"RITO Y GEOGRAFÍA DEL TOQUE" (VIDEO N° 2.)

MELCHOR DE MARCHENA : from the series Rito y Geografía del Cante ; Melchor Jiménez Torres « Melchor de Marchena » (Marchena, 1907 - Madrid, 1980) is shown in his family in Marchena, playing seguiriyas, being interviewed, accompanying Manolo Caracol and Beni de Cádiz in fandangos, playing tanguillos de Cádiz ; his son Enrique plays soleares and Melchor concludes them with a variation of his own.

ENRIQUE DE MELCHOR : from the programme Flamenco, in colour, presented by Fernando Quiñones. Enrique Jiménez Ramírez « Enrique de Melchor » (born Marchena 1950) with Luis (bass), Pedro (flute), Josele (flamenco guitar), Martín (bongos), in columbianas, in an interview, in bulerias in the tonality of tarantos, and in rondeñas. From another and earlier programme, also presented by Fernando Quiñones, we hear José Cobos and Paco Heredia (guitars) ; then follow an interview, a serrana, and rondeñas with the same Cobos and Heredia.

Comments : these are historic and moving images of the toque and speech of Melchor de Marchena, one of the greatest among accompanying guitar-players, and the one that La Niña de Los Peines, Manolo Caracol, Antonio Mairena, etc… preferred, to name only a few of those he accompanied. The video concludes with two programmes devoted to his son Enrique de Melchor : they can be dated 1974 and 1977 (for the one in colour) ; they belong to the launching of Enrique’s concert career, and we see him interpret various pieces of his first record as a soloist, La guitarra flamenca de Enrique de Melchor (1977).

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