I was honored to help out with a special episode of The Clave Chronicles devoted to Tirso's contributions to La Charanga Habanera, Pachito Alonso, Los Que Son Son and timba in general. Among other things we focused on the art of musical quotation. The great timba arrangers use ideas from the entire history recorded music in the same way that hip-hop producers incorporate actual audio samples. In our exploration of El bla bla bla from Charanga Habanera, and Iala from Tirso's solo career, we found "samples" from samba and bossa nova, to Pablo Milanés' nueva trova, to Makuta folkloric music, santería songs, Walt Disney movie themes, and even Frederic Chopín. Tirso is no longer with us but his music lives on, even as Chopin's music lives on through Tirso's work. [Kevin Moore]

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I've been re-reading timba.com's many Tirso-inspired articles by Majela Serrano, Pepe Martínez, Michelle White and myself, fixing typos and links and finding myself amazed at the quantity and quality. 

Tirso with Charanga Habanera 1

Tirso with Charanga Habanera 2

Tirso with Pupy y Los Que Son Son

Tirso & Yulién Oviedo - Conversations in Timba

Recuerde que excelentes traducciones al español de Ilán Greenfield y otros están disponibles haciendo clic en el ícono de la bandera. 

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Tom is putting the finishing touches on the first of three galleries from this year's Monterery Jazz Festival.

John Nava

Christian McBride (bass), Naseem Alatrash (cello), Terence Blanchard (trumpet), Ben Wendel (sax)

Lionel Loueke and Gretchen Parlota

Tony Lindsey

John Clayton bass and Gerald Clayton

Scary Goldings featuring John Scofield, Ted Poor & Tal Wilkenfeld

Benny Green

Herbie Hancock, Lionel Loueke, Terence Blanchard

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Click here for the full gallery including two videos.

Telmary Díaz

Yissy García

Telmary Díaz and San Miguel Pérez

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