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Tata Güines - "El Grande De Los Cueros"

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Uploaded by on Dec 19, 2009

El Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos presenta... Tata Güines

Tata Güines - "El Fity"
(born Federico Aristides Soto y Alejoà June 30, 1930, died February 4, 2008) was a Cuban percussionist on the tumbadora, or conga drum, as well as a composer.
He was important in the first generation of Afro-Cuban jazz...
Tata was born in Güines, a poor town east of Havana in Matanzas province of Cuba.. He became famous for playing the conga, by the 1950s he was working with such top Cuban musician as Arsenio Rodriguez, Chano Pozo, Bebo Valdes and Israel Lopez....
In the late 1950s he formed a band with the pianist Frank Emilio Flynn, forming a new band, Quinteto Instrumental de Musica Moderna, later known as Los Amigos.

Güines moved to New York City in 1957, playing there with great jazz players such as Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, and Miles Davis at Birdland. As a percussionist, he performed with Josephine Baker and Frank Sinatra....

He had a musical career that lasted six decades that helped popularize Afro-Cuban rhythms.

Rest in Peace Maestro...

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  • El TATAAAAAAAA A comerrrrrrr

  • Pedro Soroe de la Orquesta Riverside, Jabuco del Conjunto Casino y el Conjunto de Roberto Faz y muchos otros. Triztemente existe el concepto en muchos de que si un percusionista de tumbadora no ejecuta como Tata Guines no es bueno verrdaderamente y esa es una nocion que hay que romper como tambien se debe romper con la ideologia de que si no se interpreta la musica cubana como Chapottin, Arsenio, Beny More o Adalberto Alvarez, Irakere y los Van Van el musico no sirve.

  • Damas y Caballeros sin duda alguna uno de los grandes maestros de la percusion cubana y mundial en lo que refiere a la tumbadora pero a pesar de lo que muchos establecen y dicen como el hubieron otros y quizas mas grandes. Cuba ha tenido por mucho tiempo un gran numero de percusionistas y interpretes de musica y todo instrumento que han pasado al olvido. Tata Guines fue uno de varios percusionistas en los 50 que incluyen a grandes como Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Ricardo Ferro, Guapacha padre...

  • Increible. Muchas gracias por compartir este video.

  • Beautiful, 5*****s.

  • graciassss ernie!!!

    5 strs

  • This is it  :):)

  • Beautiful !

  • gracias por compartir este video,me gusta mucho

    se a ensendido la candela,la CANDELA

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