Video: Cuba - + MP3's: Manley "Piri" López Herrera de "Los Chinitos de la Corea"

'Manley "Piri" López Herrera'

This post has five videos featuring "Piri" playing quinto en rumba.

I like his "rhythmic sensibility" which gives him his own unique "style" of playing quinto.

Also refreshing is that he plays "nobody else's style" but his own.

He plays quinto in the first four videos, in the fifth video he plays Caja (tumbador) then gets up to let another drummer play, then returns to play quinto.

The first three videos, he plays with his Father who is sitting next to him.
'Juan De Dios' sings in several of them.

For more in depth information about 'Manley "Piri" López Herrera' and "Los Chinitos", you can view 'Patrice Banchereau's' excellent web page/s here.

And also here at the apozo82.blogspot: "Música Viva!"

Aditionally, I converted the sound from each video into MP3's, you can download all five in one file. ((here))

1. Piri and his Father
("less is more")



2. Piri y su Padre
Canta: 'Juan De Dios'

3. Piri y su Padre

Canta: 'Juan De Dios'

4. Piri en casa
Canta: 'Juan De Dios'

5. Piri caja y quinto
(no, dis 'aint no Namm convention video)

Video: Cuba - "Grupo Raices Profundas" de Juan De Dios 1978 - Cuba

"Grupo Raices Profundas" Director; 'Juan De Dios'
1978 - La Habana, Cuba

'Juan De Dios'
singing a Rumba Columbia

'Juan De Dios'
dancing a Rumba Columbia

Maximo Gustavo Valdes y Juan De Dios N.Y.C.

Maximo Gustavo Valdes y Juan De Dios 

Photo May 15th 2012 in N.Y.C.

(Maximo wearing "the Eyeglasses")

 El Dia Que Me Quieres / Ingrato Corazón
Juan De Dios cantando
(late 70's en vivo, Londres, U.K.)

Video: Cuba - Los Papines, Tata Guines, Papiosco, "Fariñas", Geovanni Del Pino, "El Goyo", Juan De Dios, Pascual Herrera, Zanguile - Cuba

Los Papines, 'Tata Guines, "Papiosco", Pedro "Fariñas" Celestino, Matías Giovanni Del Pino, Juan De Dios, Gregorio "El Goyo" Hernández, *Pascual Herrera (*he co-wrote "Mi Quinto" with Ricardo Abreu a.k.a. Papin) and Ricardo Abreu's' tio (uncle), "Sanguili" dancing with the hat.

Ricardo Abreu y 'Tata' Güines.
R.I.P.

**** Ibayé bayé tonu ****

Video: Cuba - Rumba de cajón, en casa de Amado Dedeu

Filmed by Barry Cox.
With Amado de Jesús Dedeu Hernández, Inés Carbonell, Dainy Grisel Cárdenas, Miguel Chappottín, Lázaro Rizo, Guillermo Triana, Juan de Dios, Raúl Gonzáles Brito "Laly", Amado de Jesús Dedeu García "Amadito"

Amaranto Y Su Banda De Cardenas - 2 LPs 1954-'57 /1961-'62 Cuba

"Amaranto En Varadero"
Amaranto Y Su Orq. Copacabana
Vinyl LP most likely 1954-'57

Above is his first band when they were called "Amaranto Y Su Orq. Copacabana".

The cover shows Amaranto & his band on a boat docked somewhere in Varadero.

12. Alli Se Acabo

"Amaranto Y Su Banda De Cardenas"
Vinyl LP - 1961, '62

Amaranto Fernández, pianist and arranger led a "Cuban Jazz" big band based out of Cárdenas, a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba.
('San Juan de Dios de Cárdenas')

He formed his first band 'Copacabana' in 1954.
He changed the name in 1960 to 'Amaranto Y Su Banda Gigante'.
His first LP on the then young E.G.R.E.M. record label titled "Amaranto Y Su Banda De Cardenas" is an incredibly swinging recording, showing not only his piano playing, but his great arranging skill with that fat ballsy ever-present thick baritone sax sound.

On this LP Amaranto does killer arrangements of "Dame Un Chance" as a Son Montuno by Electo Rosell ("Chepin") , "La Tierra Del Rico Son" as a Guapacha by 'Felix Cardenas',
"Es Rico y sabrosón" as a Son Montuno, "Voy Monte Adentro" as a son Montuno by 'Pedro "Peruchin" Justiz' and "Chiqui-Chiqui" done as a Mozambique, the last two with flute solos.
His Danzónes on this are also superb.
Vocals by lead singer, Bebo Suau.

His early LP's are rare and obscure.
I have two of them, one on Egrem and the one before it on the Bravo label.
The LP above recently sold on Ebay for $200.00
He has a 2003 CD out on the Envidia label, but I've never heard it.
However being familiar with Envidia, I probably wouldn't like it.
Sadly... I found a video on YouTube of him at the age of 81 with a band playing in someplace that looked like it was for tourists in Cuba.

Ripped from original Egrem vinyl @ 320.
Pops and clicks "painstakingly" removed/cleaned with Goldwave V.5

Dame Un Chance

La Tierra Del Rico Son

Es Rico y sabrosón

Voy Monte Adentro

Chiqui-Chiqui

Linda Luly

"Sabor Cubano Con Amaranto y Su Orq. Son"
His last project, unfortunately not very good in my opinion.

Rumba Rarities / Rarezas - Cuba

Two CDs put together as a compilation.
They are all from my personal music collection and were compiled for me seven years ago by 'Barry Cox', the N.Y.C. based singer, author of the "Cancionero Rumbero" song book.

"Vol. 1"
Graphic design: Barry Cox

4. Juventude Del Presente
Silvestre Mendez

10. Porque No Quieres
Carlos Embale y Roberto Maza "El Vive Bien"

11. Soñando Guaguancó
Roberto Maza "El Vive Bien" y Carlos Embale

13. La China Linda
"El Vive Bien" 'Roberto Maza

14. Virgencita de mi camino
Los Parragueños 1960's

15. Si en vano te juré
Los Parragueños 1960's

"Vol. II"
Graphic design: Barry Cox

1. En Este Ritmo

2. El Dia Que Me Quieres / Ingrato Corazón
Cantan: Juan De Dios

6. Yambú-Guaguancó-Columbia

Drummers and singers from Grupo Manguare

9. Chan Fan Ko
(the Chinese Changó)
'Los Papines' with 'Pascual Herrera' vocal

In memoriam: Gregório Hernández, "El Goyo"

Gregório Hernández, "El Goyo"

Nov 17, 1936 - Jan 8, 2012
*** Iba ayé ba yé t'orún ***

Filmed by Barry Cox in La Habana, Cuba.
Guaguancó with Santa Cruz - El Negro -
El Goyo - Miguel Angel Messa Cruz - Juan De Dios
and Mario Jauregui playing a true sized "Requinto".