MACHITO AND HIS AFRO CUBAN ORCHESTRA - Ay Que Mate

Machito (December 3, 1909 April 15, 1984), born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo in Havana, Cuba, was an influential Latin jazz musician. Machito played a huge role in the history of Latin jazz. His bands of the 1940s, especially the band named the Afro-Cubans, were among the first to fuse Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz improvisation. Machito was the front man, singer, conductor, and maraca player of the Afro-Cubans and its successors. Machito's brother-in-law Mario Bauza, the musical director, influenced Machito to hire jazz-oriented arrangers. The son of a cigar manufacturer, Machito became a professional musician in Cuba in his teens before he emigrated to America in 1937 as a vocalist with La Estrella Habanera. He worked with several Latin artists and orchestras in the late '30s, recording with the then-dominant Latin bandleader Xavier Cugat. After an earlier, aborted attempt to launch a band with Bauza, Machito founded the Afro-Cubans in 1940, taking on Bauza the following year as music director where he remained for 35 years. Machito's son Mario Grillo later took over the position. In 1983, he won a Grammy Award in the Best Latin Recording category for "Machito & His Salsa Big Band '82". More recently, the song "Mambo Mucho Mambo" has featured on the sound track for the game Grand Theft Auto Vice City. In 2005, the 1957 album Kenya was added to the list of albums in '1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'. Machito died during a concert in London, England in 1984, suffering a fatal stroke while playing Ronnie Scott's club.[citation needed] A documentary film by Carlo Ortiz, Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy, was released in 1987.

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[cesar311960]

creo que ya saben a que se refiere Machito con lo de "yerba" mate y cuando pide que le pasen tres libritas de fuerza blanca. Lo cual no tiene nada que ver con la tremenda calidad de su música , pero sí nos da una idea del ambiente de esa época.

[tonyqrock]

there is this song from Machito that clearly influence How DAY TRIPPER from the BEATLES sounds..! Does any body know the Name of that Song?..from a 40's album Freezelandia

[msjohncox]

I love Cuban music and I've been grooving on Tremendo Cumban for years. Any band named after the maraca player just has to be badass.

[ronpo3]

@alessandros00 tranquilo hermano, es bueno saber que eres cubano,para tambien saber que no hay mala intencion,pero te aseguro que machito nacio en la habana ,en uno de los barrios de centro habana!!saludos.

[alessandros00]

Pues tengo entendido todo lo contrario, de todas formas recurrire a una autoridad en el tema y aclarare lo que sea necesario. Ah...y yo no quiero quitar la nacionalidad a nadie, que para eso soy cubano tambien y orgulloso de los mios. Disculpen las faltas de ortografia, pero estoy escribiendo en un teclado ruso y no entiendo nada.

[ronpo3]

@alessandros00 señor usted esta mal,machito nacio en la habana 100 %ahora tambien quieren quitarle la ciudadania a machito???

[alessandros00]

Un apunte necesario; Machito no nació en Cuba, nació en Tampa Florida el 16 de Febrero de 1912, hijo de padre cubano y aunque no lo es de nacimiento, cubano en su formación musical, ya que fue en la isla donde aprendió lo que luego demostró en los Estados Unidos.

[lensbezel]

It has been an honor to enjoy the music spawned from Machito's Afro-Cuban fusion in the early 40's. Did he even realize then what his influence was going to do to music? My hat's off to a true visionary of soulful cutting edge music.

[alessandros00]

Este, sin duda alguna, junto al del maestro Mario Bauza, es el gen sonoro sobre el que se edifica todo eso que hoy por hoy se ha dado en denominar "salsa" que no es más que una reinterpretación en sentido estrictamente comercial, de lo que los monstruos anteriormente citados hicieron 4 décadas antes de que el nuevo ritmo sonase en los arrabales latinos de New York.

[ronpo3]

master sonero!!