NYC’s All-Star International Band

CHARANGA SOLEIL

featuring Special Guest

SUE MILLER, Flute

(Charanga del Norte, UK)

Friday, June 1, 2012

S.O.B.’S

204 Varick St. (at W. Houston St.)

New York, NY 10014

212.243.4940 * www.sobs.com

Doors 5pm * Sets at 8pm & 10pm

Happy Hour 5-7pm (Cocktail Seating available)

7pm Free Salsa Dance Lesson

Admission: Ladies Free/Men $10 before 7pm

$15 General Admission for All after 7pm

We’re thrilled to invite you to SOB’s After-Work Salsa Groove on Friday, June 1, 2012.

For this all-Salsa show, the band will cook up an irresistible stew of Caribbean and South American classics. Be prepared for a night of musical bliss and non-stop dancing with two full sets of sultry, scintillating selections of salsa caliente y picante!

Performing will be: Cathy Lopez and Goussy Celestin (lead vocals); Hadar Noiberg (flute, vocals, musical director); Lewis Kahn (violin, trombone); Junior Rivera (tres, vocals); William Ash (bass); Sergio Rivera (piano); John Berdeguer (percussion, vocals) and Diego Lopez (drums, timbales).

As an extra-special treat, the band will be joined by the exceptional flutist SUE MILLER  bandleader of Charanga del Norte out of Leeds, England!

So get your June started on the right foot (or the left). Pa’ que gozen!!! Enjoy!!!

Links:

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/CharangaSoleil

Band Page: https://www.reverbnation.com/charangasoleil

Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrXwrwjshAI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eExqe5YldGM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t1q4DSM3QA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD3m_F2ayXg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yVUBybn1MY

LEEDS UNIVERSITY CUBAN MUSIC BIG BAND

CLOTH WORKERS’ CONCERT HALL, SCHOOL OF MUSIC

20 April 2012 at 6pm

BARANDANGA (son montuno) c. Armando Peraza, arr. S. Miller

A son montuno big band style from our man in Havana, Mongo Santamaria

EL SON NO HA MUERTO (son) c. Israel López ‘Cachao’

Played here in a smaller son-style format featuring guitar, tres, maracas and bongos this song says that the Cuban son style has not died and is played just as well now as  it was in 1926.

LA FLAUTA DE JOSÉ (descarga) c. J. Fajardo, arr. S. Miller

A descarga or ‘jam’ style piece from one of the kings of charanga flute José Fajardo.

MARIA CRISTINA (son guaracha) c. Nico Saquito (b.1902), arr. S. Miller

This is a guaracha, a Cuban son with humorous lyrics – it tells the story of a hen-pecked husband Manuel who will do anything for love except bathe in the sea, a river or a bath – ‘Maria Cristina me quiere gobernar’ he protests…

LOLA CATULA (pachanga) c. Eduardo Davidson, arr. S. Miller

Played here in charanga format with flute, violins, piano, bass, congas, guiro, timbales and vocals, this song is about an exhibition dancer Lola who drives men wild with her pachanga dancing – que barbaridad!

LAGRIMAS NEGRAS (son) c. Miguel Matamoros (1894 – 1971) , arr. S. Miller

Miguel Matamoros is one of Cuba’s most famous composers of Son. A singer and guitarist he ran his own Trio Matamoros for many years and ‘Lagrimas Negras’ and ‘Son de la Loma’ are among his most well known works.

CANDELA (son) c. Faustino Oramas

A Buena Vista Social Club number played in son-style format featuring the school of music’s guitarists. Fautino Oramas ‘El Guayabero’ is renowned for his double-entendre lyrics: ‘Margarita que me quemo, yo quiero seguir gozando, la candela me está llevando’ (I’m burning up Margarita, I like it and can’t stop, the fire is taking me). If you think this song is about a real fire you’re missing some hidden meanings!

BODAS DE ORO (danzón-chá) c. Electo Rosell ‘Chepín’ (b.1907), arr.S. Miller

Electo Rosell, composer, bandleader and violinist, composed many danzones such as ‘Bodas de Oro’ and ‘La Reina Isabel’. There are still musicians today in Santiago de Cuba like the trumpeter Paisan Inaudis who performed in the band he founded in 1932 ‘Orquesta Chepín Chovén’.'Bodas de Oro’ (Golden Wedding) is here in danzón-chá style, based on an Orquesta Aragón recording from the 1950s which mixes the Danzón cinquillo rhythm with the later chachachá style.

