Definitions
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- noun music The
counterpoint inCuban salsa music.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Still, it was 69-year-old Valdés who displayed the most galvanizing virtuosity as he repeatedly unraveled prolix solos, marked by jolting harmonies and anchoring montuno patterns.
From Chuco Valdés mixes Cuban and American jazzy idioms at the Warner Theatre John Murph 2010
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Still, it was 69-year-old Valdés who displayed the most galvanizing virtuosity as he repeatedly unraveled prolix solos, marked by jolting harmonies and anchoring montuno patterns.
In concert: Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers at the Warner Theatre Click Track 2010
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I love Mexican music, almost as I enjoy a montuno.
Life of the Party: Latin Flair in Washington - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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For example, the opening track, "What You Had When You Knew You Believed," can be lambasted for smushing together an Afro-Cuban pulse and piano montuno figure with a more Brazilian rhythm circa Return To Forever Light as A Feather on the verses.
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For example, the opening track, "What You Had When You Knew You Believed," can be lambasted for smushing together an Afro-Cuban pulse and piano montuno figure with a more Brazilian rhythm circa Return To Forever Light as A Feather on the verses.
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All of this -- I'm starting to become delirious -- could be enlivened by a song from Pablo Milanes with a montuno refrain in the warm voice of Albita Rodriguez.
Yoani Sanchez: It's a Small Island, We Need to Talk to Each Other, I'll Put the Coffee On 2010
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De Marcos envisions a Cuba opened up to free enterprise, with a high tax burden and Scandinavian-style socialism, but where you can still get find a son montuno dance party in the street.
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More of a collective than a band, they are made up of a revolving cast of virtuosos and dedicated to reproducing the blaring big-band sound of son montuno and guarija from 1950s, often considered the Golden Age of Cuban music, when listeners from Paris to Tokyo waited for the newest cuts out of Havana.
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His songs drew their danceable rhythms from traditions within Colombia, including cumbia and porro, and from all around the Caribbean, with elements of Dominican merengue, Jamaican reggae, Martinican zouk, Trinidadian soca, Cuban son montuno and more.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
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The band played mostly in a tense, collective murmur until the end, when the pianist Jami Calabuig worked Cuban montuno figures into the bolero "Dos Gardenias," and the whole balance shifted: rhythm spoke up, and the music briefly and definitively became non-Andalusian.
NYT > Home Page By BEN RATLIFF 2011
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