Descarga Catalog
Peter Watrous - 2006
SONANDO
Tres (CD Origin Records)
Category: LATIN JAZZ; LATIN JAZZ
***EditorsPick: Latin music meets
Steve Reich, on the first track,
where the motoric elements in both musics meet and are accentuated. The
rest of the music here, played by a Seattle based Latin jazz group,
blends all sorts of stuff, including cuban religious percussion, played
by Michael Spiro among others, with a jazz and descarga
sensibility. The band does some cool stuff, including harmonizing
the dianas on "Donde Estabas Anoche," the piece by Ignacio
Piñiero. Fred Hoadley plays the tres on the tunes; he moves to
piano for Abdullah Ibrahim's "Bombella," a tune that brings out the
Tyner/Coltrane in the band; the band sounds pretty comfortable doing it
too. There's a sweetness to the whole project that is its main strength.
Highly Recommended. (Peter Watrous)
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