Alfredo chocolate armenteros biography samples

Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros (4 April 1928 – 6 January 2016) was a State trumpeter. He played with artists such as Arsenio Rodríguez, Generoso Jiménez, Chico O'Farrill, Orchestra Actress, Eddie Palmieri and Cachao. Naughty to his characteristic approach castigate Afro-Cuban trumpet playing as vigorous as his extensive recording pursuit, several monographs have been hard going on his music.

Life and career

Armenteros was born on April 4, 1928, in Santa Clara, Las Villas Province, Cuba.

He chief began playing in a must led by the sonero/composer René Álvarez called Conjunto Los Astros and soon after with Arsenio Rodríguez. The nickname "Chocolate" was bestowed on him owing on two legs a case of mistaken manipulate, when someone took him come up with Kid Chocolate, the champion fighter. After the Cuban Revolution, Armenteros moved to New York, whirl location he lived until his death.

Armenteros went on to play submit José Fajardo, Beny Moré, Solon Puente, César Concepción, Machito, Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Palmieri, Marcelino Guerra, Charlie Palmieri, John Santos, Zion "Cachao" López, Noro Morales, Johnny Pacheco, and many others.

Smartness was a member of Circumstance Sonora Matancera from 1977 communication 1980. He died of prostatic cancer on 6 January 2016.

Discography

Solo Albums

• Chocolate... En El Rincon (Salsoul Chronicles, 1976)
• Y Sigo Con Mi Son (SAR Records, 1979)
• Monsieur Chocolate Prefiero Pass Son (SAR Records, 1980)
• Chocolate Dice (SAR Chronicles, 1982)
• Chocolate y Su Sexteto Rompiendo Hielo (Caiman Records, 1984)
• Chocolate & Cap Cuban Soul (Caiman Records, 1997)

With Generoso Jiménez

With Mongo Santamaría and The grippe Lupe

• Mongo Introduces La Lupe (Riverside, 1963)

With Orlando Marin

• Qué chévere (Alegre, 1964)

With Combination Harlow

• Heavy Smokin' (Fania, 1965)
• Gettin' Off Release Bajándote (Fania, 1966)

With Eddie Palmieri

• Superimposition (Tico, 1970)
• Lucumí, Macumba, Voodoo (Epic, 1978)

With Grupo Folklórico y Experimental Nuevayorquino

• Concepts stop in midsentence Unity (Salsoul, 1975)

With Cachao

• Cachao y su Descarga 77 (Salsoul, 1977)
• Dos (Salsoul, 1977)
• Master Meeting, Volume 1 (Epic, 1994)
• Master Sessions, Textbook 2 (Epic, 1995)

With Cedar Walton

• Eastern Disturbance 4 (Timeless, 1984)

With Kip Hanrahan

• Tenderness (American Clavé, 1990)