QUIEREME, BESAME (son montuno) c. Antonio Castro, arr.S. Miller

This cheeky number, meaning ‘love me, kiss me,’ was originally performed in the fifties by Manuel ‘Puntillita’ Licea y Orquesta Cosmopolitan, a Cuban-style jazz band. A star in the 1950s Puntillita later sang with Buena Vista Social Club in the 1990s.

Programme Notes: Sue Miller, Leeds 2012

Biographical Note:

Dr Sue Miller is a flute player and musical director of the UK’s only charanga orchestra ‘Charanga del Norte’ which she founded in 1998. She completed her PhD in 2011 on flute improvisation in Cuban charanga performance (with a specific focus on the work of Richard Egües and Orquesta Aragón). In April 2000 and 2001 Sue studied charanga flute improvisation with Richard Egües from Orquesta Aragón in Havana and has since continued her research into Cuban flute improvisation, performing with veteran charanga musicians from the traditional charanga orquestas in Havana (Estrellas Cubanas, Charanga de Oro, Orquesta Sublime and Orquesta Barbarito Díez) and New York (Orquesta Broadway). Her book Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation will be published by Scarecrow Press in late 2012. She is currently visiting lecturer in music at the University of Leeds (UK).

THE LEEDS UNIVERSITY CUBAN MUSIC BIG BAND

Piano: Sam Wilson

Bass: Leo Charlton

Guitars: Holly Carter, Joe Gummerson, Thom Jones, Stephen Wilkinson

Tres: Matt Hurst

Timbales: Kerrie Smith (3,5, 6, 8) and Alex Ridge (1, 4, 9)

Congas: Brendan Bache (2,3,4,5,8), Kerrie Smith (9), Joe Rowe (7), Max Newton (1)

Bongos: Joe Rowe and Marek Tymkow

Guiro: Max Newton

Maracas: Brendan Bache, Maria Toboso

Vocals: Daisy Lewis, Maria Toboso, Martha Julian

Flute: Sue Miller

Alto Saxes: Ashleigh Forbes, Sarah Tyler

Tenor Sax: Dom Pusey

Trumpet: Will Blackstone

Trombone: Charlotte Woods

Violins: Millie Heaven, Ben Skerritt, Rupert Stone

Here’s an on- stage live recording from my Edirol recorder of me and Jack soloing together at our Instituto Cervantes gig in Manchester on 29 February – just click on the orange arrow to hear us in action!

Shoot you sir?

@Instituto Cervantes, Manchester 6.30pm Talk plus gig FREE EVENT

Shoot You Sir?

Instituto Cervantes, Manchester

Wednesday 25 January 2012

Talk 1:

The Danzón Cinquillo Rhythm – in Cuba, Mexico, Argentina and the US

The five-beat danzón rhythm can be found not only in Cuban danzón and contradanza musical styles but also in ragtime, stride, boogie woogie and Argentinean Tango. In this talk Dr Sue Miller traces the development of this rhythm from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Cuban dance styles of contradanza and danzón in the orquesta típicas and charangas, to its appearance in ragtime, blues and tango forms. Also forming part of classical repertoire from George Bizet to  Ernesto Lecuona, this rhythm never truly disappears  – it just migrates!

Concert:

Charanguita del Norte: a small charanga orquesta, the baby sister of Charanga del Norte, the band perform and demonstrate the Cuban danzón, danzón-chá, mambo and chachachá styles.

@ Instituto Cervantes, Manchester 29 February 2012

Tromgangsters

In 2007 Sue Miller was invited to New York by Eddy Zervigón (the bandleader and flute player of Orquesta Broadway) to perform with him at the annual Mamoncillo Festival. Before taking to the stage Sue saw Eddy play with Manny Oquendo’s Conjunto Libre and was impressed by his soloing against a five-strong trombone section. Always a fan of Eddie Palmieri’s trombone and flute-led Salsa band ‘La Perfecta’ Sue decided to set up something similar here in the UK inspired by the two Eddys. The band features the Peace Artist’s Vicki Beere and Casa Latina veterans on trombones plus musicians from the Charanga del Norte stable such as Ana-Luisa Muñoz del Valle on vocals, Simon Siddol on piano and rising young stars of the salsa scene Jack McCarthy on timbales and Helen Curtis on congas.

Expect hard driving grooves and melodic soloing designed for dancers and Latin music lovers alike. Influenced by Eddie Palmieri’s La Perfecta, Mongo Santamaria and the legendary Cuban Descargas expect high energy riffing, high-faluting solos and songs about dancing, love, deception and revelry.

CONTACT

http://www.charangasue.com

s.miller@charangasue.com or call 07957 244 167