Comments on: ANDY BEY / “Drume Negrita” http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/21/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/ a conversation about black music Tue, 09 Jun 2020 01:25:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.25 By: Doug Ventura http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/21/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-383946 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:19:40 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/20/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-383946 I have been playing this Song for a number of years and was inspired by the version by the famous George Shearing Quintet. My band played it in The Guinea Gourmet in Southampton. U.K. We were joined by a Guatemalan who play the Toomba.It’s still in my repetoire.even now.

]]> By: Carmen Grenet http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/21/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-378825 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:16:43 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/20/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-378825 Lydia Garcia is right. This song belongs to my father, Ernesto, and not my uncle, Eliseo. Even though Eliseo was the better known author, my father has a few well known songs and Drume Negrita is one of them. As Charles mentions above, Cdlia Cruz sung it in the Perez Family movie as ell as in one of her CDs. And just as an FYI, it is not a “mamey”, it’s a “melon”. I don’t know how these singers have sung it, but I am 100% sure it’s a melon, since the song was constantly sung to me by my father. Check out Celia Cruz’ version.

]]> By: Yash http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/21/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-150593 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:59:06 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/20/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-150593 Hello! I found this blog when I looked for the song Drume Negrita because of a version I have — the only one I’ve heard — by Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban. It’s a very slow Afro-Cuban groove with great percussion. Instrumental with jazz guitars taking the melody. Album: Mambo Sinuendo. Enjoy!

]]> By: Jim McGehee http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/21/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-108275 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:48:19 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/20/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-108275 Thanks so much for putting this site together. I am a guitar student working on the “Dos Temas Populares” of Leo Brouwer, the major Cuban composer. ‘Cancion de Cuna” is of course the “Drume Negrita”, but harmonized in a somewhat different way. Mtume’s comment is spot on– I played it for several years, even in a concert, without really getting the feel of it. Your website convinced me to download a LOT of versions and listen more carefully–really this simple melody is the soul of Cuban music to me. The other theme in Brouwer’s work is “Ojos Brujos” which is not nearly as popular, but a good example of the older, pre-war style of Criollo.

And Omara Portuondo is my favorite version of all. She is a living legend.

]]> By: Lydia Garcia http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/21/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-75128 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:39:44 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/20/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-75128 Everything is perfect except that the author of Drume Negrita was not Eliseo Grenet but his brother Ernesto Grenet. I am sure of this, because they were both my great uncles.

          kalamu sez          

thank you very much for the correction. it has been changed in the article and your helpful comment has also been noted.

 

]]> By: Charles http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/21/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-51955 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:01:21 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/20/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-51955 I adore this melody. It has become my favorite. Imagine my joy and delight to discover 14 different versions on BOL. Although I initially heard this haunting melody from a Marissa Tomei film, “The Perez Family,” I had not made the connection to Andy Bey’s interpretation, which I purchased a few years after seeing the movie, until hearing it hear. How weird is that. And I consider myself such a music buff. Not paying attention here. Humbling isn’t it? I love all the featured versions and particularly think that Barretto’s is a creative wonder. It would be nice to get 14 on one disc. Any suggestions?

]]> By: Marian http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/21/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-42026 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:05:06 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2008/01/20/andy-bey-%e2%80%9cdrume-negrita%e2%80%9d/#comment-42026 Thanks again. I only recently ran upon Andy Bey. It’s great hearing different interpretations of the same song.

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