Frank Emilio: A Cuban Piano Player
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FRANK EMILIO y su QUINTETO INSTRUMENTAL DE MÚSICA MODERNA
Last year the music of Frank Emilio, recorded in 1960, was reissued on a Casa de Música CD by Foreign Media Music. It contains, as the cover reads, music recorded in Havana Cuba 1959-1960 by Frank Emilio y su Cuban Jazz Combo. In fact it is a reissue of the Egrem LP Color y ritmo recorded by Frank Emilio y su Quinteto instrumental de Música Moderna. The members of this quintet were Frank Emilio at the piano, Orlando "Papito" Hernandez on the bass, Guillermo Barreto on drums, Tata Guines on congas and Gustavo Tamayo on the güiro ( a notched hollowed-out gourd ).
Frank Emilio Flynn was born in Havana, Cuba April 1921 and passed away August 2001. He learned to play the piano at the age of ten and won an amateur contest in the city Havana. When he was twelve years old he became blind, but continued to play the piano and even learned to read music using braille. During the 1930s he earned a living as a music teacher, but at night he played the piano with his band on radio programs. During the 1940s he he worked with great Cuban musicians like Antonio Romeu, José "King" Mendez and the Ignacio Pineiro Septeto Nacional.
In the 1950s US musicians discovered Cuba as a musical paradise; I told you about that in a previous blog about Arturo Sandoval. The CD Algo Bueno, that's in the spotlights today, was made by his Quinteto instrumental de Música Moderna, which would contain later. members like Chucho Valdes, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito d'Rivera and would be suceeded as Irakere. Frank Emilio also had a group titled Los Amigos.
I love to share with you a perfomance of Frank Emilio Flynn's Los Amigos de Cuba.
In 1998 he released, 77 years old, the Blue Note album Ancestral Reflections, which brought him back into the spotlights again. His tune Dinga Dongo Dunga became famous and is to be found on a compilation released after his death ( He passed away in Havana, Cuba on August 2001) on an album Jazz Cubano / Amor & Piano.
I found a small fragment of this tune including some contemporaries discussing this tune.
This album, with its wonderful cover, is a great remembrance to this great master of Cuban jazz.
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KEEPSWINGING.BLOGSPOT.COM 1000This daily Keep Swinging blog will reach its 1000th contribution within ten days. To celebrate this I love to repost some old interesting and favorite blogs. Please inform me what your favorite contribution is. I love to give a great Frank Rosolino album released by Lonehill Jazz to one of you, so please, send me your favorite. I you haven't done it - do it today. This week's your last chance. Send it to: keepswinging@live.nl
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
START: To the latest blog Naar de laatste blog
ENGLISH ( Naar het Nederlands-Vlaamse deel met een nummer, waarvan we titel, woorden en akkoorden zoeken.)
FRANK EMILIO y su QUINTETO INSTRUMENTAL DE MÚSICA MODERNA
Last year the music of Frank Emilio, recorded in 1960, was reissued on a Casa de Música CD by Foreign Media Music. It contains, as the cover reads, music recorded in Havana Cuba 1959-1960 by Frank Emilio y su Cuban Jazz Combo. In fact it is a reissue of the Egrem LP Color y ritmo recorded by Frank Emilio y su Quinteto instrumental de Música Moderna. The members of this quintet were Frank Emilio at the piano, Orlando "Papito" Hernandez on the bass, Guillermo Barreto on drums, Tata Guines on congas and Gustavo Tamayo on the güiro ( a notched hollowed-out gourd ).
Frank Emilio Flynn was born in Havana, Cuba April 1921 and passed away August 2001. He learned to play the piano at the age of ten and won an amateur contest in the city Havana. When he was twelve years old he became blind, but continued to play the piano and even learned to read music using braille. During the 1930s he earned a living as a music teacher, but at night he played the piano with his band on radio programs. During the 1940s he he worked with great Cuban musicians like Antonio Romeu, José "King" Mendez and the Ignacio Pineiro Septeto Nacional.
