MOVIE
Maite Hontelé is a Dutch trumpet player, specialized in son and salsa, who ended up in Colombia, South America in 2008 and became a superstar there within a few years. She tours with celebrities such as Rubén Blades and has her own band, while she remains virtually unknown in the Netherlands.
She has lived in the Colombian city of Medellín for more than ten years and, with her trumpet – usually a male instrument in Colombia – and as a band leader, she is a role model for countless women. But the enormous fame ultimately becomes too much for her. When her fifth album ‘Cuba Linda’ is released in 2018, Hontelé decides to return to the Netherlands.
Documentary maker Marlou van den Berge – who previously also made a VPRO documentary about pianist Ramon Valle – followed Maite Hontelé for years on her glorious journey through the Colombian concert halls. She will also be there when the musician decides to stop her music career completely in 2020.
INTERVIEW
In between the film and live concert, there will be a live interview with the film director and two musicians.
CONCERT
When Maite Hontelé decided this year to resume her music career she did so with Cuban/Dutch jazz pianist Ramon Valle.
Valle (Holguin, Cuba) is classically trained and became an established name in the Cuban and Latin American jazz scene at an early age. He is not a pianist who plays Latin Jazz or Cuban Jazz, his work rather shows influences from Jarret-Corea-Hancock. He makes pure, contemporary jazz, his touch is exceptionally rhythmic and his Cuban roots are evident.
Valle has lived in the Netherlands since 1997 and has performed at North Sea Jazz several times, including with Roy Hargrove, Marcus Miller and Chucho Valdes. And now in Paradox in Tilburg with Maite Hontelé on flugelhorn.