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Some on this forum have already mentioned this new CD from The Latin Heartbeat and given it some well deserved kudos. Great album with Julio Salgado on lead vocals. It's out there and getting some notice... available from all the usual suspects ( iTunes, Amazon, CDBABY.COM, descarga.com, Casa Latina, etc ). I hope you check it out and enjoy the music.

Last night I was fortunate to play the official CD release party at SOB's in New York City. It was swingin'!

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groovetpt said:
A video from the gig at SOBs.

Ni De Aqui Ni De Alla.

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That's the phrase my wife uses to describe Latinos in the U.S. At first when she met me she thought I and others like me were full fledged gringos. then when she came to the US she understood that we're only barely accepted here, and only barely accepted in latin America, so....
 
@bullit

How do you like the song and arrangement?

Can you figure out what key it's in? ( hint: not an easy key to play in )
 
lemmee see,,,,

I have it in Eb minor, but I could be wrong. seems to switch over to Ab minor later on

arrangement is pretty slick...lots of efectos
 
That's funny. The gospel keyboard cats I talk with adore Ab. And Gb and Eb and Db. The joke among them is "don't you know black people only play the black keys"?

I'm currently studying my way through herbie Hancock`s solo on chameleon, which is in Ab. Of course, these days I play the chromatone, so all keys have the same shape :)

Remind me again which keys brass players like? Besides Bb?
 
groovetpt said:
Some on this forum have already mentioned this new CD from The Latin Heartbeat and given it some well deserved kudos. Great album with Julio Salgado on lead vocals. It's out there and getting some notice... available from all the usual suspects ( iTunes, Amazon, CDBABY.COM, descarga.com, Casa Latina, etc ). I hope you check it out and enjoy the music.

Last night I was fortunate to play the official CD release party at SOB's in New York City. It was swingin'!

sobs_zps6204050c.jpg
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Oh, yeah! I've definitely been giving this a lot of spins!
 
BullitproofSoul said:
That's funny. The gospel keyboard cats I talk with adore Ab. And Gb and Eb and Db. The joke among them is "don't you know black people only play the black keys"?
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That makes perfect sense. The cat who wrote the arrangement is a piano player. Us trumpet players can always tell when the arrangement is from a piano player... lol too many notes and some weird ass keys for us... one exception of course is the great Papo Lucca who actually plays trumpet very well and understands the instrument and how to write for it -- he has a few trumpets in his band, you know.

I'm currently studying my way through herbie Hancock`s solo on chameleon, which is in Ab. Of course, these days I play the chromatone, so all keys have the same shape :)
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Do they make a chromatone trumpet? If so, I want one. Then I could play everything in Bb or F... ha!

Remind me again which keys brass players like? Besides Bb?
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I just gave you one, F. Ab is nice. I'm talking concert key so your F is my G and your Ab is my Bb ( remember that crazy pain in the tush thing called transposition? )... Of course we play what we have to play and do what we have to do and practice like crazy in all the keys... but we do have our preferences. :)

Ok, all this is topic for another thread, but it was fun...
 
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groovetpt said:
A video from the gig at SOBs.

Latinos Ni De Aqui Ni De Alla.

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i like this song so much. i like how the lyrics sing about something relevant to many people today (latinos or not) and at the same time, a topic rarely sung about

and its just a bumpin' track. an all time classic i think.
Salsa bands, more like this please :)
 
matty said:
and its just a bumpin' track. an all time classic i think.
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Wow it's funny you say that. At a rehearsal for the SOB's gig Will Mendoza ( leader of Latin Heartbeat and composer of this song ) was telling us about developing this song and working with the arranger... the arranger said something like "we're gonna make a hit with this song". Will paused and said, "I don't want a hit. I want a classic".

He also told the story of how this song came about when he was visiting his birth town of Caguas, Puerto Rico a couple of years ago, having lunch in a restaurant... the waitress asked him where he's from and Will said "I'm from here", and she said, "no, you're not from here". And that's how the song was born... Will was born in Caguas but was raised in the lower east side of Manhattan ( aka Loisaida ) and eventually ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.
 
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