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Walter Lang Trio: Eurasia

Read "Eurasia" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 4, 2009

German pianist Walter Lang is big in Japan, with Eurasia being the sixth CD released there on the M&I Records label. A listen to any of these discs reveals something for the discerning taste of the Japanese jazz fan. Lang records mostly in the trio format--piano, bass and drums--and his approach in this setting can be said to fall in the interactive Bill Evans Trio mode, with a graceful lyricism, a supple use of touch, and an exquisite ...

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Arturo O'Farrill Trio: Cumana

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
November 20, 2003

Trio CDs recorded for the Japanese market tend to involve straight-ahead treatments of classic material; while their focus on melody makes them highly accessible, they're neither simplistic nor boring. This is a Latin version of that formula, with the piano chair occupied by the excellent Arturo O'Farrill, son of legendary Cuban composer Chico and heir to his Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band (his impressive 1999 Milestone debut was appropriately called “Bloodlines"). O'Farrill's playing is vibrant and fluid, merging Latin rhythms and ...