Trio Fattoruso

Trio Fattoruso: Trio Fattoruso

by Todd S. Jenkins
June 1, 2001

Enlightening Uruguayan fusion for the new millennium. In the late 50s, young brothers Hugo and Jorge Fattoruso played in Uruguayan street festivals with their washtub-bassist father Antonio. A few years later the brothers founded the popular Latin-rock band Los Shakers, and eventually the New York fusion band Opa, which combined the traditional candombe rhythms of their homeland with red-hot fusion chops. They also performed with Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira in the 70s; Hugo was the principal writer on Airto’s 1973 ...