MADURO
Live at the Casa de la Trova - Cuba

RIENCD 05


Oriente
Cuba

 

Maduro's musical roots are deep in the eastern Cuban Son and Trova music traditions. But his style is unmistakably his own, marked by a free rhythmic feeling and by the use of complicated, impressionistic chords, punctuated by disharmonious notes. Like all great improvisational players, his music always brings something original to tradition. In these ways, Maduro's music has become a lasting influence on Santiago's younger generation of musicians.
Despite his success, Maduro's fame never extended outside of the province of Oriente, where he was born and died. He always followed a different drummer: unlike other top musicians, he never wanted to go to Havana, let alone to the USA. He never cut an album, nor let his compositions be recorded. Unconcerned with money or a luxurious lifestyle, he was most likely to be found touring the villages of eastern Cuba accompanied by bands he had thrown together in Santiago.
He died at Santiago de Cuba in April 24, 1996
The numbers released on this album arose from two sessions during the summers of 1988 und 1990.

Recorded live at the Casa de la Trova, Santiago de Cuba,
July 1988 (5, 6, 8-10) and November 1990 (1-4, 7, 11, 12)