Hundred Year Old Cuban MusicClick on the box above and you should hear "Jamon con Yuca," made at the first recording session in Havana in 1907. I certainly don't have an original of this; I got it from a reissue CD, which I listened to it many times, and even played it on my radio show, before I realized that something was wrong with the recording. Certain rhythm patterns weren't making sense and it was behaving to my trained ear like a recording that was playing too slowly.
So I pitched it up to what seems natural for the rhythm and pitch of the instruments. The source CD transfer was also very muddy and I wanted as much of the drums as I could get. In the process I got back a little noise but I want to hear the violin.
100 year old Cuban music, like what LMG himself might have heard. I think this recording should cause us to REALLY RECONSIDER the relationship of Cuban music to early jazz, not just the jazz of the Bebop era.
What Happened to the Archive?Hmm - it does appear to be missing now. Three years of posts - gone. A friend of mine was trying to find a way to fix this blog and save the archive. I think him for his efforts, but it appears blogger has decided for both of us. Oh well.
Uncle Dave Lewis