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Afromantra: Alignment

Read "Alignment" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


This New York City-based combo is a self-proclaimed new entry in the Latin jazz marketplace in the Big Apple, “mixing post bop with Afro-Cuban rhythms." After hearing this group's efforts, I think that it would be more at home at The Knitting Factory playing avant-garde jazz than at a Latin/world showcase like S.O.B.'s. Led by Chilean-Cuban drummer Alex Garcia, Afromantra shows that it can play competent Latin jazz but demonstrates a tendency to take it outside on more than a ...


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