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Sonido Isle

Vive Jazz

By Sonido Isle

Label: Tresero Productions
Released: 2006
Track listing: La Suerga; East of el Son, Wes del Tres; Taino; Vive Jazz; Heebaro; Tambora; Ornetteando; M&D; Green Mill Mambo; Dialectics of a Soplapote.

Sonido Isleno: Vive Jazz

by Budd Kopman
November 7, 2006

Vive Jazz is a prime example of what “Latin jazz" really means. Benjamin Lapidus, who leads the longstanding group Sonido Isleño, says, “I look for ways to put jazz into Latin music rather than making Latin music subordinate to jazz, which is the classic notion of Latin Jazz. I try to present musical situations that can ...

Vive Jazz

By Sonido Isle

Label: Tresero Productions
Released: 2005
Track listing: La Suegra; East Of El Son, Wes Del Tres; Taino; Vive Jazz; Heebaro; Tambora; Ornetteando; M&D; Green Mill Mambo; Dialectics Of A Soplapote.

Vive Jazz!

By Sonido Isle

Label: Tresero Productions
Released: 2005
Track listing: La Suegra; East of el Son, Wes del Tres; Taino; Vive Jazz; Heebaro; Tambora; Ornetteando; M&D; Green Mill Mambo; Dialectics of a Soplapote.

Sonido Isle: Vive Jazz!

by Celeste Sunderland
November 13, 2005

Changüi, a mix of Spanish guitar and African percussion, carries at its core a relentless churning. Toiling rhythms kick up bits of cultural history that fall in layers, like the overlapping generations from the old and the new country who made their way though the Caribbean to New York. Benjamin Lapidus' “East of el Son, Wes ...

Sonido Isle: Vive Jazz

by Mark F. Turner
October 8, 2005

While lines are continually being drawn and redrawn to describe old and new Latin jazz styles, Sonido Isleño has created its own definition on Vive Jazz. Led by Dr. Benjamin Lapidus, who earned a doctorate in music, the band plays a mix of jazz and Spanish-Caribbean folk music which is authentic and highly accessible. Lapidus states ...

Blue Tres

By Sonido Isle

Label: Tresero Productions
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Zen & The Art of Finding Gigs in NYC 2. El Ni

Sonido Isle: Blue Tres

by Javier AQ Ortiz
August 4, 2004

The latest release of Sonido Isleño wouldn't disappoint followers of this New York group and it's as good an intro to its distinctively economic musical style as any of its previous recordings. BenjamÃ-n Lapidus, whose main ax is the Cuban tres, is the group's leader and he has always endeavored to offer somewhat unfamiliar takes on ...