Sambroso All Stars present the Buena Vista.
Sambroso All Stars is a seven-piece band lead by one of the UK’s premier percussionists – and the man behind Sambroso Sambroso, the renowned London-based Cuban party tribe – Oreste Noda. Oreste was born and raised in Matanzas, Cuba.
Having started his musical life as a trombone player he found his calling in the congas, where his unique abilities saw him established as the go-to conguero for a wealth of Cuban acts including the Buena Vista Social Club’s Ibrahim Ferrer and other top-notch bands gracing the swanky hotels of beachside Varadero.
As word of his talents spread, Noda was snapped up for a combined 2004 UK tour by South African jazz icon Hugh Masekela and the redoubtable Jazz Jamaica All-Stars, which featured such luminaries as Gary Crosby,
Denys Baptiste and the Mercury-nominated Soweto Kinch. Co-opted as a salient member of award-winning rude boys Ska Cubano, Noda proceeded to tour the world for the next eight years, soaking up influences, cooking up ideas and winning new friends along the way.
As word of his talents spread, Noda was snapped up for a combined 2004 UK tour by South African jazz icon Hugh Masekela and the redoubtable Jazz Jamaica All Stars, which featured such luminaries as Gary Crosby, Denys Baptiste and the Mercury-nominated Soweto Kinch. Co-opted as a salient member of award-winning rude boys Ska Cubano, Noda proceeded to tour the world for the next eight years, soaking up influences, cooking up ideas and winning new friends along the way.
“We’re a tribe of Cuban musicians in London representing live music,” he says in his good-natured way. “From the roots of rumba to salsa, timba or any Cuban fusion.
We’re about giving energy and happiness through music, to those who want to join us on our journey.”
Oreste ‘Sambroso’ Noda, then.
From strong Cuban roots, big things grow.
