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Gifts
Alex Acuña
Label: Le Coq Records
Released: 2022
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Tracks
In Town; Postlude; Mercy Mercy; Amandote; Chuncho; Divina; One Finger Snap; Regalo; Melancia; Aletin Aletun.
Personnel
Alex Acuña
percussion
Otmaro Ruiz
pianoRamon Stagnaro
guitar
John Peña
bassLorenzo Ferrero
saxophoneMichael Stever
trumpetGiovanna Clayton
celloDiana Acuńa
vocalsRegina Acuna
vocalsAlbum Description
Former Weather Report Drummer Alex Acuña to Release Gifts, His First Album as a Leader in 17 Years. Gifts Reunites Acuña with Members of The Unknowns, Runs a Stylistic Gamut from Funk to Fusion, Soul-Jazz, Ambient, Latin and Brazilian Flavored Jazz. The incredible journey of Alex Acuña has seen the renowned drummer-percussionist travel from his small rural hometown in Peru to being a first-call session drummer in the country’s capital city, Lima, then touring the United States with mambo king Pérez Prado, gigging in Las Vegas with Elvis Presley and ultimately touring internationally with Weather Report, the premiere fusion band of the mid-1970s. An in-demand Los Angeles session musician for decades, he has appeared on nearly 900 studio records and movie soundtracks while also releasing half a dozen albums under his own name.
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