a marvelous job with your web, and
we really need it. I big hug. Carlos
CARLOS
D'L PUERTO & IMPACTO CUBANO - IMPACTO CUBANO (2005)
Latin Jazz
Carlos D'l Puerto, bass
Cesar Lopez, alto sax & vocal
Alexis Bosch, piano & keyboard
Joaquin Moré, vocal
Grethel D'l Puerto, flute
Miguel Valdez, trumpet
Amhed Ponce, drums
Eliel Lazo, percussions & vocal
Intervista di
Gian Franco Grilli
review by Chip
Boaz
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