Que Viva Changó |
By a strange turn of events we ended up celebrating the 4th of December at my place tonight. We had planned originally to record the guide melodics on Thursday the 6th, but one thing led to another an...
Posted by 4 De Diciembre on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:29:00 PST |
Happy Birthday to Us! |
Happy Birthday To Us,Happy Birthday To Us,Happy Birthday To UUUU---UUUUSSSSSS!Happy Birthday To us!(To the rhythm of Feliz Cumpleanos)Olé!Is it Christmas yet?...
Posted by 4 De Diciembre on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:59:00 PST |
A Confluence of Circumstances |
Eric Alfonso is a Cuban timbalero of several decades experience. For quite a while now, several members of our salsa band have been getting about a bit and Dan and Nathan, timbales players themselves,...
Posted by 4 De Diciembre on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:48:00 PST |
13th October 2007 Leeds Charity Salsa Ball @The Met Hotel (Part 2) |
Nicolai called Cuatro de Diciembre to stage at 10pm. And he gave us a hell of an introduction; one which bore all the warmth of his character, and which drew from his years of experience as a public s...
Posted by 4 De Diciembre on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:42:00 PST |
Leeds Charity Salsa Ball |
Well, it's been over a week since the gig and now that the dust (and germs, sort of) have settled I thought I'd write a bit about it.First of all, thanks to the organisers for putting on the event, it...
Posted by 4 De Diciembre on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:40:00 PST |
13th October 2007 Leeds Charity Salsa Ball @The Met Hotel (Part 1) |
It was the beginning of summer 2007, I was lounging around in Cubana on a Saturday afternoon. Nicolai had just finished his lessons and we were catching up, as we normally do after an age of not havin...
Posted by 4 De Diciembre on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:38:00 PST |
Big Band Musical Arrangements? |
We've recently started separating our practices into 2 groups: rhythmic secion and melodic section. So once a week we work out our different arrangements separately and then the other practice we all ...
Posted by 4 De Diciembre on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:50:00 PST |
Gigs |
As you may have noticed from our front page of 4 De Diciembre or from our Myspace page, we have a pitiful lack of gigs coming up. To be honest, we haven't been veyr proactive in searching for gigs due...
Posted by 4 De Diciembre on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:49:00 PST |
Recording 4 De Diciembre. |
Harris and his Bongo skills.Over the week-end I had the privilege to recording our Bongo player Harris.He's not a regular player during practises but has been with the band for quite a few years now a...
Posted by 4 De Diciembre on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:25:00 PST |
Blast from the past |
I was looking through some old photographs a few weeks ago and unearthed a couple from one of our recording sessions at Yellow Arch, way back in May 2004. I thought I'd upload them for your viewing pl...
Posted by 4 De Diciembre on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:22:00 PST |
