ANTOLOGÍA JOE CUBA & CHEO FELICIANO by Luisito Quintero

Presented by Terraza 7
Friday, March 10th, 2023 at 9:30 pm.

$15 Cover Charge for Mezzanine seating.

Featuring:

Angel Delgado Wazilao / Vocals
Giulianno Leon / Vocals
Carly Maldonado / Vibrafono
Jerry Madera / Bass
Silvano Monasterios / Piano
Pequeño Jhnny Rivero / Congas
Luisito Quintero / Timbal drums musical director

About Luisito Quintero:
Luisito Quintero was born in Caracas, Venezuela, where he was surrounded by Afro-Venezuelan and Afro-Cuban rhythm and music. His father, a respected percussionist in his native country, tutored and encouraged Luisito on timbales through his adolescent years. Luisito comes from a long line of outstanding musicians which includes his uncle, Carlos Nene Quintero, and cousin Robert Quintero.

Luisito studied at the Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela (The Symphonic Orchestra of Venezuela). He joined the popular music ensembles Grupo Guaco and Oscar D’Leon, where he enjoyed widespread worldwide exposure.

Luisito has worked and recorded with, The Rolling Stones, Vanessa Williams, Paul Simon, Santana, Jack De Johnette, David Sanborn, George Benson, Tommy LePuma, Joe Sampler, Bill Cosby, the late Celia Cruz and Tito Puente, Cachao, Eddie Palmieri, Marc Anthony, Gloria Estefan, Richard Bona, Ravi Coltrane, Claudia Acuna, Nathalie Cole, Diana Krall, Roy Agrove, Giovanni Hidalgo, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Spanish Harlem, Willie Colon, and countless other high-profile music acts.

Luisito Quintero brings all of this technical wizardry and musicality to his 2014 album 3rd Element, a self-effacing title that refers his role in an ensemble to a rhythm or one performing the third element—rhythm—in music. In reality, he is anything but that and in the first hearing of this Latin-Grammy nominated album his music literally leaps out of the blocks from the very first bars of “City View.” And from then on it is simply one musical explosion after the other.