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Tahna Running: Time for Love
by Terrell Kent Holmes
It's clear from the first note of Tahna Running's American debut CD, Time For Love, that she isn't your run-of-the-mill twenty-first century singer. Just as dipping one's foot into a pool doesn't qualify as swimming, putting a couple of jazz songs on a pop CD doesn't create a jazz singer. Time for Love is a full roster of standards that was recorded in one take, with no rehearsals. Most of the pieces are duets with Running and ...
Continue ReadingGrupo del Cuareim: Candombe
by Jack Bowers
Candombe, we’re told in the liner notes to this delightful album, is an Afro–Uruguayan rhythm that extends beyond music to embody a way of life, one that was lovingly portrayed in the paintings of Pedro Figari (1861–1938), to whose memory it is dedicated. The picture here is one of pulsating Latin rhythms underpinning lambent group vocals (with the lyrics to each song inscribed in Spanish in the booklet that accompanies the disc). As I’m hardly an expert on this particular ...
Continue ReadingTrio Fattoruso: Trio Fattoruso
by Todd S. Jenkins
Enlightening Uruguayan fusion for the new millennium. In the late 50s, young brothers Hugo and Jorge Fattoruso played in Uruguayan street festivals with their washtub-bassist father Antonio. A few years later the brothers founded the popular Latin-rock band Los Shakers, and eventually the New York fusion band Opa, which combined the traditional candombe rhythms of their homeland with red-hot fusion chops. They also performed with Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira in the 70s; Hugo was the principal writer on Airto’s 1973 ...
Continue ReadingHugo Fattoruso: Homework
by Dave Hughes
Producer Neil Weiss founded the Big Music label in order to release some live performances of legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius in various configurations. After the label was off the ground, he turned his attention to the south and released some noteworthy CDs by steel drummer Othello Molineaux, Brazilian Toninho Horta, and a nice collaboration between Romero Lubambo and Gil Goldstein. But Weiss’ latest passion, to which he has devoted the label’s attention for the time being, is the music of ...
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