| LC control no. | no 98079164 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Armenteros, Chocolate |
| Variant(s) | Armenteros, Alfredo Armenteros, Elfredo Chocolate (Musician), 1928-2016 Chocolate, Monsieur, 1928-2016 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Cuba |
| Located | East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1928-04-04 |
| Death date | 2016-01-06 |
| Place of birth | Ranchuelo (Cuba) Las Villas (Cuba : Province) |
| Place of death | Mohegan Lake (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Latin jazz |
| Affiliation | Conjunto Los Astros Beny Moré's Big Band |
| Profession or occupation | Trumpet players Composers Singers Arrangers (Musicians) Jazz musicians |
| Special note | Not the same as: Chocolate, 1934- nr 96045066 percussionist; El Chocolate (no 97038274) flamenco singer |
| Found in | Santos, J. Machete [SR] p1995: insert (Chocolate; Alfredo Armenteros (Chocolate), in his late 60's, Cuban trumpet player; performed with Arsenio Rodriguez and Beny Moré in the late 1940s and 1950s) OCLC, Feb. 26, 1998: (hdgs.: Armenteros, Chocolate; Armenteros, Alfredo; usage: Elfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros; Monsieur Chocolate) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed November 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Armenteros, Alfredo "Chocolate"; horn player, composer, arranger, Afro-Cuban musician, singer; born 1928 in Santa Clara, Las Villas, Cuba; virtuoso player of the trumpet and the flügelhorn; the last surviving master of Cuban septeto music; member of Conjunto Los Astros (1949); joined innovative bandleader Arsenio Rodríguez, who used a style called Conjunto (1950s); was in charge of the brass section in Beny Moré's big band (1953-1956); performed in New York City during the late 1950s and was featured on singer Nat "King" Cole's album Cole Español (1958); relocated permanently to New York and quickly established himself as one of the city's top-rated Latin musicians (1960); Caribbean Cultural Center organized a concert in New York City (2002) which was a tribute to his fifty years in music) New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 14, 2016 (in obituary published Jan. 13: Chocolate Armenteros; b. Alfredo Armenteros, Apr. 4, 1928, Ranchuelo, Villa Clara province, Cuba; d. Jan. 6, Mohegan Lake, N.Y., aged 87; lived in East Harlem; Cuban trumpeter who was a standard-bearer of the Afro-Cuban musical tradition for almost seven decades) |
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