MORAÍTO CHICO & FERNANDO DE LA MORENA
SONIQUETE DE JEREZ – GIPSY SWING FROM JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA
Moraíto Chico guitar, Fernando de la Morena vocals, Manuel Soto Carrasco, Manuel Pantoja Carpio “Chicharito”’ palmas
‘It Don’t Mean a Thing , If It Ain’t Got That Swing’; Paco de Lucia rewrote this Duke Ellington standard into the flamenco classic ‘Si no tienes soniquete, ¡pa’qué te metes!’ If there is one guitar player able to capture soniquete, or swing, with his strings then it’s Moraíto Chico, the alias of Manuel Moreno Junquera (1956). Chico is without a doubt the most important and versatile guitarist to have come from the Jerez school of flamenco. He was born in a gipsy family with a long tradition in guitar playing. He grew up on the patios in the heart Jerez ‘s gipsy quarter Santiago, feeding on the flamenco rhythms that he mixes so masterfully today. Together with Fernando de La Morena, one of Jerez’s great veteran singers,and accompanied by the clapping hands of ‘El Bo’ and ‘Chicaro’, Moraito lets the Jerez rhythms swing and shine in this second edition of the concert series Intermezzo Flamenco.
http://world.radio6.nl/2010/05/11/flamenco-biennale-intermezzo-moraito-chico/