Joey Altruda Presents: El Gran Fellove, by El Gran Fellove & Joey Altruda

Joey Altruda Presents: El Gran Fellove

by El Gran Fellove & Joey Altruda

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Paul Murphy Anything featuring the Legendary Chocolate Armenteros is always worth a shot. This forthcoming album and documentary film is just choc full of the Latin Grooves that we all dig.Check out the last track too. If only there was more like this Favorite track: Descarga Chocolate.

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1.	Cha Cha Cha de la Roquesta 04:36	buy track
2.	Descarga Chocolate 06:41	buy track
3.	Rareza del Siglo 03:32	buy track
4.	Mambo Matthias 03:49	buy track
5.	Para Bailar Mi Salsa 03:56	buy track
6.	Te Queiro Corazon 03:49	buy track
7.	Para Chango Te Levante 04:57	buy track
8.	Como Usted 02:23	buy track
9.	La Cita 06:01	buy track
10.	Cumbia-Lu 05:15	buy track
11.	El Santo Negro 03:43	buy track
12.	California Jam Session 11:29	buy track

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October 7th marks the release of Joey Altruda’s tour de force album, Joey Altruda Presents: El Gran Fellove, featuring legendary Cuban Jazz singer El Gran Fellove (pronounced Fay-oh-vay).

Fellove was a key figure in the development of a musical genre from Cuba known as Filin (phonetic for Feeling) in the 1940’s and 50’s. The style fused Afro-Cuban rhythms with the harmonic depth of BeBop, scat singing, and torch songs. Artists such as Omara Portuondo (of Buena Vista Social Club) , Chico O’Farrill, and Israel “Cachao” Lopez were main proponents of this experimental movement.

Altruda initially became aware of Fellove through actor Matt Dillon, who has been collecting Cuban records for the past 30 years. Together they were able to locate El Gran Fellove in Mexico City where he had been living since he left Cuba in 1955.

Recorded in the fall of 1999 in Mexico City, Joey Altruda Presents: El Gran Fellove, features a band of young trailblazing Cuban expat musicians (including a guest appearance by the iconic Cuban trumpeter Chocolate Armenteros) who had been Fellove’s band at the time. Considering he had not recorded anything since 1979, Fellove’s performances are exceptional.

“He was a one of a kind performer,” Altruda recalled. “His talent, charisma and originality were on the scale of Sammy Davis Jr., James Brown, or even Michael Jackson.”

What was initially a one-off album, with songs written by Altruda and Fellove, as well as some favorites of the artist, quickly expanded into a feature length documentary with Dillon filming the event and telling the story of the Filin movement and Fellove’s deep involvement in its creation. The production itself took many twists and turns, years passed by, and the album sat unreleased awaiting the completion of the film (which is currently being shopped for distribution).

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released October 7, 2023

Recorded at Pedro Infante Peerless Studio in Mexico City, October, 1999
Overdubs and final mix by Bob Wayne, Sunburst Studios, Culver City, Ca. 1999
1, Cha Cha Cha De La Roqueta (Levi Pragido Y Beque)
Personnel:
Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass, coro, arranger
Osmany Paredes - piano
Miguelito Valdez - congas
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Jose ‘Papo’ Rodriguez - bongos
Red Young - Hammond Organ
2. Descarga Chocolate (Altruda/Fellove)
Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass
Osmany Paredes - piano
Miguelito Valdez - congas
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Chocolate Armenteros - guest trumpet soloist
Alfredo Pino - trumpet
Antonio Perigo - trumpet
Coro: Celio Gonzalez, Laura Gonzalez, Celio Gonzalez Jr., Osmany Paredes, Miguelito Valdes
3. Rareza Del Siglo (Bebo Valdes)
Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal, coro
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass, guitar, arranger
Osmany Paredes - piano, coro
Miguelito Valdez - congas,
Jose ‘Papo’ Rodriguez - guiro
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Red Young - Hammond Organ
Craig Fundyga - vibraphone
4. Mambo Matthias (Altruda)
Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal, coro
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass, arranger
Osmany Paredes - piano
Miguelito Valdez - congas,
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales

Alfredo Pino - trumpet
Reynaldo Perez - flute

5. Para Bailar Mi Salsa (aka Rapido) (Francisco Fellove Valdes)
Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass
Osmany Paredes - piano, arranger
Miguelito Valdez - congas
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Alfredo Pino - trumpet
Antonio Perigo - trumpet
David González - tenor sax
Gonzalo Palacios - Trombone
Reynaldo Perez - flute
Coro: Celio Gonzalez, Laura Gonzalez, Celio Gonzalez Jr., Osmany Paredes, Miguelito Valdes
6. Te Quiero Corazon (Arturo Castro)
Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass, guitar, coro, arranger
Osmany Paredes - piano, coro
Miguelito Valdez - congas,
Jose ‘Papo’ Rodriguez - guiro
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Red Young - Hammond Organ
Craig Fundyga - vibraphone
7. Para Chango Te Levante (Francisco Fellove Valdes)
Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass
Osmany Paredes - piano, coro, arranger
Miguelito Valdez - congas
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Alfredo Pino - trumpet
Antonio Perigo - trumpet
David González - tenor sax
Gonzalo Palacios - Trombone
Reynaldo Perez - flute
Coro: Celio Gonzalez, Laura Gonzalez, Celio Gonzalez Jr., Osmany Paredes, Miguelito Valdes
8. Como Usted (Agustin Martinez)

Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass, guitar, coro, arranger
Osmany Paredes - piano
Miguelito Valdez - congas,
Jose ‘Papo’ Rodriguez - guiro
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Reynaldo Perez - flute
Red Young - Hammond Organ
Sharon Stanley - coro
9. La Cita (Altruda)
Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass, arranger
Osmany Paredes - piano, coro, arranger
Miguelito Valdez - congas, guiro
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Reynaldo Perez - flute
Red Young - Hammond Organ
Craig Fundyga - vibraphone
Harry Scorzo - violin 1, concertmaster
Michael Harrison - violin 2
Jimbo Ross - viola
Nancy Stein Ross - cello
Coro: Celio Gonzalez, Laura Gonzalez, Celio Gonzalez Jr., Osmany Paredes, Miguelito Valdes
10. Cumbia-Lu (Fellove)
Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass
Osmany Paredes - piano,
Miguelito Valdez - congas
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Coro: Celio Gonzalez, Laura Gonzalez, Celio Gonzalez Jr., Osmany Paredes, Miguelito Valdes
11. El Santo Negro (Altruda)
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass, guitar, arranger
Osmany Paredes - piano, coro
Miguelito Valdez - congas,
Jose ‘Papo’ Rodriguez - guiro
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Red Young - Hammond Organ

Craig Fundyga - vibraphone
Harry Scorzo - violin 1, concertmaster
Michael Harrison - violin 2
Jimbo Ross - viola
Nancy Stein Ross - cello

12. California Jam Session (Altruda/Fellove)
Francisco Fellove Valdes - vocal
Joey Altruda - acoustic bass, coro
Osmany Paredes - piano
Miguelito Valdez - congas
Celio Gonzalez Jr. - timbales
Chocolate Armenteros - guest trumpet soloist
Alfredo Pino - trumpet
Antonio Perigo - trumpet
Reynaldo Perez - flute

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