Chappottin y Sus Estrellas | ar

Conjunto Chappottin is a Cuban Son band from Havana under the direction of the trumpet player, arranger und musical director Jesus Angel Chappotin Coto and the percussionis und singer Miguel Cuni jr.. The group is one of the traditional Son bands in Cuba with more than 50 years of experience. The founding of the band dates back to the 1940s. Its founder Arsenio Rodríguez was one the country's most renowned band leader with major influences on the Latin jazz and Salsa music of the next decades. With his Conjunto he was the first to add reed and brass instruments to...

An all-star line-up of some of contemporary Cuban music's best artists, Todos Estrellas represents the virtuosity and respect for tradition that typifies the Cuban music scene. Pianist Guillermo Rubalcaba, the father of Latin jazz phenomenon Gonzalo, and leader of Charanga Rubalcaba, lends a guest appearance, as does Pedro Clavo, best known as front-man for the supergroup Los Van Van. .

The Estrellas Cubanas Orchestra was founded in Havana, in 1956, led by eminent violinist, arranger and composer Félix Reina. Estrellas Cubanas is a musical group dedicated to disseminate Cuban popular music, whose repertoire includes the most diverse genres such as danzón, cha cha chá, bolero, bolero-cha and the "sipisón" rhythm that has characterized them for many years. This orchestra have regularly performed in Cuba and abroad, and has participated in countless Cuban and foreign radio and television programs, as well as in short films for the Cuban Institute of Art and Film Industry. (ICAIC) Estrellas Cubanas has recorded phonograms for...