Tito Duarte

Tito Duarte (La Habana, Cuba, 1946 – Córdoba, Spain, 2003) was son of composer and conductor , who played with stars as or , 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 , band founded by 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: , , , , ,…

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