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OBBINI TUMBAO Latin Groove

Obbini Tumbao Latin Groove

About Me

Winner of the 2006 Phoenix Best Music Poll, as “Best World Music Act,” Obbini Tumbao blens Afro-Cuban music and North American jazz and creates a body of work whose infectious rhythms will make you want to get up and dance! Rebecca Cline, jazz pianist from Athens, GA, and Ana Norgaard, also known as Anita Quinto, percussionist from Caracas, Venezuela, join forces to produce a compelling new sound with the wide range of musical influences they share. Obbini Tumbao’s repertoire includes a broad selection of beloved classics, as well as the band’s own compositions.
The band’s frontline of trombones and lead/back-up vocals is supported by a rhythm section of congas, timbales, bongos, piano and bass. With an all-star band, Obbini Tumbao has made regular appearances at venues such as the Blue Note’s Regattabar and Ryles Jazz Club. A video of the band is also featured at Martin Cohen’s website www.congahead.com.
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Member Since: 12/9/2006
Band Website: obbinitumbao.com
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Watch this video of Obbini Tumbao at LP, recorded in June of 2006!

Anita Quinto on timbales, Mauricio Herrera on congas, Marvin Diz on bongo, Pedro "Pedrito" Martinez on lead vocals, Damian Padro on backup vocals, Angel Subero, Conrad Herwig, Dana Leong and Joe Fiedler on trombones, Rebecca Cline on keyboards and Panagiotis Andreou on bass.

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Influences:

Los Van Van, Dimension Latina, Alfredo Rodriguez, Los Munequitos, Manolito y Su Trabuco, Oscar D'Leon, Juan Luis Guerra, Eddie Palmieri, Jimmy Bosch, Celia Cruz, Pacheco, Ray Barreto, Pupi y los que Son Son, Isaac Delgado... so many more!!!!


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2006 BEST MUSIC POLL WINNER!
OBBINI TUMBAO - BEST WORLD-MUSIC ACT

Okay, to get to the obvious: “obbini” is Yoruban for woman, and “tumbao” can apply to any swinging representation of the beat, from basslines to dancing or even walking. The band, created in September 2004, is the brainchild of keyboardist/composer Rebecca Cline and Venezuelan percussionist/composer Ana Norgaard, also known as Anita Quinto, who met at Berklee and have since, independently, developed impressive résumés. Cline, for one, has been working for the past few years with reedman/percussionist Hilary Noble in the local Afro-Cuban jazz band Enclave. But Obbini Tumbao is a chance for Cline and Norgaard to focus their Latin-jazz backgrounds specifically on dance music and on getting the crowd up and moving. “We realized we had a similar aesthetic, and yet we rarely worked together as sidemen,” recalls Cline, “so this was a chance to play together and play what we liked.” With a frontline of two trombones (for that “big, fat sound,” says Norgaard) plus piano, bass, timbales, congas, bongos, a lead vocalist (Manolo Mairena) and back-up vocals, the band mine the classic Afro-Cuban dance music of the Machito/mambo-kings era and ’70s New York salsa. The band cover tunes, but play Cline/Norgaard originals as well, and this weekend (May 20) they hit the studio. This Best Music Poll win is not a bad start for this young band.

-- Jon Garelick, The Phoenix, May 19, 2006.

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Record Label: Tumbadora Records
Type of Label: Indie