Jazz Articles

Antonio Arnedo: Colombia

by Simon Calle
April 12, 2002

Some kind of trip around Colombia through jazz, an indirect approach to the South American country’s folk music via contemporary music. These two sentences summarize the essence of an album in which Colombian saxophonist Antonio Arnedo meets some New York based musicians to create their unique version of cumbias, pasillos, and other rhythms from the Pacific and the Atlantic coasts, and the Andes region. Most of the songs are Arnedo’s compositions except for two traditional songs from local ...