Tito Duarte

Tito Duarte (La Habana, Cuba, 1946 – Córdoba, Spain, 2003) was son of composer and conductor Ernesto Duarte Brito, who played with stars as Unknown Artist (ID: 129658) or Celia Cruz, apart from working on RCA records. The family exiled from Cuba after Castro's revolution, going to Spain.

Tito Duarte played percussion, saxes, flutes, keyboards and bass guitar, apart from being a very good arranger as he showed on Barrabas, band founded by Fernando Arbex in 1971. Later he played with jazz musicians, backing Carles Benavent, Josep Mas "Kitflus", Jorge Pardo, Max Sunyer, Vlady Bas. He also played as session man: Aguaviva, Guadalquivir, Joan Manuel Serrat, Alameda, Radio Futura,…

He recorded some solo albums: "Tito Duarte" (1979), a dance jazz album, or "Un directo... al sabor (1981), a more commercial release.