Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. music The counterpoint in Cuban salsa music.
Etymologies
- Spanish, literally "from the mountain", referring to rural music. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I love Mexican music, almost as I enjoy a montuno.”
Life of the Party: Latin Flair in Washington - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“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.”
“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.”
The Washington Post: From Chuco Valdés mixes Cuban and American jazzy idioms at the Warner Theatre
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Zawinul's Mambo" began in a terse, foraging mode; ventured into clattering, Cecil Taylor-esque atonality; interpolated a snatch of "Blue Rondo à la Turk"; swerved into a montuno; and ended in a butterfly flutter of tremolos.”
“Elaborately interlocking patterns on bass, acoustic guitar, tres, and hand percussion buoy the rich, passionate vocal melodies-sometimes composed, sometimes improvised-and the horn both complements the singers and steps out alone, juicing up the punchy, repetitive vamp of the obligatory montuno section with brash soloing.”
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