Title: Oye Como Va
Artist: Tito Puente
Culture: Latin American Jazz (Parents were Puerto Rican Natives)
Instrumentation: Horns (trombone, trumpet, saxophone), flute, various Latin percussion instruments, vocals.
I thought about sharing this piece this week as I was searching for a location to do my fieldwork observations for this course. Since I am doing my fieldwork on Latin music, I found this recording from Tito Puente very appropriate. The first remembrance I have of this piece was performing it in a jazz ensemble in high school. Getting the opportunity to perform different musical styles and try to match the Latin style and cultural sounds they get in the original recordings was a great learning experience, even in high school. Many of the different classifications of instruments globally center around how a certain instrument is played, what sounds the instrument relates to, or what the particular instrument is made of. Something else that came to mind while I was listening to this piece and the different instruments that were used in the recording was; what about what style of music certain instruments are associated with? While there are various percussion instruments in many different types of music, there are many times when certain percussion instruments are used in a piece that it gives that piece a different cultural feel, such as Latin.
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