Lucas van Merwijk - Van Merwijks Music Machine - Golden Cuban Classics
For the 2013 edition of Lucas van Merwijk's annual Music Machine project, Cuban master pianist Ramón Valle, Thelonious Monk Award winner Ilja Reijngoud on trombone...
For the 2013 edition of Lucas van Merwijk's annual Music Machine project, Cuban master pianist Ramón Valle, Thelonious Monk Award winner Ilja Reijngoud on trombone and basstalent Adinda Meertins joined him for the Golden Cuban Classics tour.
They played a selection of Cubas best known songs like La Comparsa, Tres Lindas Cubanas, A Mi Que, Mi Guarija Con Tumbao, Chan Chan. All put in a different perspective with this groups adventurous interpretations.
Bilongo - Lucas van Merwijk's Music Machine: Golden Cuban Classics
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Lucas van Merwijk about Bilongo:
"Bilongo or La Negra Tomassa by cuban Guillermo Rodriguez Fiffe was composed around the 1930s and is today still being played by virtually every beginning salsaband in the world. This version was arranged by Ilja Reijngoud who made some significant harmonic changes to the chord structure."
Bilongo was written Cuban named Guillermo Rodriguez Fiffe, who died in Miami in 1995. Fiffe was a member of the Trio Azul (formed by Rosendo Ruiz) when he wrote the song. The song was written around the early 1940s. Bilongo is about a man enslaved by a love potion a woman spikes his food and drink with. It has been recorded dozens of times since the early 1940s by everyone from Conjunto Casino to Tito Rodríguez to Eddie Palmieri to Ismael Rivera.
Lucas van Merwijk (Netherlands) - Drums
Ramon Valle (Cuba) - Piano
Adinda Meertins (Suriname) - Bass
Ilja Reijngoud (Netherlands) - Trombone
