Jazz Articles about Gold Coast

Gold Coast: Latitudes

by Dave Hughes
August 1, 2001

This set of ten tunes aspires to carry you off to some tropical beach with its light, breezy rhythms and the mellow timbres of acoustic guitar, marimba, and percussion. The liner notes call it “a musical journey that will take you to many locales,” and this is true. There isn’t any one particular style of Caribbean music that predominates here, it’s just sort of generic beach. Nevertheless, the program fulfills its ambitions pretty well. On “Dunes,” the flavor is African, ...