Ignacio Piñeiro
photo: lezamian76 · cc by-sa 3.0 ↗Ignacio Piñeiro grew up singing rumba coros in the solares of Pueblo Nuevo before he ever touched the double bass, and he carried that street-corner call-and-response instinct into son when he founded the Septeto Nacional in 1927. As its bassist, director, and chief songwriter he wrote roughly 300 sones — "Échale Salsita" and "Suavecito" among them — and is generally credited with cementing the montuno call-and-response coda as a structural expectation of the genre rather than an occasional flourish.
Vera personally taught Piñeiro double bass and brought him into her Sexteto Occidente in 1926 — his very first son recordings, cut a year before he founded his own Septeto Nacional, were made as her sideman.
listen forYou can hear the same unhurried, walking bass-and-voice conversation from Vera's duo recordings carried straight into the bass lines Piñeiro anchors his own septeto's arrangements with a year or two later.