El Cuarto de Tula
has long been a
favorite with Eliades
Ochoa’s group
Cuarteto Patria. This
extended descarga
(Cuban jam style)
features the great
soneros Ibrahim Ferrer
and Manuel ‘Puntillita’
Licea joining Eliades
in improvising lyrics
laced with sexual
innuendo in the
Santiago tradition.
The extraordinary solo
on the laoud (a small,
twelve string
instrument similar to
a lute) is by
Barbarito Torres, the
finest player in
Havana.
The timbales are played
by the 13 year old phenomenon, Julienne Oviedo Sánchez,
already a veteran of some of Cuba’s most celebrated
modern big bands.
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