El cuarto de Tula
An extended descarga in which Ochoa, Ferrer and Puntillita improvise lyrics.
Buena Vista Social Club, from Buena Vista Social Club (1997)
- Released
- 1997
- Album
- Buena Vista Social Club
El cuarto de Tula had long been a favorite of Eliades Ochoa's Cuarteto Patria. The Buena Vista recording is an extended descarga, a Cuban jam, in which Ibrahim Ferrer and Manuel "Puntillita" Licea join Ochoa to improvise lyrics laced with sexual innuendo in the Santiago tradition. Barbarito Torres plays a laúd solo, and the timbales were played by Julienne Oviedo Sánchez, who was thirteen. The song was used in the 2001 film Training Day.
It runs 7:27 on the album and 8:00 at Carnegie Hall on 1 July 1998, and it is one of the songs in the Wenders film.
On stage
- 1998-07-01, Carnegie Hall, New York Eight minutes on the live album.
More songs by Buena Vista Social Club
Chan Chan, Dos gardenias, Veinte años, Candela, Buena Vista Social Club
Sources
- El Cuarto de Tula, PBS
- Buena Vista Social Club (album), Wikipedia
- Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall, Wikipedia