Lagrimas Negras Project
( An Independent Documentary Film )

 

Albita video preview

The main theme of the Lagrimas Negras Project is separation, on an individual level and as a group. The project is based on a classic Cuban song from the 30's - Lagrimas Negras, composed by Miguel Matamoros.

Currently, there are 150 versions of this song on iTunes. We are producing seven new versions and a documentary film.

Albita Rodríguez (born in Havana, Cuba), known in her music career simply as Albita, is a Grammy-winning Cuban singer and composer. Her parents were well-known Cuban folk music singers, which ensured Albita's exposure to the world of Cuban traditional music from her early years.

Albita's website: albitaonline.com
 

 
Mofeta & Friends
The history of Afro-Cuban music in Miami.

Cuba and Jazz video preview

Night in Tunisia video preview
 
Drummer/percussionist Diego "Mofeta" Iborra was born on February 4, 1919, in Camajuaní--the hometown of bongosero Marcelo El Blanco and vocalists Bobby Carcassés and Rolando Laserie, among other great Cuban musicians. IDiego's father was a flutist who worked with Havana's Symphonic Orchestra, after the Iborra family moved to the island's capital. Although the violin was Diego's first instrument, he quickly switched to the drumset, making his percussive debut with René Touzet's big band at Havana's Montmartre.

"n the 1940s, Diego enjoyed the best of two musical worlds as he traveled back and forth between Havana and New York, along with his fellow Cuban drummer/percussionist, the late Guillermo "Bill" Alvarez. In addition to the drumset, Diego and Guillermo had mastered various Cuban percussion instruments, while adhering to the idea of combining criollo hand drumming with U.S. jazz. It appears that they were the first Cuban percussionists to record with such bebop icons as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dizzy" Latin Beat Magazine spie.