In the 1950s US musicians discovered Cuba as a musical paradise; I told you about that in a previous blog about Arturo Sandoval. The CD Algo Bueno, that's in the spotlights today, was made by his Quinteto instrumental de Música Moderna, which would contain later. members like Chucho Valdes, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito d'Rivera and would be suceeded as Irakere. Frank Emilio also had a group titled Los Amigos.
I love to share with you a perfomance of Frank Emilio Flynn's Los Amigos de Cuba.
In 1998 he released, 77 years old, the Blue Note album Ancestral Reflections, which brought him back into the spotlights again. His tune Dinga Dongo Dunga became famous and is to be found on a compilation released after his death ( He passed away in Havana, Cuba on August 2001) on an album Jazz Cubano / Amor & Piano.
I found a small fragment of this tune including some contemporaries discussing this tune.
This album, with its wonderful cover, is a great remembrance to this great master of Cuban jazz.
KEEPSWINGING.BLOGSPOT.COM 1000
KEEPSWINGING.BLOGSPOT.COM 1000This daily Keep Swinging blog will reach its 1000th contribution within ten days. To celebrate this I love to repost some old interesting and favorite blogs. Please inform me what your favorite contribution is. I love to give a great Frank Rosolino album released by Lonehill Jazz to one of you, so please, send me your favorite. I you haven't done it - do it today. This week's your last chance. Send it to: keepswinging@live.nl
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
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Nederlands ( To the English part with a contribution about the Cuban piano player Frank Emilio. )
GEVRAAGD: TITEL - WOORDEN EN AKKOORDEN VAN DIT NUMMER?Nederlands ( To the English part with a contribution about the Cuban piano player Frank Emilio. )
Een paar weken geleden plaatste ik een bijdrage getiteld Tin Pan Alley Cats: A Censored Eleven Cartoon . Deze tekenfilm, uit begin jaren veertig, die een persiflage bevatte van de Amerikaanse jazzpianist Thomas Fats Waller, fascineerde me.
Dit filmpje is één van de elf tekenfilms, die in de jaren zestig verboden werden op de Amerikaanse televisie omdat ze elementen bevatten die hardnekkige vooroordelen over Afrikaanse Amerikanen en jazzmuziek uitbeelden en rassenongelijkheid bevorderden. De film wil Jan de Loodgieter, juist die .... met de pet, waarschuwen voor de slechte invloed van drank, vrouwen en jazzmuziek. De muziek in de film wordt gespeeld door een uitstekend orkest. Een lezer van deze blog, Peter, vroeg zich af hoe het snel gespeelde nummer heet en of daarvan de akkoorden en woorden beshikbaar zijn, want hij wil het op zijn repertoire zetten. Volgens mij is dat het nummer Nagasaki, maar wie het beter weet en de woorden en akkoorden van het nummer heeft, wordt gevraagd zich te melden. Het nummer vind je tussen 2 minuut 40 en 4 minuut 30.
Als je informatie over dit nummer hebt, hoort Peter dit graag.
Hans Koert - keepswinging@live.nl
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Binnen nu en tien dagen, bereikt deze dagelijkse Keep Swinging blog haar 1000ste bijdrage. Stuur me de titel van jouw favoriete blog en win een Lonehill Jazz CD heruitgave van een paar mooie Frank Rosolino platen uit de jaren vijftig. Als je dat nog niet gedaan hebt - weet dat deze week je laatste kans is. Kies jouw favoriete bijdrage gekozen uit de 990 voorgangers en stuur mij de titel of link toe: keepswinging@live.nl
Binnen nu en tien dagen, bereikt deze dagelijkse Keep Swinging blog haar 1000ste bijdrage. Stuur me de titel van jouw favoriete blog en win een Lonehill Jazz CD heruitgave van een paar mooie Frank Rosolino platen uit de jaren vijftig. Als je dat nog niet gedaan hebt - weet dat deze week je laatste kans is. Kies jouw favoriete bijdrage gekozen uit de 990 voorgangers en stuur mij de titel of link toe: keepswinging@live.nl
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